In Sharky Dexter's casino in Los Angeles, a man beats the crooked roulette wheel. He places a large bet on number thirteen, which comes up. He lets it ride for a second time and wins again, then stakes the lot on thirteen again -- and calmly walks out with a million dollars of wi...
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"The ghost town of Mender's Crossing is the ideal base for a gang of outlaws operating without interference. When a group of soldiers is killed defending a gold-train, the army calls upon special operator Steve Landers to investigate. However, Landers is also up against land baro...
Seth Claybourne, a defeated Confederate soldier with no reason to return home, decided to ride west. Crossing a desert he encountered a man who had been left for dead. Jeb Dawson was still alive, but when his attackers returned, Seth drove them off. Dawson, unfit to travel, wante...
Los Angeles businessman Charles Jensen hires private investigator Johnny Merak to prove that his second wife, Janine, is having an affair. Johnny soons finds himself over his head and accused of murder.
Simon Merrivale owns a mask and headdress, and the legend is that whoever comes into contact with them will find their body taken over by the long-dead Shaman at full moon. Merrivale is dragged from his home, and he and the relics are taken to an isolated mansion. There, Ernest C...
Edith Somerville, great-granddaughter of a wealthy banker in L.A., received two-dozen red roses with a note attached: she would receive one rose less every day and on receipt of the last rose she would die ... Private Detective Johnny Merak sets out to find the would-be killer an...
Near the village of Tormount, on Cranston's Hill, Malcolm Amberley had been found dead. He was discovered in the centre of the Standing Stones, clutching the curiously ornamented hilt of a strange dagger, driven into his heart. Did Malcolm commit suicide, or did some evil force s...
Soon after moving into Mexton Grange, an old Georgian country house in the Cotswolds, Alice hears disquieting stories and rumours about her new abode: the previous owners had been driven out by a strange, oppressive atmosphere in the house. It was not as if the house was ACTUALLY...
On the lonely moor stood five ancient headstones, where a church pointed a spectral finger at the sky. There were those who'd been buried there for three centuries, people who had mingled with the inexplicable things of the Dark. People like the de Ruys family, the last of whom h...
Private eye Johnny Merak's latest client, top Mob man Enrico Manzelli, has received death threats. A menacing man himself, he pressures Johnny to discover who was sending them - and why. Then Barbara Minton, a rich heiress, disappears, and her husband turns to Johnny. Despite Man...