A dying art collector asks Bernhardt to revisit him in his darkest hour The first time Betty Giles went missing, her employers wanted her dead. They hired Alan Bernhardt, theater director and sometimes PI, to find her, but when he discovered their scheme, he drew a sawed-off shotgun to save her life. Now Betty's missing again, hiding somewhere in Europe, and her old bosses want her found. Will Bernhardt deliver her to the man who once tried to have...

Honey-seventeen years old, vivacious, wealthy, a politician's daughter-has a penchant for drug dealers, mad-dog bikers, booze, sex, crank, and guns. She's run off with Cobra, the leader of a band of motorcycle-gang outcasts who have dubbed themselves the Outriders-having been too hot-headed and reckless for rival gangs. But her father, who is running for the US Senate, wants her back before she takes his career down in flames. Enter Scott Weiss and...

Back on his family farm, John Marshall Tanner investigates a murder that hits very close to home It's been thirty years since John Marshall Tanner, private eye, returned to Chaldea, and he hasn't missed the farm-three hundred acres of thin topsoil and ratty growth-any more than he's missed his family. There's his sister, Gail, worn down by decades of trying to do the right thing; his brother Curt, wallowing in depression ever since his son, Billy,...

"When Nameless is hired by Cory Beckett, a beautiful young woman who claims to be a model, to find her missing brother, Kenneth, it seems to be a routine matter. Kenneth has fled San Francisco in a drug-induced panic to avoid trial on a charge of stealing a valuable necklace from the alcoholic wife of the man for whom he works, wealthy yachtsman Andrew Vorhees. When agency operative Jake Runyon locates and questions the frightened young man, Cory...

In Seattle, PI John Marshall Tanner probes the world of computer pornography to find a man's missing daughter. The daughter is a model who abandoned traditional modelling for the thrills which this new industry offers. By the author of Southern Cross.

Detective John Marshall Tanner must track down California model Teresa Blair, the only reliable witness to a hit-and-run "accident" perpetrated by Mob boss Tony Fluto.

"Nikki Griffin, a private-investigator when she isn't running her small bookstore, is on a case. The matriarch of one of the wealthiest San Francisco families has been defrauded by a con-man, and her furious son enlists Nikki to find the money. And find the con-man. Nikki isn't a fan of men who hurt women. Her secret mission, born of revenge and trauma, is to do everything she can to remove women from dangerous situations-and to punish the men responsible....

Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her. They die -- violently. Is she the victim of a family curse? The Continental Op, the best private detective around, has his doubts.