For fans of Knives Out, a book that embodies all the things we love about Agatha Christie—a haunted manor house, estranged relatives a will, and a murder— set in modern-day India, and the first in a series from author RV Raman. Aging and wheelchair-bound patriarch Bhaskar Fernandez has finally reclaimed his family property after a bitter legal battle, and now wants to reunite his aggrieved relatives. So, he invites them to remote Greybrooke Manor in the misty Nilgiris —a mansion that has played host to several sudden deaths; a colonial edifice that stands alone in a valley that is said to be haunted by the ghost of an Englishman. But Bhaskar has other, more practical problems to deal with. He knows that his family is waiting for him to die to regain the family fortune, and to safeguard himself against violence during the house party, he writes two conflicting wills. Which one of them comes into force depends on how he dies. Into this tinderbox, he brings Harith...

Had he THE WILL TO KILL? IT BEGAN WITH THIS:“I came out of the blackout standing in our bedroom . . . standing there in the moonlight with the scissors glinting in my hand . . . standing over the body of Marie and looking at the place where those same scissors had cut her throat . . .” IT ENDED WITH:Women of the streets mutilated and slain, kids scared of their shadows, people staying off the streets and huddling behind doors and windows—a city gripped by fear! AND ALWAYS THE QUESTION: “WAS I THE MANIAC KILLER?” IT’S ROBERT BLOCH’S LATEST! An ACE BOOK Original Novel Never Before Published

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Taking a midnight stroll along the Hudson River, Mike Hammer gets more than he bargained for: a partial corpse on an ice floe. The body is that of a butler who spent the last years of his life working for a millionaire—also now deceased—and his notoriously privileged children.Were both master and servant murdered? Captain Pat Chambers thinks so. But to prove it Hammer must travel to upstate New York to investigate the dead man's family, all of whom have a motive for murder, and one of whom who has a taste for it.