Hard-boiled Stories

In 1950s Los Angeles, prolific "people-finder", RICK YOUNGE must find an embezzling mob accountant, a missing dead husband (who might not be so dead after all), a mystery by-mail 'secret admirerer', and his own kidnapped dog, all while trying to keep the lights on for another month and stay sober long enough to ponder what life's all about in this debut adventure for L.A.'s most 'by-the-seat-of-his-wrinkled-pants' private detective.

They say the truth will set you free. But what if the truth is buried at four thousand feet? For seven years, Elena Vance has lived a ghost of an existence. Ever since her first love was brutally murdered during a romantic weekend getaway in the Cascade Mountains, she has structured her life around a single, paralyzing phobia: never look up. She stayed in the lowlands. She stayed in the valleys. She convinced herself that if she kept her world perfectly flat, the monsters of her past could never climb down to touch her.She was wrong.When the wealthy trustee of her late boyfriend's estate is found slaughtered on a remote alpine ridge, the nightmare she ran from circles back. The weapon is the same. The jagged terrain is the same. And the DNA left on the victim's jacket belongs entirely to Elena. To see how the mystery unfolds, check out the book 👉

As Adele Milovich struggles to understand the trauma of her past, Lorne M. Carter is sent on a mission to find a missing man. Their journeys intersect in real and virtual worlds as they navigate the human terrain of Los Angeles, 2047. In book 2 of the Reverse Birth trilogy, divergent models of reality open new possibilities across multiple timelines...

They say the streets of Brooklyn are cleaner now. They lied. Nico Moretti is a ghost from a world that no longer exists. After 30 years behind bars, he steps out into a 2026 Brooklyn that smells of plastic and neon instead of coal and sweat. The old rules are dead, replaced by shadows you can't see and enemies you can't touch. But Nico didn't come back to fit in. He came back for what's his. Armed with nothing but his scars and a "high-tech prosthesis" that sees what human eyes miss, Nico begins a one-man war against the new underworld. This isn't just a story about the future. It's about a man who refuses to become a relic. Welcome to the Storm. The wolves are hungry.

A detective must solve a mystery of the disappearance of several people, all whom owned self driving cars. I wrote this story for my Master's. Please enjoy.

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Donald Rabe was hired on by his best friend Bobby-Boy to guard him as he begins his new ministry at a church located in the rough part of town. Knowing Bobby-Boy from high school, Donald is, of course, suspicious of this new vocation that his best friend chose for himself. But he decides to do the job anyway, if only to spend time with one of the few people to understand his inner turmoil. But when one of the church parishioners makes an assassination attempt on the new reverend things slowly start to unravel in Donald and Bobby-Boy's world. Add in an old crush from high school for Donald and the return of his half-sister into his life for Bobby-Boy, and the world begins to get a hell of a lot stranger...

Jim is a private investigator who thought he'd seen it all. He took another easy job for a straight-laced professor and was already counting the money before he was paid. But the device Jim was sent to retrieve is more powerful than he could have imagined. Every notion he's ever had about time and space goes out the window as he struggles to find a way back home.

Everyone in the neighbourhood knew her. Everyone saw her everyday going about her business. Everyone loved her. But nobody knows where she went. Nobody knows what she's doing. And nobody knows if she's safe... except somebody does, dont they?

GAME OF SPADES Paranormal/ Urban Fiction It's 1996 in the Windy City. Summer time. A few million in counterfeit bills are won by Miguel, a sharp mexican Chicago gangster with a quick fuse, in a spades game in Isla Mujeres while on vacation. He decides to use it to take some territory from Snake, an old spades partner he ran long cons with in his earlier years. His plan stirs up fire. Divine, is a charismatic hustler with abnormally keen perception. He knows what's poppin' in the hood before the hood does, but keeps below the radar. Low key. His ' feelers' catch a preview of the heat coming. He forsees in his mind's eye a rush of drama in the streets. Deaths and tricks. He tries to stay out of it, but becomes helplessly attracted to Tomika, a clever, androgynous gangstress. Lost, on the run, and desperate. She has similar abilities. Rhonda, her lover and a ruthless chick, was collecting a trail of bodies with her clique. It was paying well. Getting them both close to the dream of moving out the city and living good. Rhonda, works for Snake. When Snake sends her to murder three of his own men to steal 80 grand in counterfeit bills from. Miguel, she is killed by him personally. This sets off a storm of murder, lies and deception. Divine loses his best friend to the mess and at the same time, discovers a portion of the bills are in his possession. He has to get out of the city. Tomika and Divine decide to unite forces to outsmart their pursuers and leave to realize their dreams.

