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Screenwriter Larry Baker visits an island estate to persuade star Trudi Lambert to return to Hollywood. A mutilated corpse, rumors of a curse and devil worship turn the assignment into a struggle to survive the household's dangers.

Rick Holman ignores a violent warning and accepts a movie star's offer to find his missing daughter Charity. Conflicting accounts of her disappearance and a body at a cabin make it difficult to tell kidnapping from deception.

Lawyer Randy Roberts becomes involved with three sisters whose desire for money leads into murder. Protecting his clients becomes a dangerous undertaking as their competing interests place him in the middle of a troubled family.

Lisa Duncan returns from the city to her family's island, hoping to find peace. Instead, unfamiliar people living there draw her into a disturbing mystery, turning her homecoming into an encounter with danger and uncertainty.

Rick Holman searches for a young, wealthy woman connected to a Hollywood coven. A body washes ashore, and his investigation brings him among people mixing drugs, occult rituals and violence, with murder lurking behind their gatherings.

Al Wheeler finds a murdered woman in a shower and another death linked to compromising photographs. The investigation leads into corporate espionage and blackmail, while suspicion turns toward Wheeler, forcing him to find answers quickly.

Rick Holman searches for actress Anna Flamini after her disappearance disrupts a wealthy man's plans for her. What looks like another Hollywood assignment becomes dangerous as gunmen and hidden arrangements complicate the private eye's hunt.

Danny Boyd investigates trouble surrounding an isolated sex clinic where employee Paul Baker disappears with patients' case histories. The missing records create opportunities for blackmail, drawing the private eye into a case built around wealthy clients' secrets.

Al Wheeler sees a murdered woman, then loses the body that would prove his account. His search leads toward a women's liberation group called W.H.O.R.E., while a bizarre kidnapping makes his fellow officers question his story.

Darleen Tracy visits her fiancé's family chateau expecting a romantic reunion, but Raoul has vanished. Relatives who could inherit if the wedding fails greet her with hostility, leaving her to confront a mystery that threatens her own safety.

A man is found shot at Amazon Acres, headquarters of a women's liberation group. Lawyer Randall Roberts tries to protect his clients while investigating, but their hidden dealings make his questions increasingly dangerous to ask.

Mavis Seidlitz encounters former film stars planning a comeback musical in a decaying house with a sinister history. Stories of an old murder and a haunting complicate the gathering as she becomes caught in witchcraft and violence.

A murdered couple is found in a motel room stripped of clothes, luggage and other clues. Al Wheeler traces their connection to a pharmaceutical laboratory, where secrecy and a mysterious formula complicate his search for the killer.

Lawyer Randy Roberts visits a Pacific island where an elderly multimillionaire has gathered seven young women, one of whom will inherit his fortune. Identifying the intended heiress becomes more urgent as the women begin dying under suspicious circumstances.

Ali visits her old friend Joan at Storm Towers and finds the Hailsworth family trapped in fear. Strange behavior, uncertain loyalties and an intruder in the house's hidden passages make it difficult to know whom she can trust.

Danny Boyd follows a cowgirl's plea for help into the hills around Santo Bahia. Three violent men have stolen her family's treasures, leaving the Manhattan private eye to pursue them in unfamiliar territory with danger ahead.

Lawyer Randall Roberts searches for Sandra Stillwell, an heiress living among people drawn to a charismatic commune leader. His efforts become a murder investigation as bodies accumulate and drug deaths threaten to overtake the search.

Rick Holman accepts a phone phreaker's request to find a missing blonde. Confusion about both his client and the woman deepens as a corpse enters the case, making the search far more dangerous than expected.

An all-expenses-paid California weekend draws penniless private eye Danny Boyd into protecting a wealthy heiress from a killer. His assignment grows more complicated as he makes enemies and discovers bodies in the dunes that refuse to stay put.

Al Wheeler has forty-eight hours to find Mrs. Siddell's daughter's killer. Her ultimatum to him and local syndicate leaders threatens a gangland war, while pressure from criminals makes the lieutenant's race against the deadline increasingly difficult.

Mavis Seidlitz impersonates singer Sophie Ventura to draw out criminals trying to force a recording contract. The promised reward is a partnership in a detective agency, but kidnapping and threats make the role increasingly dangerous to maintain.

Burlesque comedian Al Burlington finds himself confronting gangs in the gambling town of Las Perlos. His act and unlikely encounters bring him into criminal trouble, while luck and blunders complicate a mystery told through his own comic account.

Penniless Tracey moves into her family's ancestral home with relatives she has never met. Their cold welcome becomes more frightening after she narrowly escapes death, while the doctor she loves dismisses her fears that someone wants her killed.

Scientist Darlene Bastion visits Cartouche Island to study a disease threatening its sugar crop. At Henri Racine's fortress, hostility, a sinister doctor, and talk of a family curse turn her research assignment into a struggle to stay safe.

