On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud ...

A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police inves...

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet...

Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a w...

Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate dra...

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful re...

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi...

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful li...

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his B...

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against expectations. As a New Year's resolution, Bridg...

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally prov...

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...

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

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.

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

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply compl...