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The young Lennox heiress - glimpsed for a haunting moment on the beach, clutching an oil-drenched sea bird in her arms - has disappeared, and while on her trail, Archer finds himself journeying into the hidden lives of a family twisted by money, power, and a compulsive instinct for infidelity.

When Lew Archer stops for a hitchhiker and finds a young man dying of a gunshot wound, he knows he has stumbled into a mess. In a matter of hours he is suspected by the law, hired by a target-shooting trucking magnate, and chasing a hijacked load of hooch and a band of sinners on the loose.

Meet retired cop, Sam Prichard. Sam opens his practice as a private investigator, and gets his first real case almost instantly: Find Barry Wallace, a local rock singer who was on the verge of making it big, and vanished suddenly! When Barry's body turns up minus his head and hands, the case becomes ominous, and now he has to find a killer, instead! The evidence comes together, and leads to the discovery of the missing body parts on the estate of a well-known talent agent.

Gold Digger is the pilot novel of The Case Files of Harvey Valentine Private Dick. Written in the tradition of old time radio private detectives, and film noir for the modern era. In this novel, the listener gets inside Harvey's head and learns what makes him tick, and discovers the local corruption existing in Harvey's home town.

William Warwick, appena promosso ispettore, ha ricevuto un nuovo incarico che si prospetta assai più delicato e pericoloso dei precedenti. Perché non solo dovrà occuparsi, come al solito, dei crimini commessi in città, ma dovrà anche portare alla luce la corruzione che dilaga all’interno della stessa Scotland Yard. I suoi stretti collaboratori, agendo sotto copertura, si concentrano subito sul sergente Summers, un giovane ufficiale le cui abitudini di vita sembrano molto al di sopra di ciò che si può permettere con lo stipendio da poliziotto.

Fresh off a brutal divorce, he’s swapping handyman services for a roof over his head. Having staggered all his life from job to job, Arch is a newly minted private detective. His mentor throws him his first case specifically because it looks like an easy one. But when Arch starts digging, he quickly finds himself in the middle of a war between Nigerian car thieves and murderous Russians.

My name’s Jack Mason. I made a mistake. I took home the wrong girl, and now she’s dead. Cut up. And they’re telling me I did it. It’s the same cop that tried to take me down 10 years ago. Now, he’s coming at me hard. And he’s not the only one.

The ninth victim in the Bicycle Chain murders is found dead on his living room floor grasping a paper bag containing a pickle. Detective Jack Carter is working on the biggest murder case of his life. Which means, the last thing he needs is to find out that the one woman he has feelings for might be involved in the murders.