<p><strong><em>'I knew something like this would happen...I told Edward this man looked like murder when he walked in!'</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em>Stories of Crime ' Detection Volume Twelve</em> contains a novel and a novella.</p><p class="ql-align-justify"></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong>She Got What She Asked For</strong><em> </em>Up-and-coming architect Nick Abott married Claire, a beautiful but avaricious woman. The marriage is an unhappy one and Nick becomes a penniless drunk. &nbsp;He goes to visit Claire to discuss a divorce, but is hit from behind on her doorstep.&nbsp;When Nick awakens inside the apartment, Claire is dead and his fingerprints are on pistol laying beside her body.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is down to an unconventional detective team to prove Nick innocent by fair means or foul. </p><p class="ql-align-justify"></p><p><strong>The Lonely Man </strong><em>&nbsp;</em>Actress Deborah Vail is driving from London to Garnock, Scotland to visit a cousin. &nbsp;A flat tyre on a lonely stretch of road leads her to the secluded home of a mysterious artist, Andrew Garvin, a man shunned by a whole community who suspect him of murdering his wife.&nbsp;Deborah rapidly finds herself in a mystery of prejudice and intrigue.</p><p class="ql-align-justify"></p><p class="ql-align-justify"></p><p><strong>JAMES JACK RONALD </strong>(1905-1972) was a prolific writer of pulp fiction, mystery stories and dramatic novels. Raised in Glasgow, Ronald moved to Chicago aged seventeen to 'earn his fortune', later returning to the UK to pursue a writing career. His early works were serializations and short stories syndicated in newspapers and magazines around the world. Ronald wrote under a number of pseudonyms, including Michael Crombie, Kirk Wales, Peter Gale, Mark Ellison and Kenneth Streeter among others. Several books were adapted into films, including <em>Murder in the Family </em>(1938), <em>The Witness Vanishes </em>(1939), and <em>The Suspect </em>(1944).</p>