U.S. Jones #2

U.S. Jones and his partner Grumbler are assigned to guard General Howe during war maneuvers, only to find themselves caught in a nightmarish plot: soldiers are mysteriously vanishing, generals are dying of inexplicable fevers—only to mysteriously return to life—and a sinister figure called Moloch lurks beneath the camps with a diabolical weapon. As U.S. Jones descends into an underground cavern to uncover the truth, he discovers a Nazi sabotage scheme designed to cripple the Army from within, and must race against a lethal fever machine to stop a conspiracy that threatens the entire regiment.

U.S. Jones faces his greatest mystery when a killer called the Crimson Saint strikes at a costume ball held at Dr. Fabian's mansion—a fiend who leaves victims with a crushing halo around their heads and now has his sights set on priceless Polish crown jewels. As U.S. works to stop the thief and protect the jewels' guardian, he discovers the killer's identity may be closer than he thought, leading to a deadly confrontation in the mansion's depths.

The Crimson Saint breaks out of prison and swears vengeance against U.S. Jones, recruiting a gang of thugs and laying an elaborate trap at an old farmhouse to lure the masked hero into his clutches. When Jones answers a newspaper personal ad promising to save his captured partner Grumbler, he walks straight into a deadly gauntlet of falling logs, hidden pits, and the villain's murderous halo—but the defender of liberty has a trick of his own up his sleeve. It's a brutal clash of wits and fists as Jones fights to stop the Crimson Saint's killing spree once and for all.

When master criminal Moloch breaks free with murder on his mind, U.S. Jones finds himself racing against time to protect a crippled man named Markey who holds the secret instructions for a British convoy's safe passage. With Moloch's gang closing in from all sides and a coded message the key to everything, Jones must outwit the villain's scheme to intercept vital wartime intelligence. A young U.S. Jones Cadet becomes an unlikely hero as the stakes mount and danger shadows every move.

In "Rendezvous with....Death!", The Topper intercepts a desperate young woman on the edge of a rooftop, only to uncover a chilling web of hypnotic manipulation tied to the notorious magician The Great Vronsky. With Louise by his side and a mysterious girl named Bee caught in the crossfire, The Topper must unravel a series of crimes committed at the homes of famous performers—each one a puzzle piece in a deadly game orchestrated by a master illusionist.

When heiress Bess Brandon hires girl detective Peg Miller to investigate a series of gruesome deaths plaguing her family, the two women find themselves trapped in a cursed swamp house where mysterious murders continue—and a terrifying creature stalks the halls. As Peg uncovers the truth behind the deaths and the legend of the Swamp Beast, she must expose the real killer before another victim falls.