Private Eye Mysteries

This is New Orleans - 1947. It starts as a wandering daughter case when a pretty widow hires New Orleans private eye Lucien Caye to find her 22-year-old daughter. Helen Croix walks into Caye's office with a picture of her missing daughter, Madelyn. She warns Lucien he'll be tempted when he finds the alluring strawberry-blond temptress. Madelyn Croix will most likely seduce him. Helen describes her daughter as rapacious. Lucien has to look up the word to discover it means avaricious, greedy, ravenous - subsisting on live prey.

Into thin air.... Ramon's favorite lawn chair has disappeared! He saw it on Monday. Where could it have gone?

This sounds like a case for the High-Rise Private Eyes: Bunny Brown and Jack Jones, ace detectives and very best friends!

Serious trouble is brewing in Brighton, California, a sprawling coastal community on the eastern edge of the Los Angeles Basin: Its Mayor has just been murdered, and the chief of police has resigned amid rumors of corruption in his department. Now, ex-police officer Joe Copp has been hired by an old friend, the current Brighton City administrator, to get to the bottom of the municipal mess.

A year ago, beloved cheerleader Stella Blackthorn vanished without a trace. Devastated, her younger sister, Iris, launched her own investigation, but all she managed to do was scare off the police's only lead and earn a stern warning: once she turns eighteen, more meddling means prison-level consequences. Then, a year later, the unthinkable happens. Iris's ex-girlfriend, Heather, goes missing, too - just after dropping the polarizing last episode of her true crime podcast all about Iris's sister. This time, nothing will stop Iris and her sleuthing agency from solving these disappearances.

A serial killer is terrorising the senior citizens of Denton, and the local police are succumbing to a flu epidemic. Tired and demoralized, the force has to contend with a seemingly perfect young couple suffering arson attacks and death threats, a suspicious suicide, burgularies, pornographic videos, and poison-pen letters.

Private detective Peter O’Keefe, a physically scarred and emotionally battered Vietnam vet, is hired by childhood friend and attorney Mike Harrigan to investigate what appears to be a petty mink farm Ponzi scheme in the Ozarks. But quickly O’Keefe finds himself snared in a vicious web of money laundering, cocaine smuggling, and murder—all at the behest of a mysterious mobster only referred to as Mr. Canada. Also caught up in Mr. Canada’s illicit network is the exquisite Tag Parker, who seems to dance between roles as the woman of O’Keefe’s dreams—and his nightmares.

The mayor’s brother is missing. A transit cop lies beaten and blinded, her service weapon stolen. A new series of graffiti tags are appearing, linked to an underground group calling themselves The Death of Kings. Class warfare has broken out on the streets of Vancouver, and PI Dave Wakeland finds himself on the front lines―but unsure which side he’s on. Reeling from a bad breakup, and increasingly alienated from the city he calls home, Wakeland nevertheless agrees to look for the missing gun.

In this series, step into the world of intrigue, where bloodlines converge and ancient echoes whisper. Jewels Nefertiti awaits, her story unfolding like a scroll unrolled by time.

Melvin's lucky fluffy dice are missing. Without them, he can't drive his bus. How will his passengers get around town? Who need so much extra luck? This sounds like a case for the High-Rise Private Eyes - Case #006, to be exact, the case of the fidgety fox.

A devil haunts the City of Angels, and the most unlikely of detectives is on the case.1947: While Los Angeles is mesmerized by the sensational Black Dahlia murder, an Asian boy’s mutilated body is found in a back alley of Chinatown. With the thoroughly corrupt LAPD unwilling to devote their already strained resources to cracking the case, it seems this grisly crime is destined to remain unsolved. Tommy “Dapper” Luoo, a Chinese American college student, has dreams of becoming a private detective. Incensed and frustrated by the police’s lack of concern, he decides to help his ...

Jack Frost was supposed to be on holiday, but with one child dead and another reported missing, there was no chance, no matter how much it pained Chief Superintendent Mullett to recall his scruffiest, most irreverent officer to duty. Had the same person taken both boys? Was there any connection with the pervert who silently entered houses at night to stab babies in their cots? Questions, questions and more questions. And so very few answers.

