THE STOLEN SMILE Bunny Chandler, a Realtor in suburban Chicago, gets a call from a young mystery women in New York asking to find her a secluded Gothic house near woods and a river. Bunny knows just the house. But would the caller mind if a woman was just murdered in it? Rules of the real estate game say she has to ask her that. The caller buys the house, then she and Bunny's lives are in danger from someone who kills to get the Mona Lisa that has been stolen from the Louvre in Paris.

A Christian romance novel by Walter Oleksy. Beautiful young Barbara Markey, a pioneer aviatrix and friend of Amelia Earhart, falls in love with her handsome young flying instructor during college in Chicago in 1936. But Paul loves her best friend, Gail. Barbara's parents separated when she was a baby because her mother's best friend stole her husband from her. Friendship becomes sacred to Barbara, so she won't fight Gail for the man they both love. At the wedding reception, Paul gives Barbara a Pegasus pin, symbol of the threesome's love of horses and flying, and tells her, "Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love," Christian philosophy of St. John of the Cross, a 1500s Spanish priest. Barbara spends the next ten years trying to find that love, taking her into the world of pioneer women in aviation. She finds mutual true love in Stephen Collier, a captain in General George Patton's armored division in France, but there is a reason they cannot marry. Later, that reason is overcome and Barara finally puts love and finds it.

THE MURDER-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB Captain Monty Chichester, a retired British naval officer, and his wife Isobel run an old boarding house in Whitcliffe-on-the-Sea, a fictional village on the Maine coast. The town is perpetually shrouded in smog, partly due to fog perpetually laying over the harbor and smoke from a local coat factory. Also residing at the inn, besides their beautiful granddaughter Estelle who is the new village librarian, and the Captain's elderly mother, are three roomers of advanced age: Fiona Cottsworth, the former librarian; Iris Wimbledon, an actress "at liberty;" and Ben Fawkes, a plumber. They are all immigrants from England so they make up a senior citizen "Little British community" in America. All but Estelle are members of an afternoon club which meets at the inn and takes up diversions such as bridge or whist. Their current "phase" is dissecting murder novels. To the inn comes a young American, Stephen Longcommon, who learns from Captain Chichester that everyone in Whitcliffe is doomed to die -- from the village factory's pollution. Stephen shows concern but is more interested in Estelle. He is liked by those at the inn, but none knows why he has come to Whitcliffe. Isobel, Fiona, and Iris agree they are growing tired of the current phase. Fiona remarks that they have read and analyzed so many murder novels, they know enough about murder to commit the perfect crime. The notion is taken up at the next meeting and all agree that would make a splendid new phase for the club. They agree to do in everyone in Whitcliffe who has to do with the coat factory's pollution. This includes its elderly owner, Horace Dingle; his slightly younger wife Irene; their lawyer Guy Farnsberry (with whom Irene is having an affair); and three public officials on-the-take: Mayor Pim; Health Commissioner Roxbury; and Cyril Spade, chairman of the village Committee on Environmental Control. Six polluters, each marked for death. They will be murdered one-a-month, their name drawn by lot. The murders will take the club members from Spring to Autumn, and Captain Chichester christens them The Murder-of-the-Month Club. But being all good people, the club members agree not to actually murder those on their list. They will plan each murder and even go through a charade toward doing in each victim, but they will not actually murder anyone. To their surprise, each person on their list does die, in the order they vote upon at club meetings, and in manners either identical or similar to those they agreed upon. The club members and the reader wonder if the deaths are accident or, is someone murdering those on their list. If murder, who is the murderer? Is it one of the club members, having gotten carried away with the new phase? Is the murderer someone else? Each person on the murder list has good reason to do in any of the others, and there also are outsiders who might be responsible for the deaths.

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A black Lab dog, Max, is abandoned as a puppy and adopted by a landscaper. They live in a ranch house across from a golf course where they and neighbors take their dogs on walks. Max befriends other dogs until their masters show prejudice. Max and his best dog pal leave in a winter snow storm and meet an Hispanic couple with the wife about to give birth on Christmas Eve. Max and his friend find them shelter in an allegory of The Nativity and all ends well with the dogs' masters finding them and restoring the centuries-old pact between man and dog.