Matt Helm Mission 14. Matt was on vacation in Mexico with nothing on his mind bigger than a fish, when some joker tried to shoot him in the back. Naturally it was no accident. When secret agents get shot at, it's never an accident. So matt had to...
A brutal crime...A group of urban terrorists...An investigation of dirty cops...The leads in these supposedly unconnected cases have become tangled in some very ugly--and dangerous--knots. Now Special Operations detective Matt Payne and his...
An invisible dirigible?
A moment before, the house had been solid, completely normal in appearence. Then, suddenly, it wasn't there. Instead, there was a huge circular pit in the ground, almost as if a bomb had destroyed everything. But there...
Lucille Morrow, the central figure in this novel of psychological mystery, was, to all appearances, a fortunate and happy woman. In early middle life she retained the beauty of her youth: her husband. Dr. Morrow, was wealthy and devoted to her; she...
With the nation a-flutter in the run up to this national event, a disembodied head is discovered on a passenger train at Crewe; the first in a murky course of events that takes in murder, fraud and race-fixing. Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck...
ISLE OF DOUBT was published in the August 15, 1933 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
The "isle" in question is an island in the Mississippi River. The "doubt" is the uncertainty as to whether it is the hiding place of millions in stolen loot or not....