James Field: 17 books

Alf, Bert, and Professor Maurice Masterson are minor characters from the 'Cloud Brothers' series. Nonetheless, their lives are so interesting I feel compelled to recount their exploits. Every so often, between the Cloud Brother's major adventures, I plan to release a free short story. Here's the fifth, 'Gypsy Spell', in which Alf and Bert do battle against gypsy magic.

Dr Grenn is a hypnotist, executive, inventor, television personality, and scoundrel. Driven by insatiable greed, he jeopardises the whole world's security and tricks Professor Maurice Masterson into being his scapegoat. Take this short story as a warning, hide it from terrorists, and pray it never comes true…

Is the bell tower suite haunted? Colonel Mortimer doesn't think so, he doesn't believes in ghosts. His club associates dare him to spend a night. Sibyl, the mansion's housekeeper, fears for the colonel's sanity. Alf and Bert, the security guards, can't resist the temptation to give him a solid fright. Nobody expects the outcome.