After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.

The wind carries an aspiring healer into a chaotic, virulent parallel world. Paralyzed by a familiar...

A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicat...

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could ...

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not c...

Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in ...

A sheriff begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high rank...

With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after ...

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to u...

Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian i...

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...

In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenac...

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 the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The ...

Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bot...

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

Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. ...

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.