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Dark conflict

Dark conflict

by John S. Glasby

Large type booksFiction, mystery & detective, generalFiction, thrillers, suspense
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Simon Merrivale owns a mask and headdress, and the legend is that whoever comes into contact with them will find their body taken over by the long-dead Shaman at full moon. Merrivale is dragged from his home, and he and the relics are taken to an isolated mansion. There, Ernest Caltro and his followers prepare to conduct a Black Mass with Merrivale as its human sacrifice. Can Simon's friends Richard Blake and Stephen Nayland mount a rescue mission?

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Large type booksFiction, mystery & detective, generalFiction, thrillers, suspense

About the author

John S. Glasby
John S. Glasby

23 September 1928 – 5 June 2011

John Stephen Glasby was a prolific British author whose work spanned a range of popular genres. A professional research chemist and mathematician, he produced over 300 novels and short stories during the 1950s and 1960s, most of which were published pseudonymously under the Badger Books imprint. Glasby's output can be summarised briefly as follows: Approximately 25 speculative fiction novels, using pseudonyms such as "A. J. Merak" or "J. L. Powers" and the Badger house names "John E. Muller", "Karl Zeigfreid" and "Victor LaSalle". More than 30 western novels using the house name "Chuck Adams", and ten as "Tex Bradley". 34 hospital romance novels written as "D.K. Jennings". …

Author

John S. Glasby

Pages

237

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

1

Language

English

Publisher

Linford

ISBN

9781847822208

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