Maverick hero Ben Malone, is back in another action-packed, thrilling adventure, this time as a Los Angeles private eye. Amid his adjustment from LAPD detective to running his own private investigations agency, a strikingly beautiful blonde carrying a bundle of cash pays a visit to Malone's office with a somewhat curious problem-she witnessed a murder but for personal reasons can't go to the police to report what she saw. Empathetic with her delicate situation, Malone agrees to take on the unusual case for a private detective-finding, identifying, and bringing to the attention of the LAPD, the murderers so that they justice can take its course without involving his client. All in all, in the beginning, the case seems innocuous enough and an easy money assignment, that is until things start to unravel. There are three more connected murders before Malone's investigation even gets started. From there, like an out of control roller coaster, things go downhill fast and from bad to worse. Malone learns that the string of murders is mob-connected. The man believed behind them is a well-connected, heavy hitter, a vicious mob boss in the Los Angeles' Ukrainian criminal underworld who will stop at nothing to eliminate Malone's client. In the initial confrontation with the Ukrainian gangster, Malone is stunned to learn that his love interest, feisty psychiatrist Sara Bernstein is caught in the crosshairs, having been abducted while attending a conference in San Francisco. She is held hostage by the mobster as leverage to force Malone to betray the whereabouts of his client. He also discovers that everything may not be as it first seemed with his attractive client. She may be up to her pretty ears in a little criminal behavior of her own. Malone races against time, first to rescue Bernstein, and then to sort the innocent from the guilty in time to solve what rapidly evolves into a complicated web of deceit and criminal wrongdoing where it seems fair is foul, and foul is fair.

Brooke a girl with no past, blank files,no records. No body knows who she is. What will happen when a so called holiday turns into a deadly mission. Will old secrets be revealed. Will she be able to take her long awaited revenge. Or will revenge get the better of her. Read on to find out. #7 in action

Crime, mystery, adventure? Taking a spitball in the eye? It all starts with the type of dame you want to hold hands with... everything spirals out and down from there.

Five years ago, the whole country knew Howl as the face of a national public safety initiative that encouraged kids to say no to drugs, keep away from firearms, and not talk to strangers. He had just made a dramatic exit from the corrupt pit of the Hot Type City Police Department and kicked off his own private investigative agency. He was geared up to start helping people for real. Then some punk put Howl's nephew in the dirt, and everything came to a screeching halt. Now, after a long downward spiral, Howl is one half-empty bottle of scotch away from complete destitution. His shot at redemption comes just in time when a former model struts off the page of a golden-age girlie mag and into his office. Her missing son's disappearance knocks Howl back into a world full of the drugs, guns, and predators he wasted his youth fighting. This time it will be different. He's got nothing to lose but something to prove. This time, he will win.

“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.” -- Alexandre Dumas "The Count of Monte Cristo"

This public domain work by mastermind Dashiell Hammett was first published in 1930. After the death of his partner, private investigator, Sam Spade, gets mixed up with a crowd chasing a statue of a golden bird encrusted with jewels, an artifact that is practically priceless, but the only thing Spade wants to know is, who killed his partner."

In this hard boiled mystery solving double feature, the bad guys team up with two of the greatest detectives In the world: mystery inc and Tom & Jerry. Ever since mystery inc stop the bad guys, they grown up and apart so shaggy and Scooby are now detectives and with Tom and Jerry since Tom left the bad guys he joins Jerry in a detective agency But the two teams must reunite with the bad guys when: in Scooby doo he and shaggy have to stop a monster that's haunting princess and Tom and Jerry must solving a missing person case the missing person is princess They must work together to solve one of the greatest mysteries ever, but the question Is: Can Mystery inc trust the bad guys to save princess, can Tom and Jerry find princess in time before it's too late

Detective Hammett, Private Investigator. I've been in the business for eight years and I've seen a lot happen in my time. But when my client turns up dead, I take the investigation personally. When it turned out that this investigation is anything but a simple murder, I never expected to find what I did...

A short story based on 1940s noir detective mysteries. Following Doc Marlowe, an uptight detective and witty outgoing Octavia Rodes.