Mary Higgins Clark

An innocent girl is kidnapped and held hostage for two years causing her to develop multiple personalities and making her the number one suspect when her English professor is brutally murdered.

After attempting to murder a woman he's convinced tried to kill him in a past life, a man is committed to a hospital for the criminally insane, but a suspicious District Attorney is convinced that the man has killed before.

The personal ads of New York's trendiest magazines become the hunting ground for a bizarre killer whose calling card is a single, high heeled dancing shoe and one woman is determined to find out his true identity after the murder of her friend.

Having the winning lottery jackpot ticket is the best thing that could have happened to delivery man Bill Regan. Determined to find out what happened, a friend retraces Bill's delivery stops and discovers they lead to her own husband.

As she lay dying, a woman gives the only witness to her murder her daughter's journal, implying that her attacker may also be responsible for her child's death. Before giving the journal to the police, the witness makes a copy for herself.

After a radio talk show host takes to the airwaves to discuss recent slayings of lonely women aboard cruise ships, she receives information that leads her to believe she knows the killer and may be the next target.