Call after Midnight

by Mignon Good Eberhart

**A woman battles to protect her ex-husband from a murder charge.** The phone rings just after twelve. Jenny Vleedam knows it cannot be anyone but Peter, and she tries to let it ring. **He left her for another woman--a vicious trollop called Fiora---and Jenny has too much self-respect to let him kick her around anymore.** But she answers anyway, and hears the words she has been longing for: Fiora has been shot. But, as often as she has fantasized about something happening to the woman who stole her husband, now **Jenny feels only fear---fear that the police might not believe Peter's story,** that Fiora was the one holding the gun. Not knowing if the woman is dead or alive, Jenny rushes to Peter's side. **Guilty or innocent, they will never be apart again.**

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