6/3/2023 0 Comments Ghoul by Michael Slade![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hengler proves a dead end, but the rock group challenges the macho Mountie as his tail of Hengler turns up the remains of a body bathed in acid: Ghoul's singer Rika Hyde? Her older and wealthy half-sister Rosanna Keate? A dalliance with a sexy FBI agent and yet another Keate family member punctuate Chandler's investigation, which, intercut with Rand's and with further London violence, in time takes the Mountie to the English capital. Slade then shuffles in action from Vancouver, where Mountie Zinc Chandler pursues Ray Hengler, a heroin and porn broker who's promoting a punk-rock group known as Ghoul. ![]() In brief blackout scenes, Slade shows the three madmen at work and intercuts to the efforts of Scotland Yard detective Hilary Rand to solve the crimes patent textbook lore (""Modus operandi plays an important part in police investigation."") embroiders the stark accounts of killing and gumshoeing. age boy and following with the axe-murder of a young woman, latest victim of three killers terrorizing London: the Vampire Killer, the Sewer Killer, and Jack the Bomber. Slade gets right to the nasty point here, opening with the burying alive of a teen. Slasher horror plummets to its nadir in this sadistic tale of serial murder from the trio of authors-two of them Vancouver attorneys-who wrote under the Slade pseudonym when purveying 1985's blood-fest, Headhunter. ![]()
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