This Strange Adventure

This Strange Adventure
published by Dell Books
Copyright 1971

Wedded to Terror

Young and beautiful Missie Colfax was

willing to keep her bargain with Wesley

Dexter when she married this worldly

older man and came to live in his magnifi-

cent mansion. She would do anything to

escape the poverty and want of her youth -

even be a wife to a man she barely knew.

Missie could not suspect the twisted

torment behind the icy arrogance of her

bridegroom ... nor realize until too late the

horror that awaited her in the hands of a

man bent on making her the victim of

a strange and terrible vengeance ...

MARY ROBERTS

RINEHART

whose bestseller novels have thrilled

millions the world over, has in This Strange

Adventure created a truly haunting story

of romance and danger.

Hate to break it to you Missie, but I'm not hearing anything all that out of the norm here. I mean aren't Wedded and Terror synonymous with one another?

Every wife must play her part in her husband's strange and terrible vengeance, it's in the job description. Sure, you marry yourself an older man he's bound to have more baggage, but that is the price you pay for that sweet situation. Remember, a lot of ladies would put up with a lot of shit to have themselves digs like that.

And if your husband isn't caressing you with the hands of a man bent on vengeance, you're just not doing your job right.

Alibi for Isabel

Alibi for Isabel by Mary Roberts Rinehart

published by Dell Books
Copyright 1971

THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN

To lovely young Sally Fielding, beautiful
and sophisticated Isabel Eaton had seemed
a kind of savior, rescuing Sally from misery
and deprivation, and opening up a whole
new life of happiness and fulfillment. (and plunging necklines)

But now all that was to be paid for. Now
Isabel had summoned Sally back to the old
Eaton mansion that held such horror-filled
memories of the past ... and Sally was
faced with the agonizing choice between
losing the man she passionately loved, or
becoming the helpless instrument of
Isabel's evil ... (is it really that hard a decision?)

MARY ROBERTS
RINEHART

whose bestselling novels have thrilled mil-
lions the world over, has in these spellbind-
ing tales of romance and intrigue created
one of her most memorable triumphs.

Apparently Mary Roberts Rinehart originally published this one in 1941 under its original name of Test Blackout. It was again published in Good Housekeeping Magazine under the name The Time is Ten. Again there is no cover art credit or signature on the art but check out her figure!