Private-detective Stories

WATTY WINNER! Life has dealt city girl Olivia Porter a series of bad hands, but just as she's about to fold, fate intervenes and leaves her with a full house. Out of other options, she takes a gamble and moves to the countryside, hoping Lady Luck will follow along. Olivia's decision to embrace the single life is soon challenged by the arrival of local ace, Tate, and wild card, Warren, but little villages can hide big secrets and somebody thinks Olivia is holding the key to theirs. As her opponent ups his game, Olivia gets one last roll of the dice with the arrival of a leather-clad stranger. Will she hit the jackpot or go bust? Joker in the Pack is a standalone romantic suspense novel from the Blackwood UK series - no cliffhanger! FEATURED by Wattpad. Highest ranking: Mystery/Thriller #2

The "Greys" go on a vacation. Adam stumbles upon the journal which was waiting for him. He has to navigate the world of the Private Investigator - "Marcus Grey". */ Writer's Note This is a sequel to "WALK". I wanted to know what would happen to a guy after a night like that. How can he evade arrest? Which skill sets are going to come in handy? Or does that even matter in a corrupt city like Main Land? /* ©2025 Eshan Mara. All rights reserved. Original work published on Wattpad under the pen name Eshan Mara.

"I've known a lot of people with worse lives than you. It's part of the business I'm in -- I get to see all kinds of human privilege, human weakness, human strangeness...and human trouble." Holden Burke has better things to do than run around in the messy love life of a rich kid who wants to find his runaway fling. But that was before a body turned up in a lake, and someone who has a connection to it seemed to have gone missing. Someone who everyone is searching for... (cw: violence, homophobic language)

Upon investigating the murder of a doctor, a detective meets two young women: a burlesque dancer and an Irish immigrant. Despite the former becoming his concubine, he falls instantly in love with the latter. But it's not just their cultural backgrounds that puts the capacity of a romance on thin ice.

Industrial espionage is the theatre of Charlies activity this time. A business friends competitors seem to know all of the Companies secrets.

He's a private eye without a clue. "A great and humorous kids/young teen story with plenty of twists and tension." Entrada Publishing 'Your On the Fly Private Eye' father and daughter private detective team, Drew and Krista Winnette, are back to solve the case of a missing trucker. It's their first paid gig, and they're thrilled to finally be able to call themselves professionals. But when the trucker turns up dead, and neither his employer nor his wife want to know why, our fledgling investigators get into some seriously sticky - and seriously dangerous - situations trying to crack the case. In this sequel to My Dad, the Private Eye: The Falling Star, rejoin our two bumbling private investigators as they constantly scramble to stay afloat and sometimes even to stay alive. (Make sure to read it to the end for the surprise ending!) If you like Theodore Boone, The Adventures of Jack Lime or a light take on Veronica Mars, you'll love My Dad, the Private Eye. Tweens, teens and even adults will get a thrill out of this middle grade detective series full of fun mystery and funny action.

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.

Ray Irish Occult Mystery - Chapter 1 of Book 1 A corrupt city ran by a political machine. Racketeers and gangsters fight for control of the waterfront. Mysterious, bloody murders occur throughout the city. Black-robed figures are offering blood sacrifices to an unknown demon. Ray Irish has found his home. In the months following World War II, Ray Irish travels from town to town trying to drown the memories of pain and carnage with bottles of whiskey. He is a tramp, and his mode of transportation is the inside of railroad cattle cars. When Irish drifts into Oyster City, a struggling, crime-ridden town nestled along the Chesapeake Bay, a chance encounter in a back alley gives him an unanticipated job as a private detective along with a couple of new suits. Working for the corrupt man he saves, Irish quickly discovers his new home has a polished veneer that barely conceals layers of deception and treachery. Paired with a conniving woman photographer named Cat, Irish descends into a world of grifters, racketeers, and cops on the take. Something more ominous lies behind the tranquil image that is projected by the town elders. The grisly murders of a chauffeur and a policeman are only part of a web of odd occurrences involving strange people wearing the masks of tarot card characters. While Irish battles with gangster thugs who have him in their sights, the ex-Seabee follows a chain of unusual events which might lead to a murderer or his death. He will need the luck of the Irish to survive in a city that hates outsiders.

Everyone loves, everyone loses. So why can't this love and loss seem to be forgotten? "Why couldn't he show up at a less worrisome time, like maybe when I'm reading at home? But no! He had to show up when my best friend is trying to get married!" -Harriet to her best friend in a fast food restaurant bathroom "Of course I still love her! You can't expect me to not! She was my everything for my whole childhood, she was there through it all. She makes me feel a way no one else does. Can you blame me for that?" -Ryder to a stranger in an airport **AUTHOR NOTE Hey it's me, so I'm redoing a lot! The same plot at its center but some details are changing this story is just a fun outlet for me, I am not a professional writer but it does make me happy so I want to share this with you all.

A private detective gets a case about a lost spouse, however before long he realizes that this isn't your run of the mill missing husband.

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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.

My first gig as a PI was something unexpected. Some might even say the sleuthing found me and not the other way around, and they would be right. When some days were swept away from my memory, figuring it out was all I could think of and that led me to him, the most handsome man I've ever seen. Could he help me untangle this mystery of missing days or was he going to be swallowed in full by it? I could tell he knew something was off from the moment he saw me, and I hoped he was the one to solve it.

I should never have taken the case.

Private eye Regina Marshall takes a case to perform a due-diligence search for the birth mother of an abandoned baby found at a grieving college professor's house, a woman whose young daughter has been recently murdered. But when the investigation dead-ends a week later, Regina's task changes to a more gruesome job: The professor, about to win custody of the baby, can't move on from the tragedy of her young daughter's death the previous summer, a death now being tried in the local court; the accused a former student whom Regina comes to believe is not guilty. Reluctant at first, Regina comes to realize that she has landed in the middle of a sinister struggle in which she is an unwilling pawn. But the young investigator isn't alone as she lives and works in Marseilles, Texas; she has her cousin Val and her best friend MPD Sergeant John Wesley to help her navigate the rough waters ahead. Determined to find justice for two victimized children no matter the cost, Regina comes to see the bitter truth that often lies at the heart of those we call family.

These are the rules created from personal experience and mistakes caused by me, Investigator in training, Brennon Davis. You do not have to follow this rule sheet, but they could help. The question you have to ask yourself, when does a metaphor go too far?

Just a couple of hilarious stories. Enjoy! If you guys make any full scale stories out of these make sure to tell me and I'll be sure to read and follow you!

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Tristan Young is, by all logical conclusions, a failure. His dream career of private investigation has left him with nothing but debt and an empty office. So when a mysterious phone call makes him a grand promise of fame and success, the decision to accept is simple. There is only one price for his ambition: one night in the local manor, and one dinner with five strangers. Easy enough. Until, sometime in the dark, the price turns bloody. With one of the party's attendees now dead and no other suspects but the remaining five, they are all thrust deep into a murder case riddled with secrets. For Tristan, it should be his fantasy come true; he finally has a puzzle to solve and a chance to put his skills to use. But the games in his head never placed himself as a puzzle piece. The game becomes a race. He has to clear his name and win what he was promised before it's too late. -♧- Written for the Open Novella Contest 2023, using prompt 49. -- ONC Shortlister -- [cover art by the amazing @-aceospades-]