One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.

Thula, a detective fleeing police corruption, owes a colleague a favor. A new mission leads him into...

In this romantic thriller, blackmail, kidnapping, and fraud combine to give two lesbian private dete...

Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the co...

An insurance detective encounters numerous surprises when he is assigned to investigate a meticulous...

Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as sudden...

A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the...

A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the ti...

Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch...

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

Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that bel...

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But whe...

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his ...

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack ...

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

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayn...

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

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely...

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern ...

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit th...

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the stu...