Brian Ball

A savagely mutilated doll, the sinister reminder of the terrifying photos he had seen earlier in London, is in the shoe box given to Keegan as he embarks on the run from Belgium. He has been 'sold' by his creditor, Viney, to a London firm to clear himself financially. But the firm has elaborate games in mind: games involving a patsy . . . International security is at risk. And the patsy, Keegan, is needed . . . dead!

The No-Option Contract

Keegan

A UFO Spotters' Guide

Young Person's Guide to UFOs

Robotic minds made interstellar travel possible, but human minds still controlled the destination and purpose of such flight. Conflict develops only when a programmed brain cannot evaluate beyond what is visible and substantial, whereas the human mind is capable of infinite imagination - including that which is unreal. Such was the problem at the singularity in space in which the ALTAIR STAR and a hundred other vessels had come to grief. At that spot, natural laws seem subverted - and some other universe's rules impinged. For Buchanan, the station meant a chance to observe and maybe rescue his lost vessel. For the robotic navigators of oncoming spaceships, the meaning was different. And at Singularity Station the only inevitable was conflict.

Singularity Station

Witchfinder, the Mark of the Beast

Crock-legged footballer, gaoled bouncer, earmarked for execution by the Provisional IRA and hopelessly in the clutches of British Intelligence, Keegan finds himself sent to Ibiza to deliver a message to a fellow ex-footballer now turned alcoholic. "A few days in the sun," his new boss Holmyard told him. Keegan knew it would be more than that but even he wasn't prepared for the chain of events which followed. Events involving Arabs and Israelis and people who wanted him--dead!

The One-Way Deal

The Solar System was imprisoned. Locked in a vast, invisible screen. Set there by something - or someone - but no one knew why... And man, banned from the stars, turned inward to himself, to a world of carefully controlled thoughts and ideas, a world where it was forbidden to dream...

Sundog

When Tom Tyzack is viciously beaten to death with a golf club on the local golf course, PC Arthur Root, the local village bobby, is in the unenviable position of having to question his fellow club members. He is regarded with scorn by the detective in charge of the case, and the latter's ill-natured attitude toward the suspects does little to assist him in solving the mystery. But it is Root who, after a second brutal murder, stumbles on the clue that leads to the discovery of the killer!

Death of a Low-Handicap Man

When elderly Mrs. Peters appears to suffer a stroke at her Nursing Home, only Diana Knightson realizes the truth. Her young colleague Marguerite Friend deliberately terrified the old woman! For the beautiful girl is working toward her own evil agenda... Amongst their office colleagues, only Diana believes that Marguerite is not as she seems. And when Diana's fiance Phil Walsh is seduced by Marguerite and turned against her, she knows she is in mortal danger. But after Mrs. Peters' death, Diana gains an unexpected ally -- Jarvis Peters, the old woman's son, who is determined to avenge his mother’s murder. For only together can they fight the forces of evil!

Malice of the Soul

Sydney J. Bounds

In the tradition of the Ace Doubles (flip the book over to read the second title), here's the eleventh Wildside Mystery Double: THE BAKER STREET BOYS: TWO BAKER STREET IRREGULAR NOVELLAS, by Brian Ball. If Mr. Sherlock Holmes had been in the country when the Baker Street Irregulars stumbled across the mystery of the Captive Clairvoyant, then no doubt he would have given immediate assistance. But Mr. Holmes was in Switzerland engaged in a deadly duel of wits with his most feared opponent, the evil Professor Moriarty; and so the Baker Street Irregulars, the gang of ragamuffins who sometimes assisted Mr. Holmes in his investigations, had to rely on their own wits. It all began-and ended-in Trump's Music Hall, the theatre where Sparrow was employed, where the star of the show was The Amazing Marvin, Hypnotist Extraordinaire and Mentalist Supreme! But Marvin had a secret and sinister agenda.... Two marvelous tales of Holmesiana! TIME FOR MURDER: MACABRE CRIME STORIES, by Sydney J. Bounds. When Chalmers decides to attend one of Dr. Lanson's nightly seances, it's not because he has any belief in the occult, but simply to find somewhere warm to rest his weary feet. It's a decision he soon regrets. First, a luminous cloud forms in the air over the heads of the assembled people. A strange voice speaks, warning that someone in the room is about to die to prevent him from revealing secrets. The man sitting next to him leaps to his feet, yelling his defiance--and then the lights are extinguished. As the man's voice is cut off, a girl's ear-piercing shriek reverberates...and Terror Stalks the Seance Room! Just one of eleven exciting macabre crime short stories by a master of the form!"

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