"Look!" snapped Perez. "The crimson window!"

They saw Collier standing like an immense white slug against the crimson panes, frantically twisting the rusty brass handle of the window. He wrenched open the handle, kicking the window wide.

"Down!" yelled Perez. "Down on your faces, everybody!" Up went his hand, above his head, while he shouted an order to his men.

Rat tat tattattat, spurted the automatic rifles, their line of fire converging on the window.

Collier's very clothes seemed to flap and fly in the wind of bullets. In dying agony, he gave a terrific spring backward from the windowsill, and landed heavily, face up, on the carpet. His blood flowed out and over the design as he twitched once and forever lay still.

MYSTERIES TO KEEP YOU GUESSING

by John Dickson Carr

CASTLE SKULL (1974, $3.50)

The hand may be quicker than the eye, but ghost stories didn't hoodwink Henri Bencolin. A very real murderer was afoot in Castle Skull —a murderer who must be found before he strikes again.

IT WALKS BY NIGHT (1931,53.50)

The police burst in and found the Duke's severed head staring at them from the center of the room. Both the doors had been guarded, yet the murderer had gone in and out without having been seen).

THE EIGHT OF SWORDS (1931, $3.50)

The evidence showed that while waiting to kill Mr. Depping, the murderer had calmly eaten his victim's dinner. But before famed crime-solver Dr. Gideon Fell could serve up the killer to Scotland Yard, there would be another course of murder.

THE MAN WHO COULD NOT SHUDDER (1703, $3.50) Three guests at Martin Clarke's weekend party swore they saw the pistol lifted from the wall, levelled, and shot. Yet no hand held it. It couldn't have happened — but there was a dead body on the floor to prove that it had.

THE PROBLEM OF THE WIRE CAGE (1702, 53.50) There was only one set of footsteps in the soft clay surface— and those footsteps belonged to the victim. It seemed impossible to prove that anyone had killed Frank Dorrance.

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