The Honourable Richard Rollison (aka ‘The Toff’) reluctantly agrees to attend a wedding. Is he the only one that notices something strange about the bride? Murder and blackmail follow with Rollison as a suspect. He is Paris bound when the police stop him, but nonetheless attempts to solve the mystery and reveal the murderer’s identity.

The latest killing of a beautiful girl appears to tie in with others – they were all contestants in a beauty contest. But as Inspector West ponders the mystery a question arises; is the killer just one person, or are there more? And why pick on these women? It is a puzzle worthy of Scotland Yard’s finest and most down to earth detective.

Nine suburban housewives are found murdered in their homes, and all have been raped. Gideon is called upon to investigate and is depressed not only by the sickening nature of the crimes, but also the unintended interference with his first ever visit to New York. But crime never stops, whether it be London or New York .....

There is a suicide at London Airport, an attempted murder in Kowloon, and a girl had been strangled. Then there is an ocean liner with its passengers under sentence of death. Roger (‘Handsome’) West of the Yard flies out to assist the Sydney Police prevent a madman unleashing destruction on an unprecedented scale.

James Mortimer Liddel is charged with the murder of Lancelot Hay. All, however, is not as it seems and a conundrum develops for the famed Inspector West of Scotland Yard. There are visiting Americans; false accusations; a trial, and behind it all a spy ring. Only West and his uncanny instinct for the truth will get to the bottom of this puzzle.

Commander George Gideon is involved in a life and death struggle to prevent Ruby Benson’s killer husband from seeking revenge after she attempts to give him up to the cops. He’s brutal, sadistic, on the streets and dangerous! Just how long can a week get when you are Scotland Yard’s finest?

The fog was thick, sulphurous and impenetrable and just like old times before clean air legislation. Beneath it the villains went about their work quietly and largely undisturbed. Commander George Gideon was aware of this and meant to disturb their peace, but he found himself involved in a web that was more impenetrable than the fog itself.

In an English Village and an American City life goes on as normal. Then a choking, yellowish smog begins to creep along the ground. It is an eye-stinging, killing miasma. Dr. Palfrey and Z5 deploy to head off the threat. One mystery follows another and a fantastic, yet disturbing light is shined on a problem that is all too real ...

West has been lured into a horrific scenario. He found his face covered with scratches, his blood-stained clothes not his own, and an axe with his fingerprints all over it beside a dead young girl. The police had been called and Chief Inspector Roger West of Scotland Yard looked to be framed for murder.

A megalomaniac stumbles across a curious chemical in certain deposits of impure uranium which results in instant death as it is passed from one person to the other. Can Dr. Stanilaus Palfrey defeat Anak’s plan and can Banister and Rita be reconciled as she emerges from her murderous sleep? And just how should the United Nations react?