Norman Firth – författare

June Mallory was seeking a victim. There was something hard and calculating in her eyes as her gaze swept over the crowded tables of the Silent Parrot night club.

She was very well known at the club—these last few weeks she had been a constant visitor. Yet she loathed the place. It looked cheap and nasty. Everywhere the paintwork was faded and drab; there were damp patches on the walls, and in many places the distemper was flaking so that it was the ruination of a dress if one stood too near. Yet, for some unknown reason, the Silent Parrot was popular. Society had taken it up. The service charges had leaped to fantastic heights but that only seemed to make the club more popular. Every night money flowed into the Silent Parrot, and because there was money there, June Mallory was a constant visitor.

It was her job to seek out men and money.

Closing her curtains, June Merrill catches sight of a woman in the adjoining flats also preparing for bed. June sees her begin speaking to someone unseen then cower back in her bed.June saw a man approach the woman on the bed, apparently demanding something to which the woman would not agree. Suddenly his arm rose, then slashed down, holding what looked like s scalpel. When he moved away, the woman lay dying, the sheets a red mass of blood.Turning, the man saw June staring from the opposite apartment. With a chilling glare, he turned, and was gone. She instinctively knew he was coming to kill her because she had would be able to identify him as the murderer…

It was as she replaced the lipstick in her handbag that she looked directly at Mike. The glance made him start, for the vivid blue eyes were new clouded with an anxious appeal. For a moment she held his gaze—then she looked down at the table only to turn immediately to him again.

Never had Mike been more certain. The beautiful stranger had tried to telegraph a message—a message of appeal. But surely that was absurd. This was London’s most exclusive restaurant—nothing sensational could happen here...

"A mysterious murder cult… A man who had no identity… An ancient hidden Temple in the remote hills of China…and mixed with these ingredients is the at times brutal story of the Purple Dragon Tong and the man who had known too much.

Who was the man the Purple Dragon Tong desired to kill? And why did they want him removed? What did he learn—and forget—about the mysteries of the Tong? And what had the seductive siren Lili Lee, beautiful half-caste to do with everything?Above all, who was the Master?"

Two newlyweds have their celebrations interrupted by a vampire while visiting the Transylvanian Alps! Can they find a way to escape the perils they face before it''s too late? A stories of murder, mystery and the supernatural by Norman Firth.