The Carnival of Death: A Case of Killer Drugs and Cold-blooded Murder on the Midway (Mystery & Suspense Short Stories Collection Book 6)

Decadence and murder found on the dark side of the big city pales in comparison to the freak show found by undercover US narcotics agent Bob Clark in The Carnival of Death.

Clark’s investigation begins with cocaine and leads to cold-blooded murder—the discovery of one, and then another, headless corpse. Who is behind the slaughter? Are the killings tied to the drug traffic? Or is a deeper, darker, and even more sinister conspiracy unfolding in the carnival?

There are plenty of distractions—bright lights and beautiful girls—but Clark better find the murderers of the midway fast. Because the next head that rolls could very well be his own.

Also includes the mystery “The Death Flyer,” in which a man and woman find themselves trapped on a ghost train and bound for a deadly crash … unless they can find a way to derail fate and cheat death—on the fly. Long before the Source Code movie with Jake Gyllenhaal, Jim Bellamy boards a ghost train, screaming through the night as he tries to save the life of a young lady who died in its wreckage ten years ago. A love story of an impossible nature, Jim tries to reverse time, on a train of phantoms long forgotten, yet stuck in time.

“Roars to life.” —Library Journal

“A superb storyteller with total mastery of plot and pacing.” —Publishers Weekly

L. Ron Hubbard’s stories of mystery, detection, and investigative procedure—the crime-solving processes he characterized as “the art of observation”—were exceedingly well-wrought and warmly received from their initial appearance in 1934. Fashioned with his fast, spare, vivid style, they plunge the reader into the heart of a murder mystery, the inside circle of danger within the maze of crime, always with the defining authenticity of reality that epitomizes L. Ron Hubbard’s fiction, whatever the genre.

His detective mysteries are taut, sharp-edged crime stories with ambiguous clues and the pursuit of an uncertain truth by principled men and women who are, themselves, in harm’s way.