Alan Bernhardt, an actor and playwright moonlighting for a private detective agency, races against time to find a missing woman before the Detroit hitman who killed her roommate, a small-time hood, can reach her

San Francisco stage director and part-time private eye Alan Bernhardt investigates the death—supposedly during a burglary—of wealthy Constance Hale Price, whose eleven-year-old son may know more about her bludgeoning than he says

Private sleuth Alan Bernhardt comes to the aid of Diane Cutler, who had stumbled upon her hated stepfather, Preston Daniels, in the process of disposing of a corpse

Alan Bernhardt, theater director and private eye, becomes embroiled in Mafia-style politics when the capo's illicit—and overly informed—granddaughter comes to him for help. By the author of Except for the Bones.