Crime Mysteries #5

Lance Storm, the renowned criminal psychologist, arrives in Paris to find a string of jewel thefts and murders attributed to a mysterious "Green Girl" with otherworldly green skin. When Lance investigates the crime scenes and discovers peculiar chemical traces, his detective work leads him to a carnival on the outskirts of the city—where nothing and no one may be quite what they seem. As he closes in on the truth, Lance must uncover who's truly behind the crimes and what sinister control is being exerted over the frightened young woman at the carnival's center.

Bentley Dunton, a newly wealthy millionaire, purchases an exquisite Tang Dynasty vase to display his refined tastes—but his nights are soon haunted by a terrifying apparition. When a mysterious occultist named Dr. Foo investigates the vase's dark history, he uncovers a supernatural truth far older than Dunton imagined, and the hand that visits him each night refuses to be ignored.

When a publicity tour of three Hollywood stars performing a scene from "Primeval Passions" reaches a small town, tragedy strikes during their stage show—a blank cartridge becomes all too real, and Lenore Lanning falls dead before a horrified audience. Lieutenant Gaines must unravel the mystery of how a murder was committed in front of hundreds of witnesses, with clues pointing toward an unexpected killer with a buried past.

Wealthy playboy and amateur criminologist Jerry Jasper is lunching at an exclusive club when a man is discovered stabbed to death in a chair—and a mysterious woman is caught hiding behind the drapes. As Jerry pieces together the crime, he uncovers a web of embezzlement and betrayal that stretches far beyond the murder scene and forces him to track down the real killer before he strikes again.