Murder In False-Face

Description for MURDER IN FALSE-FACE by Richard Lockridge:

It all starts when Joan Mead receives an unexpected telephone call on the afternoon of March tenth...

Joan mead looks more like a model than a member of the New York bar. But when she finds herself the number one suspect in a brutal murder, the young attorney discovers she needs every bit of her legal skill.

Joan accepts an invitation to spend the weekend with her widowed aunt, who had been a famous columnist before she retired. Arriving at the lovely old Connecticut home, she finds her aunt, Ruth Mead Carson, dead from a shotgun blast at close range. From the window, Joan spies a curious-looking man approaching the house carrying a spade and a pickaxe. Why? Joan doesn't want to find out. She runs for her life and the chase is on---with the police tagging her as the culprit---and the killer tagging her as his next victim.

MURDER IN FALSE-FACE is an edge-of-the-seat thriller. The chase leads from the quiet Connecticut countryside to the crowded winding streets of Greenwich Village. And keeps the reader guessing every step of the way.