Crime Does Not Pay #96

Herbert and Marie Atwell maintain a loving façade for their friends, but behind closed doors their marriage is a battleground of suspicion and hatred—and when Marie discovers her husband's murderous plot, she sets a trap of her own. In "Behind the Curtains," a carefully constructed scheme of poison and deception unravels in ways neither spouse anticipated, leaving both to face the consequences of their poisoned union.

When retired businessman James Thurlow spots a criminal operation on Diablo Key during an approaching hurricane, he calls Sheriff Adoniram Rhodes with crucial information—but the line goes dead before he can name the mastermind. Now the sheriff must race against the storm to reach Thurlow's house and uncover which of the four suspects harbored there is responsible for the robberies plaguing Millionaire's Row. Fred Guardineer illustrates this whodunit where time, weather, and a killer all close in at once.