This novella spawned a whole series of popular science fiction/mystery stories featuring the husband and wife detective team, Constance and Charlie. In this gripping story, the duo begins investigating what appears to be a simple insurance scam, but quickly find themselves caught up in a desperate match of wits against a strange woman who seems to have deadly powers. Hugo Award Nominee

Deadly jealousies flair among the members of an Oregon repertory theatre. A man is murdered backstage, and the police nab the wrong person. Husband-and-wife sleuths Constance Leidl and Charlie Meiklejohn must delve into the town's sorid past to find the killer. Simultaneous release with Wilhelm's newest hardcover, The Defense.

Charlie and Constance must figure out who has been setting fire to abandoned hotels, restaurants, and schools around the country. Reprint.

Charlie and Constance are invited to a VERY unpleasant weekend party given in a super deluxe computer (AI) controlled house. The nasty genius who gives the party has arranged they must play a game of Murder. Things go downhill quickly and horribly with bodies and the creeping question ever at hand. Is the HOUSE doing it?

Charlie Meiklejohn and Constance Leidl find themselves in a rural setting, investigating suspects in a series of poisonings directed against a loud but likable pair of lottery winners from the Bronx

Former arson detective Charlie Meiklejohn and psychologist Constance Leidl team up to investigate sculptor Marion Olsen's artist's colony when bodies begin turning up there. Original.

Charlie didn't want to take this case—he hated cases involving crazy wills—but when one of the new clients mentioned that the Bainbridge men are cursed, he knew resistance was Constance could not resist confronting a curse. In a quiet college town in New Jersey, five million dollars in cashier's checks lies hidden in a dead man's house, and whoever finds the checks gets to keep it all. Four family members have four weeks before the house and its contents become the property of a small college. Soon two deaths by drowning from the past and another clear case of murder in the present complicate matters. It takes the combined skills of a superbly trained homicide detective, Charlie, and an equally well trained psychologist, Constance, to unravel the mystery of the Bainbridge curse—and expose a killer.

Wanda believed her murdered husband was communicating with her, using Brother Amos as a go-between. Brother Amos and his daughter Sister Angel were moving into her life, into her home. Charlie and Constance were hired to expose him as a charlatan. The result of their investigation leads to explosive violence that threatens their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives. A computerized cat is the catalyst that starts the action.

What is Ramón’s hold on Carl Wyandot, one of the richest men in the country? Carl’s daughter hires Constance and Charlie to find out why her father intends to give a hidden valley in Colorado to him. In the valley there is the mammoth formation called the Gorgon Field, red sandstone pillars that are unscalable, cover an area a mile and a half from front to back, and reach nearly two hundred feet in height. Why is Constance entranced by them? Why are others so afraid of them?

Charlie is being framed as a serial arsonist, fires that have resulted in five deaths so far. Their search settles on Peter Eisenbeis as the arsonist, a recently released convict that Charlie was responsible for convicting. Also, Charlie was part of the chase that caused massive brain injury to the man’s infant son. Marla, the child’s mother, has cared for the hopelessly bedridden boy for thirteen years with love and devotion. Only she can lead Charlie and Constance to Peter before another fire is ignited or before Charlie is arrested, whichever comes first.