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She was the sort of blonde that rolls off the assembly lines in Hollywood or Broadway, but could start a riot her in Mexico. she was young and beautiful, too young to be hitch-hiking alone in the wilds of tropical Yucatan. But there was something else about her, and it was not long after Peter Duluth had given her a lift that he realized what it was: the girl was running for her life. Later, in Mexico City, it was Peter himself who was running—from enemies he did not know. But he learned, there and in New Orleans, that danger is never behind you, but ahead. And that sometimes you have to run toward death in order to escape it....
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Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (19 March 1912 – 26 July 1987), Richard Wilson Webb (August 1901 – December 1966), Martha Mott Kelley (30 April 1906–2005) and Mary Louise White Aswell (3 June 1902 – 24 December 1984) wrote detective fiction. In some foreign countries their books have been published under the variant Quentin Patrick. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. Their most famous creation is the amateur sleuth Peter Duluth. In 1963, the story collection The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. AKA: Πάτρικ Κουέντιν (Greek)
