Preston Hauser, owner of a famous department store, asks his head of security, Quint McCauley, to investigate some threatening letters he has received. No sooner does Quint take on the job, than Preston is poisoned by one of his own vitamin pills. With Quint looking on. Suspicion falls on Hauser's young wife, Diana, but Quint quickly learns she's not the only one who might benefit from the millionaire's death.

'Brod's settings and dialogue are realistic and believable.' - Publishers Weekly. Police Chief Ed Carver makes no bones about wanting to run privateinvestigator Quint McCauley out of town when a Circuit Judge is found dead and it emerges that Quint has an interest in the policeinvestigation. Carver seems anxious to classify Markham's death as suicide but Quint has been hired by Markham's widow, who stands to gain a million dollars in insurance payments if he can prove it's murder. Qunit, who finds support in some new and unlikely companions, uncovers a trail of corruption and tragedy.

When an Illinois land developer is murdered, the police blame an environmentalist named the Blue Fox, whose real identity is a secret, but reporter Jeff Barlowe thinks others are guilty and asks private investigator Quint McCauley for help

Quint McCauley becomes embroiled in the long-time feud between Jubal Tanner and his brother, mayoral hopeful Brig, when he is asked to find out who killed Brig's girlfriend while trying to kill Brig.

When Kurt Wicklow disappears was it a case of an investment advisor absconding with his client’s money or was foul play involved? And when the wife of Foxport’s former chief of police and a ''good friend'' of Wicklow’s turns up dead, things begin to add up. And Quint finds himself trying to prove the innocence of a man who has just moved in with Elaine, Quint’s former lover.