The Crime Spectacuralist — Lester Dent

A FICTION HOUSE REPRINT: Foster Fade, Spectacularist in Crime, solves murders to make tabloid news, but his own name was marked for the obituary column when he followed the sinister trail of the Aroma Assassin in HELL IN BOXES. In the evil garden of the bloodless murder, the Crime Spectacularist kept a rendezvous with the Manchu Curse, only to learn that Death strikes those who call her. Read WHITE-HOT CORPSES. When the Crime Spectacularist followed the trail of the birds whose presence brought death, Fade alone reached the end -- and found his own shroud waiting in MURDER BY CIRCLES.