An unfinished film's negative becomes the focus of a dispute between two rival groups after its leading actress dies from an overdose. When a man is murdered, Hollywood investigator Rick Holman steps in to untangle the competing interests.

Al Wheeler investigates a shooting victim whose appearance conceals his identity as John Drury, a supplier of drugs with several lovers. The staged crime scene leads Wheeler through prostitution and trafficking toward a local criminal boss.

Trudy Page arrives at Farland mansion to find her friends absent and servants whispering about murder. After a near-fatal rock slide, a painter rescues her, but helping her returning friend draws Trudy deeper into the danger.

A woman is found stabbed in a hotel room booked under another woman's name. Al Wheeler must find the missing guest and investigate the victim's husband, whose industrial espionage business connects him to a circle of wealthy neighbors.

Megan Wentworth accompanies her employer to Count Rienzi's castle, where a tour of its torture chambers deepens her unease. As guests suffer mysterious accidents, even her growing love for Shane Lester cannot dispel the threat around her.

Paul Donavan receives a package containing the severed head of a man linked to professional terrorists. Determined to track down the sender, he confronts a criminal operation whose real leader is difficult to identify.

Nadine visits her college friend Diane on Glencoe Island, where a writer saves her from a near-fatal fire. Finding Diane frightened and changed, Nadine tries to help, but mysterious accidents soon threaten her own safety.

Rick Holman becomes entangled in a world of drug dealers, call girls, and rock stars. Money and death complicate his investigation as he works through the dangerous connections between the people caught up in the case.

In Santo Bahia, private investigator Danny Boyd is hired to locate a missing woman who may have been murdered. His assignment becomes stranger when the supposed victim herself asks him to investigate, putting his own life in danger.

Filmmakers Slivka and Baker travel to England after work dries up in America. A producer offers them a project at his castle, but writing a script becomes the least of their problems when actors begin dying before filming starts.

Gwenefa Carnarvon takes a secretarial job with bestselling author Margrath Manan at Fiddler's Tower. Hostile relatives and her resemblance to a woman lost at sea make the assignment increasingly unsettling, leaving her unsure whom she can trust.

Al Wheeler enters a private investigator's office and walks into a gunfight that leaves the investigator dead. A list of names and a telephone draw Wheeler into a blackmail case involving several people with something to hide.

Gillian Owen accepts a nursing position caring for David Brecon's young daughter at Brecon Castle. Warnings from local villagers become harder to dismiss as Gillian realizes that something in the castle threatens both her and the child.

After her aunt's death, orphaned Denise Leclerc discovers she may inherit a fortune in Canada. She visits her family's chateau despite a warning letter, where suspicion and fear complicate her claim and her growing feelings for Robert Gordon.

Paul Donavan travels to Hong Kong after an old friend asks for help, only to discover his friend is dead. Protecting the man's companion pulls Donavan into further danger as three determined attackers pursue them.

Al Wheeler pursues a sexual predator whose attacks on women have turned deadly. His investigation confronts brutality and murder as he tries to track down the person responsible and stop the violence before another woman becomes a victim.

Danny Boyd becomes involved with a woman who draws him into an unfamiliar group. With identities uncertain and bodies appearing, the private investigator has to work out who is who while navigating the trouble surrounding his new acquaintance.

Irene Demar wins a scholarship to an art school on Cimaroon Island, but a vanished student and an intruder unsettle her stay. A former model warns her to leave as the mansion housing the school grows increasingly dangerous.

Hollywood investigator Rick Holman takes on a case involving blackmail photographs and a client in the film business. The threat spreads beyond embarrassment, putting Holman in danger as he tries to unravel the secrets behind the pictures.

A seductive blonde draws private investigator Danny Boyd into a strange group whose members are difficult to read. As bodies appear, the mystery surrounding their identities turns his involvement into a dangerous investigation.

Danny Boyd is drawn into a wealthy woman's high-powered social circle, where extravagant parties and investments conceal a murder case. The private investigator must untangle the connections between money, pleasure, and violence as his involvement deepens.

After her mother's death, Kirsten Willard leaves the family mansion for Boston and the man she loves. Summoned back to her dying grandfather, she confronts a threatening household and an evil that has already claimed members of her family.

A millionaire falls to his death from a Fifth Avenue apartment, and his widow's valuable jewelry disappears. Danny Boyd investigates the guests present that night, following the case from New York to a country house in England.

Nurse Tracy Stuart agrees to care for her old friend Fiona at Ravensnest. Finding Fiona strangely changed and the house overshadowed by a witch's curse, Tracy stays despite her fears, with a neighboring writer offering support.

Sally Lane witnesses something terrifying at Landsdown and is threatened with death if she reveals it. Trapped by fear in the house, she must decide whether her employer or his nephew can offer the protection she needs.

