Lady to Kill

By Lester Dent

To get to the bottom of a business deal gone bad, Chance Molloy seeks answers from a young woman on a train -- but gets more than he expected.

Julie Edwards, a small-town physician's assistant, is headed to New York to visit her old friend Martha and make a new life for herself. On the train, she meets Chance Molloy, an intrepid, self-made airline owner who also knows Martha -- or thinks he does. When Molloy shows Julie a picture of their mutual friend, she claims he's got the wrong girl. As Julie walks back to her car, an assassin knocks her unconscious. She's saved in the nick of time from being thrown off the train.

While the train hurtles forward, Molloy must unlock an elaborate corporate conspiracy surrounding the imposter Martha, while safeguarding Julie and staying two steps ahead of the killers traveling with them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Release date: Jun 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781784084233

Lester Dent

Lester Dent (1904–1959) was born in La Plata, Missouri. In his mid-twenties, he began publishing pulp fiction stories, and moved to New York City, where he developed the successful Doc Savage Magazine with Henry Ralston, head of Street and Smith, a leading pulp publisher. The magazine ran from 1933 until 1949 and included 181 novel-length stories, of which Dent wrote the vast majority under the house name Kenneth Robeson. He also published mystery novels in a variety of genres, including the Chance Molloy series about a self-made airline owner. Dent’s own life was quite adventurous; he prospected for gold in the Southwest, lived aboard a schooner for a few years, hunted treasure in the Caribbean, launched an aerial photography company, and was a member of the Explorer’s Club.