The wayward beauty who comes back to her old hometown to titillate her ex-boyfriend (now a married lawyer) and to blackmail her ex-husband is ripe bait for murder. And murder is just what she gets. Suspicion falls heaviest on the old flame and not on the discarded husband—for very obvious reasons. At the time of the lady's demise, the lawyer was out of his legal mind, befuddled by a number of those potent concoctions known around the cocktail table as gimlets. In the second place, he was squarely on the scene of the crime....Fortunately, his wife believes him. When her husband is carted off to jail, he sets out to prove him innocent.The Irrepressible Peccadillo is written with all Fletcher Flora's customary verve and sophistication. To the gripping story of a man on the spot, he adds plenty of wit, sex, and humor—and comes up with a puzzle that will keep the reader guessing to the last page. This special bonus edition includes a classic short story by...

A story of lesbian love. Two Damned Souls: Lisa and Avery...saw in each other a chance for escape. And so, in a frantic flight for normality, they were married. But they cold not know the terrible depths into which their union would plunge them.

The Golden Age of Mystery & Crime MEGAPACK Series focuses on unjustly forgotten mystery writers from the 1960s and before. Take Fletcher Flora, for example. Beginning in the 1950s, Flora wrote a string of 20 great novels -- mysteries, suspense, plus three pseudonymously as “Ellery Queen.” He published more than 160 short stories. This volume collects 26 of classic mystery and crime tales for your reading pleasure.