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The Man Who Opened Doors: A Cold-Case Thriller
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 21 2026
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The show was cancelled. The killing wasn't.
In 1974, Calvin Reece was the smiling host of Open the Door!, a local game show built on cheap prizes, bright lights and three painted doors.
Then, after one season, the show was cancelled without explanation.
No scandal. No arrest. No goodbye.
Forty years later, documentary researcher Mara Ellison uncovers an unaired tape from the programme's final days - and the name of a contestant who vanished shortly after filming.
The deeper Mara digs, the darker the archive becomes: missing women, hush money, false identities, and a network that chose silence over exposure.
Then Mara discovers her own mother worked at the station.
And kept a tape of her own.
The host is still alive. The women are still waiting to be named. And this time, the story will not give the killer the final close-up.
The Man Who Opened Doors is a dark, intelligent cold-case thriller about television, memory and the rooms that protect dangerous men.
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