Paula Rivers, a beautiful, haughty young cinema cashier, is selling tickets when her sister Eileen delivers a portentous note to her: 'BE CAREFUL.
His plan must be uncovered. The fate of Britain is at stake. Gerald Verner's The Heel of Achilles is a Second World War thriller with surprising twists and a page-turning riddle at its core. Praise for Gerald Verner.
Superintendent Budd is called in by the local police of Long Millford to investigate the strange murder of John Brockwell, impaled to the trunk of a tree with a pitchfork.
Prince of Darkness
Mingling with the denizens of the underworld, taking their lives in their hands, and unknown even to their comrades at Scotland Yard, are the members of the Ghost Squad - an extra-legal organization answerable to one man only.