Ghost of a Chance by Kelley Roos

What this mystery is about…

… A MURDER that is about to take place any minute—but which of New York's three million women is to be the victim … A MATCH PACKET on which an important message is printed … A DEAD MAN who holds the only available key to an imminent murder … A HORSE'S NAME tattooed on a dead man's arm … A PRISON in a boarded-up house … A PAIR OF SHOES with a man in them waiting for a girl to come just a little closer … A GARAGE DOOR put to an extremely uncommon use … A SCRIBBLE on a hatbox which is an innocent appointment with death.

Wouldn't you like to know …

How to get to a victim-to-be when the only blessed thing you know about her is that she is going to be murdered any minute? Why kindly old Pop, who was a friend to everyone—and to no one—was so desperately worried?

What convinces Jeff and Haila that two more names have been added to the killer's list? Why the man with the blinking eyes behaves as he does? How to escape alive from a house of murderers? YOU will learn the answers in this absorbing mystery story which is an entertaining mixture of wit, lively action, thrills, and suspense.

Jeff and Haila Troy are as delightful a young couple as ever set out to foil a mob of killers.