Flashpoint

By John Russell Fearn

You are all in danger…

Gordon Drew’s return to his home town coincides with a baffling series of fires and murders. Drew finds himself secretary to a Dr. Carruthers, an eccentric scientist and investigator, who helps the police solve the mystery of the fires. Meanwhile, Superintendent Denning’s methodical investigations lead him to the arsonist. However, when he also discovers a ruthless murderer who exploits science to dazzling effect in his crimes, it is Dr. Carruthers who excels and helps Denning bring justice to the criminal.

John Russell Fearn was an extremely prolific and popular British writer, who began in the American pulps, then almost single-handedly drove the post-World War II boom in British publishing with a flood of science fiction, detective stories, westerns, and adventure fiction. He was so popular that one of his pseudonyms became the editor of Vargo Staten’s Science Fiction Magazine in the 1950’s. His work is noted for its vigor and wild imagination. He has always had a substantial cult following and has been popular in translation around the world. He passed away in 1960 at the age of 52.