Thomas Gallagher

The Wrong Box -- In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other... or can be made to have seemed to do so!

The Day of the Triffids -- Chaos results when experimental plants escape and start attacking people!

In 1949, an American writer of westerns, Holly Martins, arrives in post-war Vienna to visit his old friend Harry Lime. On arrival, he learns that his friend has been killed in a street accident, and when he meets Calloway, chief of the British Military Police in Vienna, he is informed that Lime was in fact a black marketer wanted by the police. He decides to prove Harry's innocence, but is Harry really dead?

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime.