Resurfacing from a boozy haze in a cheap motel, Russell Murray must discover why the Illinois police want him for a triple murder and why a Chicago crime family wants his briefcase, with only the attractive Sherry Lou Winn to help him. Original.

Smalltown Texas becomes the setting for a humorous and suspenseful mystery in which a barking dead dog is found wired up at full volume, townspeople begin turning up dead in bizarre ways, and it is local hero Jack Track's job to find out why. Reprint.

Notified by an anonymous caller that his father has died and to stay away from the family home in Texas, Wiley Moss promptly journeys to the teeming West, where he encounters everything from a redneck porn king to a Whitney Houston look-alike.

An Idaho mobster kidnaps an insect illustrator Wiley Mass and asks him to paint tasteful poses of his eighteen livein beauties, but when hoods start dropping dead all around, Wiley must try to get out of Idaho in one piece. Reprint.