1946, the first post-World War II year, finds Tribune police reporter Snap Malek hip deep in a murder case. Someone has stabbed his cousin’s British war bride to death in their Bohemian neighborhood home in Pilsen. As the prime suspect, the meek...
In the shadowy metropolis that is 1938 Chicago, Steve Malek is a Tribune police reporter in a city gripped by the Kelly-Nash political machine and the post-Capone crime syndicate. In Malek’s depression-era world, the Tribune is the largest of the...
Autumn 1948 — the final tense days of the Presidential campaign between incumbent Harry S Truman and Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey. As Truman prepares for a visit to Chicago, Tribune police reporter Steve “Snap” Malek is warned of a...
THE MARILYN TAPES is a powerful novel of the days just after Marilyn’s death... and how J. Edgar Hoover, Louella Parsons, the Mafia and the Kennedy brothers battle each other for possession of the provocative tape recordings secretly made in...
When Santosh Wagh isn’t struggling out of a bottle of whisky, he’s head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world’s finest investigation agency.
In a city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times.
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Cleo Jasper, a beautiful woman in her early twenties, drops out of sight while attending an exclusive school for retarded young people. Shortly before her disappearance she had gone to the office of Tom Aragon, a young Hispanic lawyer, for what...
“That was no lady who cashed that bond... that was your wife,” they told Palmer. The only trouble was, Palmer wasn’t married at the time.
The strangest things were happening. And all of them added up to more trouble. Especially when Palmer...