Strange Fantasy #11

Lieutenant Peter Carson has the grimmest job in the city—restoring decomposed bodies so they can be identified—but his professional expertise hides a darker secret that's eating away at his mind. When a mutilated corpse surfaces in the East River near his own home, the case pulls him into a nightmare that reaches back to post-war France and a past he thought he'd buried forever. As the walls close in, Carson's carefully constructed life begins to crack, and the sins he's tried to escape are coming due in the most brutal way imaginable.

When a beautiful model named Mary Jones is found dead in her Philadelphia apartment in 1916, Detective work begins with a mysterious silk stocking, a size-fifteen shirt, and a Chicago timetable—clues that point to a jealous acquaintance with a dangerous obsession. As police methodically piece together the killer's movements through cab drivers, haberdashery clerks, and hotel records, the net tightens around a man known as Robert Faye, a salesman who may have already made his final, desperate decision. This true-crime tale follows the tireless persistence of the police department as they hunt a killer who knows the law is closing in.

Adam Monny, a ruthless millionaire who's made his fortune through lies and cruelty, begins to fear retribution from those he's wronged—and when a psychic warns him that faceless figures seek revenge, his paranoia hardens into action. He gives away his wealth to charity as a smokescreen, then constructs an impenetrable fortress of a house, complete with six-foot-thick steel-lined walls and every lock imaginable, planning to seal himself inside permanently. Once he locks the doors, Adam believes he's finally safe from the five people who might want him dead—but "Doom Deferred" reveals whether isolation can truly protect a man from his past.