When Mike Torlin takes on the job of investigating the strange happenings at Pete Donati's carnival ground, he figures it's a straightforward case of somebody wanting to put Donati out of business. Then a peculiar chicken is produced out of an egg: a dead girl, shot with slugs fr...
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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...
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.
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...
LA Private Investigator Johnny Merak accepts the diminutive Charles Henning as a client, little realising the danger he will face ... But soon, when a series of brutal gangland murders begins, Lieutenant O'Leary, leading the police investigation, is not pleased to find Johnny Mer...
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...
"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...
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...
In Los Angeles, the wealthy Marcia Edwards asks investigator Johnny Merak to find her missing grandson. Merak suspects it's a mob kidnapping. There's someone else who wants to hire him: the model Angela Cliveden, who has been receiving life-threatening phone calls. Merak discover...
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...
Five chilling tales: a family's history is traced back for four centuries - with no instance of a death recorded... The tale of an aunt who wanders out to the graveyard each night... A manor house is built on cursed land, perpetuating the evil started there long ago... The fate o...
The midnight moon rode high and the house seemed to transmute the moonlight into something terrible. The broken chimneys stretched up like hands to the heavens, the eyeless sockets of the windows staring intently along the twisting drive. On the floor of the library, strange caba...
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...
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...
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...