Back for a third terrible try at conquering the world, Rance Mandarin—the malevolent Zombie master feared by all sane men as Doctor Death—has returned from the grave. Sworn to hurl civilization back into a new Dark Age, Doctor Death has conceived a weird new scheme to achieve his diabolical ends. When the body of the Vice President of the United States arrives at the White House with a note demanding the nation be turned over to Doctor Death, supernatural detective Jimmy Holm understands that a decisive new phase in the war between Mandarin and the Secret Twelve has begun. For the slain Vice President has been shrunk to the size of a rag doll! While the dread enormity of the new menace is sinking in, the Secretary of State begins shrinking before their horrified eyes! This is only the beginning of The Shrinking Murders…