Crime Mysteries #12

In "Dead Woman's Swamp," three college students venture into the fog-laced marshes near their campus, only to be stalked by a monstrous presence rising from the muck. When the attacks begin, the truth unravels: their biology teacher has been cultivating deadly leeches in a hidden shack, using the swamp as his hunting ground.

When wealthy art dealer Steven Crane receives mysterious death threats written in verses from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwock," Inspector Vance Bennet arrives to protect him during a tense weekend gathering of suspects—his nephews, his secretary, and a young woman with a secret connection to his past. As a costumed monster begins stalking the mansion on a stormy night, Bennet must decode the cryptic poem's hidden meanings and unmask the killer before the curse claims its final victim.

Private detective Barney Brenn answers a desperate cry for help in an alley behind Regent Television Studios and discovers a murdered woman—the sister of the studio's costume designer, Jack Deming. As Brenn investigates the crime alongside the police, a second body turns up inside the studio, and suspicion falls on Jack himself. But the real culprits run deeper than a grief-stricken brother, and Brenn must untangle a web of espionage and deception to expose the true killers before they silence him too.

When Mrs. Van Brocks' jewels vanish three times from a sealed room despite Dr. Foo's presence, the Chinese mystic must unravel an impossible theft using his legendary mental powers and command over the material world. As strange attacks threaten his young ward Nalya, Dr. Foo's hypnotic abilities and mastery of inanimate objects become his only tools to expose the true culprits and recover the missing gems.