Arthur Doyle, P.I.

Doyle is a homicide detective. He's a good detective, but he has a problem: he's getting fed up with crime. A hostage situation comes up involving the mayor of Detroit and a mugger whom Doyle put in the hospital. The hostage exchange goes slightly wrong, but it's enough to make Doyle quit the PD. He goes out on his own to become a private eye and, along with another ex-detective, Oscar Drew, they start a business. Their first client is a woman looking for her missing father. But is there more to her story?

Art Doyle, private eye, having solved his first case after opening up his business, is now hot after a serial killer. Along with his partner, Oscar Drew, they have to keep ahead of the killer since he's been dropping bodies at Doyle's cabin in the woods. The reason the killer is targeting Doyle to receive the bodies is still to be determined, and the case takes Doyle and Oscar to the woods and then down to the back streets of Detroit. Is the killer someone from Doyle's past who he did wrong?

In this third of the Doyle, P.I. books, Doyle is hired by the curator of a Detroit Art Gallery. It seems nine valuable Egyptian statues were stolen from the gallery. They were replaced with fakes, and the gallery doesn't want the Egyptians to know their artifacts are missing. So Doyle and his partner Oscar Drew go on a hunt for the missing objects.

Doyle decides to take a huge windfall of money from recovering Egyptian artifacts and take a vacation. He closes the business and go to Paradise, Hawaii. His new girlfriend, Poppy Drake, has decided to go along, and Doyle's secretary, Marge, is invited. Now in Hawaii, on a very secluded, private island, Doyle, Poppy, and Marge are loving the sun, sand, and the ocean, but they are drawn into the murders of guests. Doyle realizes he must solve the killings before Poppy, Marge, or himself become victims. Will he save Paradise before it becomes a living hell?

Halloween is a time for children to go door to door trick-or-treating. For Doyle and his girlfriend, Poppy, it's a time to catch a ghost. Poppy is investigating an insurance claim of a woman who says she was pushed down a flight of stairs by a ghost in a posh but very old hotel in Detroit. She enlists Doyle to help, and they try to get to the bottom of the claim.