Crime Mysteries #8

When Dan Turner stumbles onto a gruesome discovery at Paratone Pictures—what he thinks is the severed head of starlet Lana Ware—he's quickly corrected: it's just a wax dummy for a picture in production. But moments later, a real corpse turns up on the set: leading man Joe McCord, stabbed and still warm, hidden among the studio's lifelike props. Now Turner must untangle which suspects had motive enough to kill—and use the very wax figures meant to fool the camera to catch a killer who almost fooled him.

Kitty Vale, a photographer documenting the bombed-out ruins of Hertzberg Castle near Vienna, encounters a mysterious girl while exploring the darkened medieval structure. When two dangerous men close in on her, a miraculous intervention saves Kitty's life—but when she later develops her infra-red photographs, she discovers something impossible about her rescuer.

Dr. Foo, the mystic scholar of incredible mental powers, investigates the electrocution of a visiting prince at the United Nations—but discovers the death was no accident, and a hidden killer plans to strike again. With his ward Nalya at his side, Dr. Foo uses telepathy, thought projection, and his unparalleled intellect to uncover a murderer whose motive lies in wealth and power, all while becoming the killer's next target. Can the remarkable doctor's supernatural abilities expose the culprit before the "Prayer of Death" claims another victim?