Frank Carlson Library

A case which starts out with a missing cat suddenly turns much more serious and deadly when a woman is found brutally murdered.

Arch McNally has discreetly handled numerous seedy cases for his father's elite law firm, but when stodgy millionaire Griswald Forsythe II hires Archy to find the culprit who has been pilfering high-priced objects from his estate, Archy sees a family lifestyle that is decidedly off-center. When Forsythe's sultry daughter-in-law Sylvia is almost strangled to death, Archy knows that there is much more at stake than the disappearance of a few family...

A butterfly tattoo in a very private place could be the key to solving a murder spree in Archy McNally's third case in the sweaty, seedy society of Palm Beach.

While investigating a crime passionnel among the rich in Florida, PI Archy McNally uncovers blackmail. It involves a passenger who did not perish in the Titanic, but escaped in a dress.

"When the Palm Beach Community Theater needs a director for its production of Arsenic and Old Lace, Archy tosses his megaphone into the ring. ... And when an actor sips some prop wine and drops dead, the Palm Beach police suddenly develop a special interest in the local theater scene."--Jacket.

Lawrence Sanders's brilliant creation, Timothy Cone, is a one-of-a-kind stock-market op, a determined guy with a highly evolved sense of justice and a nose for a scam, even in the most refined circles. In The Timothy Files and Timothy's Game, Sanders sends his hard-boiled private eye into the dark side of the New York financial district, where the top guns and the lowlifes are often interchangeable. In this irresistible omnibus edition, Timothy is...