Twin Trillium

Story 14 in the “Tales of Suspense” Series

Victoria Halloran was the heir of the great Whitcomb legacy which came with an estate beyond value situated on a private island called Belle Isle outside of Detroit. With her kind and attentive husband Herbert at her side, from there she reigned as queen on her throne. Unfortunately her throne was her bed—she was a hypochondriac invalid that had not escaped her world of pillows and linens for more than a dozen years.

Imperious, entitled, and bitter, she only found happiness when the world revolved around her. Other than through her overworked telephone, she had no contact with the outside world. But when she eavesdrops on another party’s call and discovers a murder plot, she is desperate to convince others that something must be done to prevent it.

The entire story takes place over a few hours largely with her alone in her bed, but the action and tension are larger than life and, as the clock ticks down to the appointed time of the killing, the scene is almost unbearable.

Each book in the “Tales of Suspense” Series is a standalone story and not connected to the others. Readers can jump in at any point.

Story 9 in the “Tales of Suspense” Series

When a fledgling and failing novelist comes up with the idea of a lifetime—a murder mystery—he brings in a stenographer to type it up as he feverishly dictates the story. Up against an unyielding deadline, the writer tells his tale while struggling with his disinterested typist in a battle of wills.

The author’s novel—embedded into Final Draft—is the story of a hardboiled crime reporter who figures out a plot to seduce and marry a dying heiress in order to gain her fortune. His plan however, is beset with challenges and he finds himself in an ever darker, ever deeping maze of intrigue…something the author suddenly seems unable to escape himself as the writer’s fiction merges with his own life.

Each book in the “Tales of Suspense” Series is a standalone story and not connected to the others. Readers can jump in at any point.

When two aging sisters—old maids from another era—share a crumbling mansion on a hill, one of them decides that “daddy’s house” is no longer big enough for the two of them. Tired of being the caretaker of her feeble sibling and anxious to find a husband to care for her, Miss Myrna—of the famed Boston Collingsworths—decides that it’s time for her needy sister Vera to be gone and begins to lay the framework for her disappearance.

Tired of being told to “Hush!” Vera may not be as slow and trusting as she seems and soon the two enter into a cat-and-mouse game from which only one will emerge. Filled with unexpected twists and turns, this story—in the mold of “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”—will have readers guessing until the final moments. Called “a mental exercise in tension, this is an unexpected gem in Jamison’s “Tales of Suspense” Series.

Each book in the “Tales of Suspense” Series is a standalone story and not connected to the others. Readers can jump in at any point.