Showing posts with label Harlequin valentines. Show all posts
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14 February 2026

She Ain't Sleepin': This Year's Harlequin Valentine

The Window with the Sleeping Nude
Robert Leslie Bellem
Toronto: Harlequin, 1950

A mystery novel, The Window with the Sleeping Nude begins with store detective Barney Cunard – "two hundred pounds of hangover" – arriving at work at Westervelt Department Store. A naked mannequin is lying prone in a display window. Some joke, except that it's not a dummy and is very dead. Martha Deane's body is found upstairs. Then Kitty Cavane goes missing.

Harlequin's cover holds a greater mystery. Nora Gleeson had no navel.

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14 February 2025

Harlequin Valentine Woman Hunt?


Be Still My Love
June Truesdell
Winnipeg: Harlequin, 1950

"The drama of exciting woman hunt."

I don't understand.

Shouldn't it be a drama of an exciting woman hunt?

What is a woman hunt, anyway?

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14 February 2024

You're on Your Own this Harlequin Valentine's


Figure It Out for Yourself
James Hadley Chase [René Raymond]
Toronto: Harlequin, 1957

Cover copy informs that the plot has something to do with the disappearance of Lee Dedrick, "husband of the fourth richest woman in the world." The reader is told to expect a brunette who shoots from "a well-turned hip," so who's the blonde?

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14 February 2023

A Ruthless Harlequin Valentine


Never Trust a Woman [In a Vain Shadow]
Raymond Marshall [René Lodge Brabazon Raymond]
Toronto: Harlequin, 1957
Apparently, a novel about a man who is overprotective of his Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.


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14 February 2022

The Worst Harlequin Valentine

The World's Worst Women
Bernard O'Donnell
Toronto: Harlequin, 1955

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14 February 2021

A Harlequin Harlot Romance for Valentine's Day


The Pick-Up
Raymond Marshall [pseud René Lodge Brabazon Raymond]
Toronto: Harlequin, 1955

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14 February 2020

Nothing Says Romance Like a Harlequin Romance


The Vengeful Heart
Roberta Leigh [pseud Rita Lewin]
Toronto: Harlequin, 1970
From the back cover:
His love would be her weapon. 
"You were lucky to marry me, weren't you?" Julia mocked. "But you'll never possess me, Nigel!" 
The knowledge should have filled her with a sense of power. Power over a man she hated! Nigel Farnham's ruthless prosecution of her father had sent him to prison, where he died alone. 
Julia had vowed to make Nigel pay; to destroy the lawyer's life the way he had destroyed her parents. And now she had to carry out her plan for revenge – no matter what the cost...
Happy Valentine's Day!

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14 February 2019

Harlequin & the Eternal Valentine's Day Question


Why Pick on Me?
Raymond Marshall
Toronto: Harlequin, 1954 

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14 February 2018

A Weird and Tense Harlequin Valentine


Death About Face
Frank Kane
Toronto: Harlequin, 1951

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14 February 2017

This Year's Climacteric Harlequin Valentine


Heath, Sex and Birth Control
Percy E. Ryberg, M.D.
Toronto: Harlequin, 1952
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14 February 2016

C'mon, It's Harlequin Valentine Time


Crime on My Hands
Carl G. Hodges
Toronto Harlequin, 1952
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14 February 2015

A Harlequin Valentine Just for You


Brittle Bondage
Rosalind Brett
Toronto: Harlequin, 1969
You didn't think I'd let the day pass, did you?

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14 February 2014

A Harlequin Valentine from Syd Dyke


Holy Deadlock
A.P. Herbert
Toronto: Harlequin, 1954
Cover: Syd Dyke
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14 February 2013

Romance... Harlequin Romance



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14 February 2012

A Harlequin Valentine from Day Keene



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14 February 2011

This Year's Harlequin Valentine



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14 February 2010

Another Harlequin Valentine



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14 February 2009

Harlequin: Before the Romance



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