{"product_id":"the-death-messenger-the-complete-cases-of-jigger-masters-volume-4-paperback-4","title":"The Death Messenger: The Complete Cases of Jigger Masters, Volume 4 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnthony M. Rud\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoseph a. Farren\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator), \u003cb\u003eLejaren Hiller\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJigger Masters-hard-nosed, unflappable, and blessed with a nose for the devil's smallest tracks-returns in \u003cem\u003eThe Death Messenger: The Complete Cases of Jigger Masters, Volume 4. \u003c\/em\u003eTwo savage, old-time pulp mysteries test his wits against theatrical murder, chemical horrors, and crimes that seem to answer to no earthly law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"The Death Messenger,\" a Long Island estate of eccentric experimenters becomes the stage for a sequence of deaths so ingenious and bizarre that even seasoned troopers call it witchcraft: invisible knives that fly from the dark, an explosion that erases a man from existence, a vapor that eats leather and flesh, and finally, something buried inside a gleaming plaster model that refuses to stay hidden. Masters must cut through crate-loads of deception-false identities, whispered societies, and vivid misdirection-to find a killer whose art is disappearance itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"A Giant in the Swimming Pool,\" the Tegarth brothers' basement laboratory holds a scientific secret worth killing for: massive centrifuges, sealed tanks of \"heavy\" water, and a private swimming pool wired into the plant. When an elevator is sabotaged, an explosion rocks the lab and a man is found at the bottom of an emptied tank, the scene engineered to look like an impossible accident. Masters peels back staged scenes, slow-acting chemistry and hidden plumbing to expose how someone weaponized invention and timing to turn technology into a murder method-and why a lowly night watchman might risk everything to grab the prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLean, atmospheric, and crackling with period detail, \u003cem\u003eThe Death Messenger\u003c\/em\u003e collects two of Rud's best Jigger Masters cases-detective fiction with the pulpy heart of early-20th-century menace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 204\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48875205820665,"sku":"9781618278593","price":35.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/20vZ7iF20-9781618278593_55138bcf-0e8c-4edd-985c-658a5e0cc4d1.webp?v=1787333395","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-death-messenger-the-complete-cases-of-jigger-masters-volume-4-paperback-4","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}