The inimitable Charle Chan of the Honolulu Police follows a trail of murder that leads from the London slaying of a Detroit automobile tycoon, to the French Riviera, Calcutta, San Remo, Yokohama, and Hawaii. -- Novelist.

First, a fishing trawler runs aground on the Massachusetts shore. Then a young scuba diver sent to investigate the wreck is found dead in the water. Doc Adams, a friend of the dead diver, sets out through the stormy seas and blood-flecked sands of Cape Cod to plumb a murder he should have prevented. There he uncovers a hidden treasure in illegal arms and is nearly killed in the process. Doc lets the world think he's dead, the better to hunt for the...

A malfunctioning alien probe is running amok on Earth. Two detectives try to stop the killing but no one will believe their story.

A serial killer terrorizes the young women of Nottingham Shirley Peters was murdered in her own home. A directionless young woman with a fondness for cheap red wine and a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, her death is just another in the files of the Nottingham detective's bureau. The police round up her ex-lover without much fuss, and are preparing to try him when another body surfaces. The method, the target, and the extreme violence...

Constance Leidl and Charlie Meiklejohn, persistant private investigators, discover that the placid woods of Spender's Ferry muffle a jungle of secrets.

A celebrity scholar in a small village tears her nephews from their immediate family and raises them in an atmosphere of cruelty, and when a grown nephew returns to the village twenty years later, he sees that his aunt has come full circle.

West Coast literary agent Charlie Greene is on the case when an unexplained murder baffles the local cops-and brings out Charlie's blossoming psychic gifts   Raising a fast-maturing teenage daughter, keeping up with the mortgage payments, and trying to launch a successful Hollywood career would be difficult for anyone. But Charlie Greene has an additional, more unusual challenge to deal with: her emerging abilities as a clairvoyant. And when Gloria...

A man found bloodied in the street is the newest victim of a brutal crime spree Although the cop who finds the man in Alfreton Road describes him as "absolutely stark bollock naked," that is not quite true-he is wearing a sock. The naked man is flabby, middle-aged, and bleeding heavily, in no shape to be sprinting down the street at three in the morning. After the ER doctors patch up his stab wound, the man tells the police he was attacked by a prostitute....

A novel on youth violence in Britain, the villain being a 15-year-old boy specializing in robbing the old. Soon after his arrest he is found hanging, then the investigating police officer is killed. Inspector Resnick sets out to find the connection. A social novel as well as a mystery. By the author of Cold Light.

Sharon Ortega, an old school chum of Charlie's, hires Charlie to prove that her dead restaurant partner, David, didn't commit suicide. David's recent, keyman life insurance policy won't pay for suicide, and Sharon needs the money to keep the business going. Charlie uncovers evidence of tax fraud, high level political connections, and two distinctly different sides to David's life. Amidst a confusion of relatives, she also discovers that members of...