A young blonde woman, her golden hair illuminated, screams. She is the seventh victim of a serial killer known as "The Venguer," who targets young blonde women on Tuesday evenings in London's 'White Chapel' district. That night, Daisy Olds a blonde model, is at a fashion show when she and the other showgirls hear the news. The blonde girls are horrified; hiding their hair with dark wigs or hats. Daisy laughs at their fears, and returns home to her parents, Jack and Mrs Rosemary Olds, and her policeman sweetheart, Tom; they have been reading about the crime in the newspaper. A handsome young...

Sid Praley returns to New York from Honduras after an absence of ten years. He doesn't come empty handed but has made a million dollar fortune. He hopes to increase his newly acquired fortune by investing it on Wall Street. His reception isn't what he imagined it would be and he is faced with hostility from every corner Who is working against him? And just as importantly, why? And what is the meaning of the notes he receives The Brand of Silence - Why can't he receive service in hotels, restaurants, and theaters that he once frequented? But he finds New York a very changed place, and even...

Ben Baird, wireless operator of the Ming-Po Maru, notices strange happenings on board ship. What do these strange radio messages mean? Who is it that cries for help? In trying to find out the answers suddenly Ben entered the static-room, picked his way swiftly and unnoticingly across the littered floor, and jerked open the frosted glass door of the chief operator's office, the assembled operators followed him with glances of admiration and concern. No one ever entered the Chief's office in that fashion. One waited until called upon. Ben now finds himself thrust into the underworld clutches of...

The book relates the misadventures of Dirk Marquette, . As the story begins, Marquette and his friend, Major Hynd, are in Boulogne to visit Marquette's aunt, who is dying. While there, Marquette attends a card game, where he has an argument with a corrupt card sharp, the General, who challenges him to a duel. However, the general doesn't turn up himself but nominates his son, an accurate shot, who should win the duel. Marquette absolutely does not want to fight but is goaded into doing so. Against the odds, he accidentally kills his opponent, and the screams of the man's brother after the...

The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- the tale of a crime. The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice ---. Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting -- or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work? With a title like The Haunted Hotel you might be forgiven if you expected this book to be a ghost story. The books does have some dark and nasty scenes, -yes-there is a ghost as well, but The...

David Barringer is a defence barrister and is congratulating himself on a brilliant performance which has just seen Rick Spectre acquitted of murder. His ego is pricked by Margaret Spectre confessing to him that Spectre was guilty. The man himself boasts of it to Barringer a day or two later. Cue moral crisis and a vow never to defend anyone again unless he is sure of their innocence. Spectre himself then dies and Barringer believes he perjures himself in giving evidence at the inquest. He believes Margaret has killed her husband. Margaret is withdrawn and indifferent towards life, taking...

Valeria VanWinkle and her sister Sonya learn the true meaning of social stigma in 1040s England only after the traumatic discovery that their dearly loved parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from Combe-Raven, the idyllic country estate which has been their peaceful home since childhood, the two young women are left to fend for themselves. While the submissive Sonya follows a path of duty and hardship as a governess, her high-spirited and rebellious younger sister has made other decisions....