Manhunt #9

When five framed playing cards are stolen from Dike Haldane's home and he's found shot dead on the trail, his son Larry teams up with U.S. Marshal Trail Colt to track down the killer—only to have the Marshal jailed on false charges in the town of Sunset. A mysterious woman who knows the cards' dark history helps Trail Colt escape, revealing a decades-old poker game where accusations of cheating cost men everything they owned. Now Marshal Colt must uncover the truth behind the cards and settle an old score before the killer strikes again.

When Jim Fallon of the F.B.I. investigates a fortune-telling racket operating out of a New York nightclub, he discovers that the mysterious fortune teller Nadya has been using fake prophecies to set victims up for blackmail—and when Fallon gets too close, she decides he needs to disappear. What Nadya doesn't realize is that Fallon came prepared, and her own desperate attempt to escape may be exactly what brings her down.

When a mysterious fog-creature begins strangling Londoners with invisible hands, Inspector Ronald Kirk of Scotland Yard finds himself dismissed as mad for claiming the killer isn't human at all. Forced to investigate alone, Kirk becomes a desperate wanderer of the waterfront, hunting for the alien entity and the means to stop it before it claims another victim. "The Monster in the Mist!" is a tense 1948 tale of duty, disbelief, and an inspector's race against an incomprehensible evil.

A string of murders plagues the remote settlement of Barren Bay, where doctors die under mysterious circumstances—and Sergeant Red Fox of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police must uncover the identity of the killer known as Totem-Face before another physician falls victim. When young Doctor Pierre Beauvais arrives despite warnings from a mysterious woman named Melissa, Fox races against time through the Canadian wilderness, following a trail of robbery and violence that leads to a shocking revelation about the masked criminal's true nature. L.B. Cole illustrated this tense manhunt set against the Mackenzie River country.

Undercover Girl Starr Flagg tangles with Siva Dey, a brilliant inventor who has discovered a sinister method to animate stone statues—and plans to use a living army of them to seize control of India and the world. Trapped, chained, and hunted by both the stone guardian Jain and Siva Dey's followers, Starr must race against time to stop the villain before her powers can spread beyond the temple into Rangalore itself.