Crime Mysteries #6

Crime-fighter Lance Storm boards a Paris-bound express train only to witness a horrifying attack by a mysterious creature—one that leaves a passenger dead and raises more questions than answers. When Storm is assigned to investigate, he discovers a sinister conspiracy centered around a wax museum and its director, leading him to confront his arch-enemy Dr. Zarno and uncover a deadly plot targeting witnesses to a secret from the past. With bodies piling up across Paris and time running out, Storm must stop the ghoulish terror before Zarno completes his murderous vendetta.

Private detective Don Grady brings his concerns about three recent disappearances to his friend Dr. Foo, the enigmatic Chinese scientist and philosopher, only to find that Foo's ward Nalya has herself vanished—though her psychic distress signals point them to an isolated mansion on the city's edge. What begins as a rescue mission uncovers a far darker conspiracy: the reclusive owner is conducting a mad experiment involving giant vampire moths from Haiti, using kidnapped victims to feed his insects in a twisted bid to create superior silk. As Grady and Dr. Foo close in on the truth, they must confront both the thugs caught in Martel's web and the horrifying creatures he's unleashed.

Jerry Jasper, a society-connected criminologist, finds himself at an exclusive tea when a foreign diplomat is discovered murdered—stabbed right under the noses of prominent guests. Following a trail from a missing maid's substitute to a swanky hotel and a shadowy espionage cell, Jasper uncovers a plot that cuts far deeper than a single killing. With the stakes involving national security and a dangerous woman who knows too much, this detective has to move fast to stop a conspiracy before more blood is spilled.

When a stunt double named Queenie Starr witnesses the troubled marriage between leading man Hal Herbert and his wife, actress June Jennings, she becomes entangled in a Hollywood murder mystery. During filming of a dangerous precipice scene, June plunges to her death through a deliberately cut safety net, and Queenie's observations about the star's shady associates help police uncover a dark secret involving drugs and a desperate act of silencing. This 1953 detective tale by Gene Leslie reveals how a sharp eye and quick thinking can crack a case wide open on the studio lot.