In Gees’ First Case, Gees, a budding Private Detective—described by the author as pleasantly ugly, tall, with very large hands and feet, though not at all ungainly—finds himself involved in a conspiracy to overthrow the British government. Grey Shapes gets Gees into more mysterious situations as some supernatural (Gees insists it is “subnaturalâ€) force is killing sheep and draining their blood in the north of England. In The Ninth Life, Gees falls into further supernatural trouble. His friend Tony is enchanted by a 5,000-year-old Egyptian priestess—and children keep turning up dead, mangled by giant cats.