Gerald Verner Books
The football pool murders
Most people would regard winning a fortune on the football pools as a stroke of very good luck - but for three particular people, their big win is anything but lucky. For after receiving their pres...
Read MoreThe hand of fear
Millionaire Felix Dexon left his London hotel one morning and never returned. Then his American lawyers began to receive hand-written instructions from him to regularly transfer large sums of money...
Read MoreSorcerer s house
Sinister events in the village of Ferncross have given the inhabitants good reason to respect the legend surrounding derelict Threshold House: whenever a light appears in the window of the Long Roo...
Read MoreThe con man
Elmore Myers has nursed Mammoth Pictures into becoming the second-largest picture-making corporation in Hollywood. But for the last three years, mysterious accidents have held up the completion of...
Read MoreThe silver horseshoe
John Arbinger receives an anonymous note - offering 'protection' from criminal gangs in exchange for 5,000 - with the impression of a tiny silver horseshoe in the bottom right-hand corner. Ignoring...
Read MoreThe show must go on
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...
Read MoreSinister house
Whispering Beeches stands vacant, well back from the roadway, almost hidden by the thickly growing trees that give it its name - though since its owner, Doctor Shard, was murdered by an unknown han...
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