This Is Suspense #26

Joe Brent and Judy Carr, an ordinary young couple dreaming of marriage and a home, stumble upon something they shouldn't when they witness two men burying a briefcase on a moonlit beach near El Jado Knoll—and temptation leads them to dig it up, finding it stuffed with money. When the men who buried it track them down to reclaim their hidden cache, Joe and Judy flee into a desolate stretch of coast, only to seek shelter in a ramshackle shack where they discover the bearded stranger inside may be far more dangerous than the criminals chasing them. What begins as a moment of weakness spirals into a desperate race for survival, as the couple finds themselves caught between ruthless criminals and a killer with secrets of his own.

Roy Lane, a carnival acrobat, arrives at a high-rise construction site to work under foreman Mike Lomak—the same man whose cruelty drove Roy's brother Joey to his death months earlier. Working forty stories up on narrow steel planking, Roy traps Lomak at the edge and forces him to face the same terrifying height and helplessness that Joey experienced before his fatal fall.

John Trimble's past comes back to haunt him when his old friend Bart Mead uses blackmail to exploit a youthful crime he thought he'd left behind, but when Bart is found dead and Lieutenant Cord Bradley begins investigating, John's panicked lies only deepen his own suspicion in the detective's eyes. As the pressure mounts and John flees into the night, he must reckon with how his own deceptions have painted him as the prime suspect—and decide whether the truth, even from behind bars, is worth more than the desperate escape he's attempting.

John Trimble returns to Rayville to reunite with his old friends, but the reunion takes a dark turn when he learns Bart Mead has been murdered. With Lieutenant Bradley and Policeman Maloney investigating, John finds himself entangled in a web of old secrets—and a dangerous threat from Jerry Burtis, the one person who knows the truth about Bart’s death.