When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starti...

When the residents of a neighborhood are offered huge sums of money to sell their homes to a develop...

Private detective Dirk Trent, a collector of cigarette butts, a "smooth" ladies man, a wearer of bad...

Lt. Bobby Quinn is a Special Forces commando killed during a recon mission in the Cambodian jungle. ...

A Los Angeles lawyer defends her former college roommate, whose husband — her lover — has been slain...

While diving for sunken treasure, street-smart gumshoe Tony Rome finds the body of a gorgeous blonde...

Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tri...

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses....

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against ...

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with t...

A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob...

Seattle medical examiner David Krane is obsessed with solving his wife's murder. A possible solution...

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while...

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders...

When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to ...

The successful publicist Adam Vance of the SFC is in the middle of a campaign to get an important Ja...

On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after th...

This is a story about a woman. The people around her remember her differently and tell different sto...