The Scarlet Imperial

By: Dorothy B. Hughes

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Synopsis: Handed a mysterious package, a woman finds herself caught in a deadly gameHer name is not Eliza Williams. A fashionable young woman with a taste for adventurous men, she made the mistake of falling in love with Towner Clay—a New York City playboy whose international jetsetting conceals dangerous secrets. On Towner&’s behalf, she has spent six months pretending to be Eliza Williams, a dowdy Midtown secretary. It&’s dull work until the day Gavin Keane, a blue-eyed associate of Towner&’s, leaves her with a mysterious package. Eliza understands that protecting it is a question of life and death. When he comes to pick up the package that night, Gavin is followed, and he shoots the man to protect the parcel&’s secret. With blood on her carpet and a mystery on her hands, the woman who is not Eliza will have to act quickly to survive.