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(from front and back covers) The beautiful and wilful McGee triplets get the Toff- and Jolly - into deadly peril... The Honourable Richard Rollison would never have entered into a long career of crime-busting if he had been the kind of man to ignore the pleas of a lady in distress... But when the 'lady' in distress turns out to be three identical rich sisters who like to play games with men, and when Jolly disappears in suspicious circumstances, the Toff begins to wonder if he hasn't bitten off more than he can chew.

> A car crashes near a provincial English town. The badly injured driver is taken to a hospital where he dies, partly owing to a mistake made by a young resident doctor. The corpse, it turns out, was a con man, long wanted (and often caught) by the police, who are quite content to have him dead. But the error has placed the hapless young doctor's career in jeopardy, and two of his friends, a young surgeon and a journalist, set out to prove that his apparent mistake was actually the result of someone else's deliberate murder plot. Their suspicions become virtual certainties as the young men delve into the con man's murky past and discover many people who might have wished him dead. But trapping the murderer proves to be both a difficult and dangerous mission for the two nonprofessional investigators.

Hailed by Mary Higgins Clark as “one of the best mystery-suspense writers,” Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis presents a spellbinding tale of passion and deadly deceit that begins with a dying man’s mysterious last words Father McMahon is struggling to write a sermon when a boy runs into his office. A man in his tenement is dying, the boy says, and it is too late for a doctor or the police. In the basement of the apartment house, Father McMahon kneels beside the blood-soaked man, who has been stabbed with a knife. The man asks for no absolution. He wants to talk of life, not death, and takes to his grave the identity of his killer—and his own. No one in the neighborhood—not his lover or his friends—knows the man’s real name, where he came from, or why someone would want to kill him. But in his final minutes, he reveals one clue that sends Father McMahon, a cop, and a wealthy young woman down New York’s dark streets, where a killer is waiting to strike again.

A Superintendent West crime story.

> Sally Combs had just finished a temporary job as a secretary to her uncle in Bermuda. As a farewell present he arranged for her to go on a cruise round the Caribbean. It seemed an ideal holiday, but the night before the ship arrived in Bermuda, Felicity Fennister, one of the passengers, suddenly disappeared. At first no one seemed at all anxious to discover the whereabouts of the missing woman - not even when Sally finds what looks like a suicide note. As sinister events build up into a pattern of violence, Sally is forced to realise that almost anyone on board could hold the key to the puzzle.

Two stories based on the very successful TV series of The Saint: The Art Collectors and The Persistent Patriots. Although some editions credit the story adaptations to Leslie Charteris, it's generally accepted that they were done by Fleming Lee. In The Art Collectors, Simon Templar (the Saint) takes issue with European 'Art Collectors' who have their own interpretation of art collecting. The Persistent Patriots, sees the Saint battling to save the life - and reputation - of the Prime Minister of Nagawiland, on the African coast, from a cadre of revolutionaries...

Recently-qualified Dr Roy Cartwright takes a temporary post as a locum in an established London practice. Soon, he is falsely accused of the attempted rape of a middle-aged female patient - and the practice receptionist, Lilian, warns him that the same thing happened to Dr Markson. Now, Dr Markson is reported to be on holiday; but his body is found in Southampton Water. Dr Cartwright becomes dragged into corruption and he is lucky that his uncle has friends in Scotland Yard who can try to help him. He also has a friend in Lilian . . .

Will the personal problems in the lives of George Gideon and his men interfere with their ability to combat London's latest crime wave?