It's 1963. JFK has been assassinated. The world has changed... and tremors are being felt even all the way in Ballarat. Jean Blake is still adjusting to life after her husband Lucien's disappearance eight months earlier, when she's unexpectedly drawn into the investigation of a pair of bizarre murders. Both cases seem linked to a series of newspaper articles recently published in The Courier and Ballarat's most infamous unsolved mysteries. No one...

Nolte is a rough-edged cop after two vicious cop-killers. He can't do it without the help of smooth and dapper Murphy, who is serving time for a half-million dollar robbery. Both pursue their separate goals--Nolte wants the villains and Murphy wants his money and some much-needed female companionship.

Felix Bush, a Tennessee hermit, is either feared or hated by most of the people that live in the town. One day, he gets the idea to throw one big bash before he kicks the bucket. While he is still alive and kickin' he plans his very own rollicking funeral party.

An innocent-looking young boy mysteriously appears in a nondescript small town as the town recovers from recent storms. A ballet troupe that passed through left him behind and suddenly strange things start happening. He is set to unleash his own reign of terror.

Matt Scudder is an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. When Scudder agrees to help a heroin trafficker hunt down the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime, nor will it be the last. Blurring the lines between right and wrong, Scudder races to track the deviants through the backstreets...

A Healthy Place To Die: Henry is a guest presenter at a gourmet food conference and Maggie is, reluctantly, taking a much-needed vacation. When a journalist staying at the resort disappears and is found murdered, Henry and Maggie team up to untangle a complicated web of mystery. Death Al Dente: San Francisco homicide detective Maggie Price and former, world-class chef Henry Ross are on the case once again. The crime-solving odd couple investigates...

"Crime fiction expert Susanna Lee tracks the evolution of the hard-boiled character type over time and media in the United States. She shows how crime fiction rose in popularity at times of national conflict. Readers and viewers crave the sort of grit and independence that the hard-boiled detective offers when reality may leave them feeling they lack control over their own lives. This is a study of literature and film and also a work of cultural studies"--...

A seaman becomes involved in the murderous intrigue of a crippled lawyer and his homicidal, frustrated wife. Culminates in a shoot-up in a hall of mirrors.

Several accidents and deaths in a small German village just prior to the start of World War I appear to have connections to the suppressed children of the villagers.

Figuring the answers to a murder mystery lie in the old Simmons mansion, so Luther Heggs visits the estate at the witching hour of midnight. Certain he's seen a ghost, Luther writes a story which makes front page news -- and brings on a libel suit from the mansion's owner. When the trial judge orders an investigation -- and no apparition appears -- Luther is branded a fraud. That is, until he and his devoted girlfriend team up to uncover the mystery...