Justice Inc - The Avenger, Bk 1 Author:Kenneth Robeson A gang kidnaps wealthy Buffalo residents, drops them from a plane over Lake Ontario, and holds them prisoner on an island, all to get control of a Buffalo company. — Richard Henry Benson, aggressive, dominating, cold-eyed, self-made millionaire adventurer, forces himself and family onto a Buffalo/Montreal flight (mother-in-law is dying). He goes ... more »to the washroom and his wife and daughter vanish. The other passengers deny having seen them. A frantic Benson is subdued and hospitalized with "brain fever" and head trauma. Recovering, his face and hair are white, his flesh paralyzed and malleable. Investigating, he meets MacMurdie, who DID see Benson's family, and Smitty, who agree to assist him. The three of them end the scheme, but Benson's wife and child are not found alive. The three form Justice, Inc. to bring criminals to justice.
Paul Ernst writing under pseudonym Kenneth Robeson.
Kenneth Robeson: a house pseudonym used by Street and Smith Publications-used by Lester Dent, Paul Ernst, Ron Goulart, Will Murray.
First published in The Avenger pulp magazine in 1939.