Climate incorporated

By Lauran Paine

When meteorologist Alvin Brook invents a means of controlling the weather, he imagines it will lead to his becoming a world benefactor, with riches for him and his family. Instead, Brook and his wi...

The Empty Coffins

By John Russell Fearn

The five matchboxes

By Lauran Paine

After the police receive a warning of his impending murder, stockbroker Granville Collins is found shot dead in his office. The windows were closed, the door locked. The building was under police o...

Liquid death

By Lauran Paine

A gang of criminals has established a far reaching racket in counterfeit coins, making English gold sovereigns to order. The CID is kept busy, but then there's a mysterious epidemic of deaths from...

Except for one thing

By Lauran Paine

Nebula

By Lauran Paine

Physicist Lance Barley couldn't explain the presence of a half naked woman in his laboratory. The consequences would be serious for him. He knew the laboratory had been securely locked. It was impo...

Black Maria M.A.

By Lauran Paine

When Ralph Black, chain store magnate, was found shot by his own gun in his locked library, the New York police pronounced it as suicide. However, family members believe it was murder. His sister i...

One step too far

By Lauran Paine

Claire Escott had ignored her father's warning against involvement with her fiance, Mark Rowland. However, she little realized the extent of the scientist's corroding ambition. And it was not long...

The thirty first of June

By Lauran Paine

The lie destroyer

By Lauran Paine

Bobby Carson is proud of his lying expertise. His scientist father uses him as a guinea pig for a machine which destroys his ability to be dishonest, but has unhappy social consequences. Soon crimi...