Most Popular Books by Hugh Pentecost

"Captive to a killer''s urge, a monster airship lay earthbound, far from fighting men who needed her so desperately ... while, high in her remote mountain hangar, a group of terrified men and women waited and wondered where murder would strike again." The detective in the story, known only as Lombardi, is said to be modeled on the real-life Vermont State Detective Almo B. Franzoni (1887-1965), who, in 1931 when he took office, was the only law enforcement official with statewide powers of investigating criminal cases for several years, until the Vermont State Police was formed in 1948-49.

Pierre Chambrun solves a murder involving the "mod" set.