America’s bloody Civil War is over, leaving a legacy of bitterness, repercussions, intrigues, and many forms of villainy, not all acted out on the American continent. When the last ship of the old Confederacy docks in Liverpool, England, in 1865, the mysterious, humpbacked Mr. Fortune, carrying a burden of secrets, slips ashore and disappears into the fog of winter. And in London, private detective Septimus Dacers finds that helping an American girl in distress plunges him into combat with the...
A corpse dressed in old-fashioned clothing is found by rescuers in a burning building in London's Moon Lane during the Blitz of Christmas 1940. At first, police believe that the dead man must have come from some pantomime or Dickensian show, but then they realize that the Blitz has reached such an intensity in 1940 that even the bravest showbiz people have closed up shop. Another policeman says he talked to a second person in antique clothing walking in the same neighborhood, but the...
Mike Lantry, the tough, hard-bitten chief of World Wide Investigations, is on his way back to New York after a restful vacation when he gives a ride to a lone girl on an Indiana highway. Lantry's up to his neck in from that moment on, coming into contact with gun-wielding hoodlums and crooked cops and the head of the Mafia in the Midwestern United States. When he joins forces with plucky Joanne Kilvert to pull down a crook's empire, he embarks on a tense chase in which, for every inch...
