Linford Mystery

Tragedy dogs the footsteps of three ex-soldiers - Clifford, Ronnie and Keith - when they start to produce a show planned in their Army days. The theatre they lease is reputed to be haunted since an actor, Castleton Mayne, was murdered on the stage thirty years before ... On their first visit, the son of the owner, Alexandra Mayne, is mysteriously murdered. Then a rival producer, in league with the displaced leading lady, tries his utmost to ruin the show ...

"The ghosts of a man and woman haunt the new housing development at Forsby near Boston, sapping the vitality of a young wife, Julia Grier. They are identified as the former owners of the land who have been tricked out of their property by fraud. It requires a cruel revelation and the fortitude of Julia to finally lay the two spirits to rest."- - Description by Peter Haining, in "A Century of Ghost Novels 1900 - 2000" (Appendix to his book, The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories)

It's Christmas week in New York, and the frozen body of Cletus Berry, Hobart Lindsey's partner, has been found in a back alley alongside that of a known criminal. Was there a connection between the two men? This wouldn't normally be Lindsey's case, but when a man's partner is killed, he must do something about it. Now separated from Marvia Plum, Lindsey is on his own, and the body count is set to rise unless he can solve the mystery of the Silver Chariot ...

'I saw a chauffeur hit a girl and knock her unconscious. Then he threw her into a limousine and sped away ... ' Alice Whelan finds horror on Falcon Island: home of her retired movie star mother, Diana Hamilton, and her sixth husband, Leland Braddock. Who is the mysterious girl locked away in the mansion's tower? What is the truth behind the elaborate greenhouse that Leland and his brother maintain in the nearby woods? And what strange experiments are the two conducting with their Fatal Flowers?