New York: Berkley, (2005). SIGNED first edition - The sixth novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, the author is Walter Gibson, best known as the creator of "The Shadow". "In 1938, while working with Gibson on a film project, Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds, which causes widespread panic and places him in the center of a murder investigation when his mistress is murdered and he is accused of the crime." SIGNED on the title page. Includes a prologue in which Collins talks about meeting Gibson at the first Bouchercon he attended, and a bibliographic essay. 246 pp. . ISBN: 0-425201014.