Ken Shannon #3

Ken Shannon thought it was a routine job—a divorcée needs protection from her abusive ex-husband on a stormy night. But when Ken and his secretary Dee Dee Dawson arrive, they hit something on the road: a badly decomposed corpse that's been dead for two months, yet somehow still walking. As Ken investigates a series of impossible, terrifying encounters at Linda Tarrent's sprawling mansion, he has to untangle whether he's facing genuine supernatural horror or an elaborate, murderous deception.

Detective Ken Shannon finds himself protecting a nightclub singer named Linda Lewis after a hired gunman's botched assassination attempt—and discovers the real threat comes from a vengeful ex-con named Smiley Snow, who's spent five years nursing a murderous grudge against her for testifying against him years ago. Shannon devises a desperate bluff to outmaneuver Snow's obsession, but when his plan backfires in the worst possible way, he faces a race against time to stop a killer determined to finish what he started, even in a hospital room where his target lies helpless. Packed with the gritty cat-and-mouse tension that made 1952 crime comics essential reading, this is a sharp reminder that sometimes the cleverest trap can snap shut on the wrong person.