Angel of Terror

Jean Briggerland moves through the world like a blade wrapped in silk. So devastatingly lovely that witnesses swear to her innocence even when her fingerprints are on the murder weapon, she has perfected the perfect alibi: her own face. When her husband dies under suspicious circumstances, only Jack Glover - his lawyer and best friend - recognizes the angel for what she truly is. But proving a woman's guilt when every man who sees her defaults to devotion is another matter entirely. Edgar Wallace builds the tension with surgical precision. Each chapter tightens the snare as Jean's web of deception grows more elaborate, more murderous, more impossible to unravel. The question isn't whether she'll kill again - it's whether anyone will believe the one man desperate enough to stop her. A pulp romance meets Hitchcockian thriller, a genre-defying oddity from an era when writers could still make you believe that beauty might literally be blinding.