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Leslie Ford. False to Any Man

A SCRAWLED NOTE WAS THE BEGINNING OF MURDER . .

FALSE TO ANY MAN

By LESLIE FORD

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My dearest dearest—I can’t bear what you said to me tonight, but I can’t bear to live without . . .

That was all. A few simple lines. A simple suicide note? That’s what everyone thought, at first, including those two super-sleuths Colonel Primrose and Mrs. Latham. But it turned out to be murder—and the desperate killer returned to strike again . . .

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“He was so frightfully conscientious, and he wouldn’t stay on the Court and let the others do his work. Anyway, the doctors all said he’d die, he couldn’t live six months.—That was just when the Doyles came back from New York and bought our old home across the street.”

She gave a strange little laugh.

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