Don't toss out the cake and candles just yet. Philip Roth, who, among other notable achievements, changed the way Americans laugh about masturbation, celebrates his birthday on March 19th. Check out: I Married a Communist and Operation Shylock.

IT WAS A SIMPLE INSURANCE INVESTIGATION -- UNTIL THE LIES AND BODIES STARTED PILING UP! Alton Rhode starts out in a Northern nursing home and winds up in a Southern town, where a military academy may be more soiled than local Civil War statues covered in bird droppings. He uncovers a twisty financial conspiracy involving radioactive isotopes, sex, and murder. "ALTON RHODE MYSTERIES ARE IN A CLASS BY THEMSELVES.” (John Crudele, New York Post); “A LAWRENCE DE MARIA TITLE GIVES YOU MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK THAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING IN THE BOOK MARKETPLACE TODAY.” (Florida Weekly); “A ...

As a former police detective turned PI, Sam Arbichaut has seen it all. Having moved from Florida to Portland, Oregon, for a new start in life, he spends his days fighting middle-age spread and investigating whatever civilians pay him for. When his latest job takes a homicidal turn, Sam soon figures out this case is anything but the usual... and finding out what the real story is might just cost him everything.

Fresh off solving the biggest case of his career, Private Eye Maxwell Floyd’s life has completely changed. Old habits have died hard. Late one night, the beautiful Helena Krivka shows up at Max’s office, distraught over the disappearance of her husband. Lukas Krivka is a senior developer for a multitrillion-dollar software company, and it seems he’s gotten involved with the wrong people. Worried the man’s wife is in danger as a result, Max takes the case. Clues to Lukas’ fate lead Max into a dangerous game of intrigue with the Lithuanian mob and a deadly Russian assassin.

Ex-federal agent turned vampire detective, Samantha Moon, finds herself investigating one of the strangest cases in recent memory. An unsuspecting client finds out he was murdered in a past-life...by one of the most notorious killers in history... Jack the Ripper. Now that same evil entity is back and chasing her client through time, ready to kill again. But the Ripper is no ordinary killer. With help from her best friend, Allison, and boyfriend, Kingsley, Sam delves deeper into the world of black magic than she ever has before to save her client's life. With time running out, the killer ...

Casey Derry has a gambling habit, and he knows he’ll get lucky one day if he just keeps trying. If only he can win big, he and his wife, Jen, can live happily ever after with no more worries, no more money problems, and no wondering whether they’re going to lose their house and live on the streets. With the last roll of the dice, he loses once again—his money and his dignity. It’s time to go home with his tail between his legs and endure Jen’s wrath and verbal abuse.

One lonely night, after suffering yet another seizure from the bullet lodged in his brain, private investigator Jim Powers comes across a very unusual man— A man with a living dragon tattoo. A man who offers Jim a deal he can't refuse. What begins as another night of his own private hell, quickly turns into something very real. Jim Powers is about to discover that the world is a much darker place than even he'd thought possible. Monsters exist...and so does something else, something far worse. He's about to discover that the Devil is real, and the Prince of Lies has a deal for Jim. A hell...

Charles Warner Kennedy O'Brien, or Charlie to his friends, is a private investigator, or a private eye as he prefers to be called. This is the third novella in his Trilogy about the quite prestiegous and very lovely retirement community of Laguna Woods Village, California. It is located half way between big and bustling Los Angeles, and the beautiful and laid-back city of San Diego. A very famous and very wealthy heirest has been Kidnapped by a evil drug cartel from Ensenada, Mexico. 1. A Mystery in Laguna Woods.2. A Theft in Laguna Woods.3. A Kidnapping in Laguna Woods (herewith).

A Charles Warner Kennedy 'Charlie' O'Brien, Private Investigator mystery novel. It is an crime-fiction genre book. Second in the quite suspenseful series. This particular episode has Charlie in beautiful Mexico working on a case to rescue a bank Chairman and his family from ruthless narco trafficker's. They have demanded a $3,000,000.00 ( Three Million US dollars, not dinero's) ransom for their safe return, or they will send the C.E.O.'s body back to his big bank "in little' pieces.SECOND EDITION.