Whodunit #3

When Professor Kip Dawn and his team are invited to a private séance at Ivy College to help wealthy industrialist Amos Lear contact his dead son, they find themselves attending what should be a supernatural evening—only to have it end in very real murder when the medium, Professor Ravic, is stabbed to death in the darkness. With Poppy Fields and the others held as material witnesses, Kip must use his crime lab to uncover the scientific truth behind Ravic's séance tricks and expose the killer hiding in plain sight. A mystery that hinges on exposing fraud to solve a genuine crime.

When a photographer is found dead in his shop, Inspector Reis of the Homicide Squad must untangle the motives and alibis of three suspects—Fred Mednick, who discovered the body; Herman Train, the assistant who left early claiming illness; and Else Fawn, who abandoned her post to meet her boyfriend that afternoon. With a cigar box full of cash missing and everyone's story under scrutiny, Reis applies his methodical approach to separate the guilty from the merely suspicious in this 1948 mystery.

When a string of dangerous "accidents" plague a construction project, Lieutenant Jim Brewster goes undercover on the job to uncover the sabotage—and discovers that Pete Adams, the company's own partner, has engineered a ruthless scheme involving defective materials and a hidden rival firm. With evidence of corroded steel beams, doctored rivets, and deliberate sabotage mounting, Brewster must catch Adams red-handed before the next catastrophe brings the whole operation down.

Willie Brophy makes a deadly mistake when he starts shaking down the city's power brokers with blackmail photos, including a compromising picture of Henry Morton's daughter Linda. As the hoodlum collects his blood money and settles in for the night, someone with a .25 caliber grudge has other plans, leaving the detective and the newsman Larry Watson to untangle a web of suspects that includes a vengeful ex-con, two corrupt politicians, and a city that's got plenty of reasons to want Willie dead.

What looks like a routine suicide case becomes something far darker when Detective Lt. Jim Kirnan and his assistant Chuck Ballantine dig deeper into the death of heiress Gloria Patterson. With clues ranging from oil-streaked gloves to a misplaced fashion magazine, the detectives must unravel a tangled web of jealousy and obsession among three suspects with secrets to hide. The Red-Headed Vixen proves that the smallest overlooked detail can be the key to cracking a case wide open.