'Without any ceremony the killer turned Vera over on her face--and with one strong hand ripped the satin jacket of her pyjamas straight down from the collar, the two halves folding gently to each side. The back of the dead woman lay clearly revealed in the lamplight. Low down upon it, perhaps three inches below the level of the shoulder blades, was a tattooed name--"MARY."' "Mary," "Ian," "Lil." Three rather ordinary names. But when these names are each found tattooed on the backs of three murder victims, they are steppingstones on a murder trail that baffles Scotland Yard investigators.... A story that grips from first page to last, THE TATTOO MURDERS is one of John Russell Fearn's finest detective mysteries! 'By far this is the most mature detective novel of Fearn's I have read.' - PRETTY SINISTER BOOKS John Russell Fearn was an extremely prolific and popular British writer, who began in the American pulps, then almost single-handedly drove the post-World War II boom in British publishing with a flood of science fiction, detective stories, westerns, and adventure fiction. He was so popular that one of his pseudonyms became the editor of Vargo Statten's Science Fiction Magazine in the 1950's. His work is noted for its vigor and wild imagination. He has always had a substantial cult following and has been popular in translation around the world. He passed away in 1960 at the age of 52.