The Island Of Intrigue

Nancy and Bess are vacationing in Greece at the same time as Joe and Frank Hardy are there pursuing a renegade American operative suspected of stealing missiles. Together, they set off on a spine-tingling Greek odyssey across a sea of duplicity, danger, and imminent destruction.

Sabrina Dunsweeney, who has a tendency toward hypochondria and very bad cooking, moves to tiny, isolated Comico Island to recover from a cancer scare and the sudden loss of her mother. There she meets a man who tells her about Walk-the-Plank Wrightly, a pirate who died 200 years ago and who has recently made a cameo reappearance in Sabrina's rose garden. Attending a campaign fund-raising tea party at the prestigious Tittletott House, Sabrina finds the stoic islanders clutching monstrous neon teapots as they stampede toward the lone bathroom, spurred on by an unexpected ingredient in the chocolate scones. Then Sabrina finds the ghost—now truly dead in her rose garden and is drawn into a maze of deadly island intrigue. Wendy Howell Mills lives on a tropical island off the southwest coast of Florida. Island Intrigue is her third book and first in a new series. www.wendyhowellmills.com

Excerpt from Island of Intrigue I am Maida Waring, the only child of Lawrence Waring, whose millions date from the day when, rag ged and half starving, he had struck oil on his home stead land. I was nearly seven then, growing up like a wild thing in the Open air, my only playmates the three Smith children from the next homestead. Mr. Smith and Daddy were great friends and often Mrs. Smith would come over to Give a hand with the wash, or knead the big batch of bread, - work too heavy for my frail little mother's slender hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Against the backdrop of a grisly Palm Beach murder scene, art gallery owner and private detective Maxie Roberts sets out to catch a killer. Palm Beach art gallery owner Maxie Roberts has just come from an ugly murder scene. Not only has his wealthy socialite client been brutally slain in the boudoir of her Palm Beach mansion, but Maxie suspects the paintings she hired him to appraise are forgeries. When he discovers that the fake paintings were substituted for the real ones, Maxie is determined to find the original art works – and catch himself a forger and a murderer. And with Maxie’s obsessive detective work poised to douse the flames of his relationship with sexy attorney Kathy Kramer, the heroic sleuth is drawn into a high-stakes murder case that threatens not only his fortune, but his very life. With an intimate knowledge of Palm Beach – a town where nothing is as it appears to be – author Robert Mykle styles a suspenseful, fast-moving tale in the style of Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown.”