Gregg, a clever leader of a gang of professional thieves has everything arranged. A market, a safe house in Selsey and a boat to meet his buyers. The theft goes off without a hitch...but then the trouble really starts....
The Dauphin Square branch of Carr's Bank had been robbed - clearlyan inside job. But the staff had unbreakable alibis and the police were baffled. Desperately, ex-sergeant Edward Tope was called in, but it took a murder, a disappearance and...
The law had finally caught up with big-business crook Tim Terson and put him away for five years. Then his son disappeared, presumed drowned. But Mrs Terson was convinced he was alive, and private eye Edward Tope found himself agreeing to take on the...
Ostensibly, Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Nabb are cruising the Dodecanese Islands. However, in their yacht is a Mannlicher rifle, and on the volcanic Island of Hexiemos, living incognito, is the ruler of a Balkan State, Zeus Leru, whom Nabb and his companio...
When Charlie Scree plotted a mail van robbery, he could not foresee that the spot he had chosen to hide the loot would be the playground for a small boy. Scree murders the van driver, and takes the child with him. However, Scree's companion in crim...
Two attempts have been made on the life of General Cortez, a ruthless South American dictator, on an incognito stay in England, when cashiered Army officer William Gatt is offered the job of the third assassin. However, whilst carrying out the plans ...
Hugh Rudd was sent by M.I.5 to find out what had happened to their man Carter, who had disappeared while investigating a Captain Senegal's espionage activities at Portsand Dockyard. Hugh discovered through Joan Hardcastle, who had been helping Carter...
Colonel Blood's attempt to rob the Tower of its treasure in 1671 failed because of his difficulties in escaping from the fortress after the theft. Otto Kraft, ruthless leader of a gang of modern thieves, is certain that he can easily break into the ...
The Mavroletti's raid on the jewellers had gone wrong and a girl had been killed, so they fled to Gozo in the sun-drenched Mediterranean. But the dead girl's fiance, Flanagan, also went to the island, at the suggestion of his employer. Spotting the g...
Hugh Rudd glimpsed Donald Petrie at Fishguard and Rosslare and wasconvinced he was a spy. But when he saw him for the third time hewas dead. Why had Petrie left East Germany without orders? And did he really have a blackout on the edge of the river? ...