Al Wheeler loses his job after accusations of rape, assault, and battery. Determined to discover who framed him, the former policeman follows a trail involving two women while trying to clear his name and survive the investigation.

In England, Paul Donavan rescues a naked woman being pursued by a man on horseback carrying a whip. His intervention gives him an unexpected purpose, drawing him into a dangerous affair involving revolutionaries and CIA operatives.

Bernadette Tyson leaves her convent upbringing after a lawyer suggests she may be a wealthy mine owner's granddaughter. At the family mansion, hostile cousins, a night visitor, and suspicious accidents turn the prospect of inheritance into a threat.

Elizabeth Lagrange inherits Corsair Keep, the island castle where she nearly died in a childhood fire. Returning to claim her home brings the promise of romance, but an old evil threatens her plans for a new life.

Lorna Mitchell arrives at Valhalla to translate Johann Richter's autobiography. Others want to prevent the dying man's story from appearing, and winter snow traps her in the Maine house with people determined to keep its secrets buried.

Danny Boyd is hired by Lisa to find her missing husband and money. The appearance of her twin, Kelly, complicates the assignment, leaving Boyd uncertain about his client's identity as he tries to discover what has happened.

Samantha Walton accepts a job cataloging rare books at Finisterre while her fiance is away. His mother's offer places Samantha in a former mental hospital, where growing fear makes her question the household and her chances of leaving safely.

Widow Ellie Morgan hires Danny Boyd to find money her murdered husband hid in Santo Bahia. His attempt to leave organized crime has left Ellie exposed to the mob, and Boyd's search brings him into the same danger.

American tourist Susan Fletcher is kidnapped during a Rhine cruise and taken to Castle Stahlemberg. Her captors demand information she does not understand, leaving her to hope a fellow passenger will search for her while she looks for escape.

Paula Forbury inherits a Hawaiian plantation from an uncle she never knew. At its isolated, deteriorating mansion, her attraction to attorney Stephen Bradford offers reassurance, but fears of spirits and growing isolation threaten her new life.

Mandy Kessler visits a castle to research composer Max Julevin for her master's degree. Suspecting he did not create his famous operas, she pursues hidden truths despite Ross Martin's doubts, placing herself in danger among the castle's secrets.

After actress Samantha is blinded in an acid attack, Hollywood investigator Rick Holman searches for her attacker. The case forces him to uncover the motive behind the violence while working through the dangerous people surrounding the film world.

Elaine Matthews discovers a murdered woman in her family's summer house, and her brother identifies the victim as a recent lover. Al Wheeler investigates connections between the family, the dead model, and an adult photography business.

Danny Boyd dismisses a rock singer's death threats as a publicity stunt until her tour manager is strangled. His investigation into the people surrounding the performer becomes urgent as the threat of another killing grows.

Al Wheeler investigates the murder of a male model whose warning that he was in trouble points toward an illegal club. The case leads him through pornography, prostitution, and wealthy acquaintances with reasons to conceal their activities.

Alicia Baker arrives at an English manor to catalog valuable manuscripts and hears about its legendary Black Baron. After a frightening first night, the ghost story seems dangerously real, leaving her dependent on a lawyer's promised return.

Actress Alison Vaile goes into hiding when something from her past threatens her present life. Investigator Rick Holman follows the trouble surrounding her, uncovering uncomfortable information about the people involved as he tries to understand the danger.

Rick Holman tries to protect Kate Brill, the new head of Stellar Studios, from a party-going circle she cannot easily escape. Behind its drinking and sexual freedom, the group's hold over its members turns pleasure into a trap.

Danny Boyd follows five names while searching for Michelle on behalf of a woman who has been murdered. The missing-person assignment draws him into intimate encounters and opposition from people whose plans make the search increasingly dangerous.

Danny Boyd is hired by Zandra Lyn to find her friend Michelle, who has vanished in Santo Bahia. Zandra's murder makes the assignment more dangerous, forcing him to pursue a missing woman while investigating his client's death.

These two Al Wheeler mysteries involve a secretary found in a coffin and a stunt pilot killed by an exploding plane. Wheeler navigates provocative suspects and hidden motives while trying to determine who was meant to die.

An antiques dealer is shot in his Rolls-Royce after attending wealthy widow Minerva Trent's party. Al Wheeler investigates the guests and hostess, examining a promised financial investment and the relationships surrounding the dead man's business.

Alan Yates recounts his life and career writing pulp mysteries as Carter Brown. The autobiography follows his path to international publication, with fictional detective Al Wheeler interrupting the account to add his own commentary on his creator.

Andy Kane is drawn into competing offers to recover a million dollars hidden off the Chinese coast. Two women and a Chinese associate believe he can retrieve the treasure, leaving him to navigate temptation and danger while deciding whom to trust.