Rick Holman Books in Order

Hollywood star Zelda Roxane brings together people whose lives she could ruin, including former husbands and a revolutionary general. Trouble-shooter Rick Holman enters a dangerous gathering where old relationships and threatened reputations provide motives for murder.

Magazine publisher Carter Stanton runs an exclusive club, but threats interrupt his life of parties and women. Rick Holman investigates the people around him as a suspected attempt on Stanton's life turns into deadly trouble.

After a movie star threatens the blonde actress who took her role, attempts on the rival's life create a scandal. Rick Holman is hired to straighten things out, only to uncover a dangerous conspiracy.

Rick Holman is hired to keep a starlet's affair with her leading man out of the newspapers. When bullets strike their Hollywood hideaway, the publicity problem becomes a dangerous mystery with the possibility of murder.

A movie starlet and her leading man disappear together into a Hollywood hideaway, and Rick Holman must contain the scandal. Gunfire aimed at the couple turns his discreet assignment into a far more dangerous investigation.

Actress Fabrielle Frye is preparing a comeback and a marriage to a millionaire when her missing husband returns. His demand for a fortune in exchange for divorce brings Rick Holman into a case of blackmail.

A man remembers taking a dancer from a party and finding her dead after he blacked out. Everyone else insists she never existed, leaving Rick Holman to investigate conflicting accounts of a woman and a possible murder.

A dead psychiatrist's recordings expose the private secrets of Hollywood celebrities, leaving them vulnerable to blackmail. Rick Holman investigates a scheme whose demands take an unusual turn: the price of silence isn't simply money.

Rick Holman expects a chaperone to keep a film actress out of trouble, but Kathy Frick proves unsuited to the task. The actress disappears, leaving him to find her before a dangerous situation turns fatal.

Artist Harold Loomis repeatedly paints his model Angie as a murder victim. When she is actually killed in a way matching one of his canvases, Rick Holman investigates the disturbing connection between art and death.

A film actress slips away from the chaperone meant to watch her, giving Rick Holman a new problem. Finding the missing woman becomes urgent as the circumstances around her disappearance suggest someone may be willing to kill.

Rick Holman checks a rising movie star's prospective husband at her manager's request. Shady entertainment deals and family jealousies complicate the assignment, then a fatal fall makes him question whether an apparent accident was murder.

Rick Holman investigates why singer Julie Marchant has rejected an offer from a powerful impresario. What looks like an unusual career decision draws him into a sinister circle of women, a troubled psychiatrist, and apparent witchcraft.

A playwright hires Rick Holman after a talent agent threatens to expose an allegedly plagiarized play. Blackmail jeopardizes his career, and Holman's search for the truth draws him into a circle of suspects and murder.

Rick Holman faces suspicious deaths surrounding an actor and the men connected to him. A woman determined to attack the detective and another followed by a killer complicate a case already full of volatile relationships.

When Hollywood star Leola disappears, Rick Holman traces her to a millionaire's Riviera yacht. Her husband's accusations don't fully explain the situation, and probing the apparent scandal makes the detective a target for something more dangerous.

Hollywood troubleshooter Rick Holman has three days to protect comedian Sam Sorel from a death threat. Women from the comic's past become suspects, and Rick must untangle their grievances before someone's promised revenge becomes murder.

Rick Holman is hired to find a movie star's runaway sister. His search through Hollywood leads into drugs, attempted murder and a trail of bodies, making a missing-person assignment increasingly dangerous for the private investigator.

Rick Holman investigates the death of actress Fleur Falaise, whose marriage to a director with disturbing tastes complicates the case. Looking into her past brings him among dangerous people whose secrets are protected with threats and gunfire.

Rick Holman is hired by a prospective groom to find his missing bride. The Hollywood investigator's search takes him from Malibu estates to secluded mountain cabins, through a case involving starlets and people with reasons to conceal the truth.

Actor Evan Curran believes his astrological chart predicts his murder and hires Rick Holman to prevent it. Real enemies complicate the apparent superstition, while the investigation leads Rick back to a fatal car crash in England.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.