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Adventures by Morse! Cautini Morse presents... Deadman Prowl, featuring Captain Friday. If you like high adventure, come with me. If you like the stealth of intrigue, come with me. If you like blood and thunder, come with me.

Two days ago, Captain Bart Friday and his friend and guest, Dr. Croft, arrived in the Little Resort Village of Holman, across the bay from San Francisco. They had intended spending a quiet weekend at Captain Friday's summer cotton, but they had no sooner arrived in the village when things began to happen.

On the beach they stumbled on the dead body of old Doc Simms. They found Andrew Waters, the other wealthy man of the village, dead by hanging. Then they found a half-wit heartly boy shot through the heart.

The weird part of the whole thing is the fact that these three dead are apparently prowling the streets and houses of a town of Holman. That right, Captain Friday? Yes, that's right. I've tried everything.

Handcuffed them, tied them down, even stuffed the three bodies in the refrigeration room at the morgue. But it didn't do any good. They're still prowling. The only thing I know for certain is that Doc Sims and Andrew Walters are brothers.

Walters had been masquerading under an assumed name. The half-wit heartly boy had been accidentally shot by Andres Ruiz. I've smoked out that much, plus the fact that our other guests, Andrés, and Carmel Ruiz, and Gail and Martin Stanley are related.

But this latest development has just about got me stumped. Carmel Ruiz has disappeared. Yes, Carmel Ruiz has disappeared. The prowling dead have taken the little cousin of Andrés. Death stalks in Holman. While Dr. Jamie Croft lay bound and gagged in Captain Friday's cottage, and while the Captain Andrés were racing along the coast of the Pacific to bring back the runaway Martin and