Suspense Detective #2

A proud bricklayer brings his mute son Mario to work on a construction site for the first time, a dream realized—but when the ruthless foreman Tollick commits a brutal crime and discovers the boy witnessed everything, he traps Mario behind an ever-rising brick wall with only his wits and fading light to save him. As Mario's father searches the site unaware of the horror unfolding above, the wall climbs higher, brick by brick, in a race against suffocation and madness.

John Redfield harbors a murderous scheme: with his business partners dead, the company—and everything he covets—will be his. But when his wife Jean unexpectedly joins the doomed car trip, Redfield must race desperately down the highway to prevent a tragedy of his own making. Fate, it seems, has a cruel sense of timing for those who plot the deadliest of sins.

Porter's artist studio becomes a battleground when a client rejects his portrait as unflattering—so the insulted artist gets creative revenge by adding some distinctive features and putting the painting on public display. What starts as a dispute over artistic merit turns into an unexpected windfall when the town's reaction forces the client to reconsider the work's true value.

A serial killer leaving mutilated red-haired victims in his wake terrorizes the city of Claxton, and reporter Ann Logan becomes obsessed with piecing together clues to unmask him—from telltale knife wounds to a mysterious wooden crate. When a psychologist named Mr. Adams offers his help investigating a lead, Ann finds herself stalked through an abandoned house where the killer's twisted shrine awaits discovery.