Private-detective 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.

Private investigator Tom Hart is hired to find who murdered mob enforcer Tony Dietz. The trail leads through jealous lovers, crooked cops, and a loan shark with everything to lose. In a city of neon and lies, Hart must uncover the truth before the next body drops-his own, maybe tonight.

When Irish stumbles across Florence Rice who is about to commit suicide, he unleashes a series of increasingly terrible events. Seeking to prove his new client is sane, Ray discovers a conspiracy involvingthe top state psychiatrist with plenty of political muscle. Soon, he's accused of killing his own laywer after Florence is taken away. Ray's unusual solution saves his client from certain death. However, the results leave him even more cynical about trusting people. As Irish attempts to save his neck from the police and paid killers, the tentacles of Andras extends deeper into the city. Blood sacrifices and seemingly random murders put the citizens of Oyster City on edge. As Andras, in the guise of Peter Smyth asserts his control over his pool of demon followers, he joins forces with a notorious gangster, Jacobi. However, the demon's followers begin to have doubts about their role in the new world. When one cult member confides her fears to Catherine Bennett, Ray's photographer partner, doesn't realize she now has a target on her back. Returning to Oyster City, the shamus must confront Jacobi in a deadly clash that changes everything for Ray Irish. The Ray Irish Occult Suspense series consists of characters who reflect the less-than-ideal social, moral, and ideological standards of historical pulp and suspense fiction. The stories include offensive language and innuendo used during the 1940s. The story contains graphic violence and/or sexual violence and Intended for adult readers. This book does not contain explicit sexual content.

After a hit-and-run occurs outside of his favorite bar, Retired Detective turned Private Eye Josh Slim is asked by the owner to find out the details of the employee's death. While the police are ruling it out as a simple hit-and-run, Slim knows better. When he finds out the victim was quite the ladies' man, Slim teams up with the victim's sexy, single female college professor to find her student's killer.

Detective Michel Hopstar has found himself in a mystery involving the threat letters, from his computer, the S.M.A.R.C tech creator A.T has been sent but when he gets here and A.T has been murdered, the real mystery begins. WARNING DO NOT READ IF ANIMAL ABUSE TRIGGERS YOU!

Anderson is a private investigator on the hard, bleak planet of Mars. When synthetic humans start turning on their masters, Anderson has to figure out why and how. His job is made all the more difficult because clones don't talk -and neither do the dead. Anderson has to decide whether he fears the illegal world of custom-made humans more than he loves paper. And he really loves paper. A hard-boiled, noir private detective mystery with a sci-fi twist. **Making it up as I go so suggestions and guesses on where the plot is going would be helpful.

When a computer programmer, a forensic scientist and a journalist form a group to harm Indianapolis, the Police show the need to personally take them down? Who are they? Are they really dangerous? All remain a mystery until they decide to consult EDITH RYDER, a private detective, who doesn't get involved with the officials, in fact, strongly despise them. But will she help them for the city's sake? GIVE IT A READ AND FIND OUT!

Mallory Bray, formerly known as Audrey Massey, has been in hiding for the last three years. Each day she hopes that the person who is threatening her is put behind bars, so that she can see her brother and boyfriend again. The only problem is that they have no clue who is threatening her, so she has to stay undercover as a private eye. Will she be able to go back to her old life and move forward? Or will she forever be stuck in hiding? Find out in Time Stands Still.

Riggsboro, Iowa. 1980. A young couple is viciously murdered in their sleep. Fifteen years later, a similar grisly killing brings two private detectives to town searching for a connection. Their client? An ailing psychiatrist who believes the murders are the work of an old patient. At the center of it all is a lonely teenage girl named Charlee McCool, who upon discovering an insidious cover-up in the town's past, finds not only her own life in danger, but those whom she loves most. And as a killer closes in, a shady land developer with a checkered past attempts to hinder the investigation, with deadly consequences. Soon all parties discover they are but players in a twisted game, hunted by a madman who knows all their fears, all their secrets--and every move they will make. NOTE: This novel is based loosely on the Halloween series, but the author does not own any rights associated with the franchise. This novel is not to be considered canon, and is in no way affiliated with Trancas International Films, Miramax, Blumhouse Productions, or Universal Pictures. It is an original fan work that merely dabbles in the Halloween universe, taking place between Halloween II (1981) and Halloween H20 (1998). No profit has been made off the material.

'Rev' Parata is a PI stuck in the orbit of the Big Easy in the 1980's. Life is rough, and he's barely fending off racists and criminals when a member of the British aristocracy offers him a case that is too good to be true. Chasing down his mark, Rev finds himself face-to-face with powers beyond understanding and turns to his people's medicine to guide him through.

Lucious "Lucy" Jones is a quirky private investigator who takes a job from a anonymous client to track down a powerful arms dealer hiding in the 90% of North America ravaged by nuclear apocalypse notoriously called the deadlands. He and his best friend, a stuffed unicorn named Ricky, must face gangsters, kingpins, and military officials to find their mark and get paid.

Inspired by the serial comics and novels of old, this story aims to be an adventurous, mysterious, heart pounding, momentary escape from the mediocrity of everyday life. Join our hero for a short, thrilling, new installment daily. Only takes a moment to read, but will keep you coming back for more! Suspense, intrigue, action, romance, mystery, we've got it all!

Self explanatory about people getting in the way of your own goals and your entire destiny is being interrupted by them.

11-year-old MINEVEH MENDEL lives with her uncles, Professor Kreepy and Doctor Krawly of Kreepy Krawly Investigations. She's a super-sleuth with special skills-she hears bugs. Not just their chirping and buzzing, but they'll tell her anything she wants to know. Like what they enjoyed for dinner and how the masked man took the diamonds from the safe.

Dental graduate, Belgrade Jansen has, together with Ruby Wilcox, established a private investigator agency. Solving the case no matter how severe they are.

Johnny Earthquake, a hard-boiled private detective, first appeared in "ALL TOP COMICS" in 1944. It is now 1957 and he and his partner, Rusty, are private detectives in Savannah, Georgia. Johnny just wants to put his troubled past behind him but fate has other ideas.

People missing, a blackmailing goddess, and a defeated god of death. These were the least of Jack Orin's problems. Trapped in a dome with undying mythical creatures from around the globe, and a shadow monster. Jack and the other unfortunate survivors must uncover the secrets of the dome and escape, or become one of its newest victims.

T. J. O'Sullivan is a newly minted private investigator at a small Los Angeles detective agency. When her boss sends her to Honolulu on what seems a routine missing person case, T. J. is thrilled to escape her steady diet of infidelity cases and eager to apply her investigative abilities to something a bit more challenging. However, as soon as she arrives in Hawaii, the case turns out to be anything but routine. T. J. finds herself at the center of a real mare's nest of revenge, betrayal, and trouble involving money and murder. With desperate criminals, the Honolulu police, and even her own client all after her, T. J. has to find a way to save her own professional life and her own skin by solving the convoluted case.

My first one (incomplete) Spy/romance/comedy Marlowe finds herself in a difficult situation after she finds out her boss's son has a really big secret.

He's relaxing in a hotel with his two dogs and a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon when she knocks on his door looking for help. For the next two months he connects with a hip hop record producer, a genius hillbilly coder and his MBA stripper wife, a gambling addict mayor, an alcoholic sheriff, an incontinent police lieutenant, an American Indian network engineer and a Santa Ana street gang . Welcome to the world of Neil Knight, Private Dick. If you like Elmore Leonard you're gonna love Peter Floyd.