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HALLAM First Hallam story originally published in The Eyes Have It, and Hollywood Flesh, a Hallam zombie story from The Book of All Flesh. Only 99¢

WILD NIGHT Winner of The American Mystery Award and The Private Eye Writers Of America's Best Original Paperback Award.   Hollywood in the twenties was a fantastic place to be . . . if you were successful.  Lucas Hallam worked two jobs, movie cowboy and private detective.  As a former Pinkerton man and a Texas Ranger, Hallam thought he'd worked on just about every kind of case there was.  Then he ran into Elton Forbes, founder of the Holiness Temple of Faith, a cult with far more enemies than followers . . .  Here's the real Hollywood of the studio days . .  . glamour, glitz, and an underside of dark and dangerous secrets. Only 99¢

DEAD-STICK  Set in the 1920s, this intriguing mystery marks the return of likable Lucas Hallam ( Wild Night ). A stuntman and former Texas Ranger, Hallam is hired by Hollywood producer Carl McGinley to find out who is trying to sabotage his current film, set during World War I. The prime suspects are Ku Klux Klansmen who have threatened Carl for hiring "foreign" flying ace Count von Ottenhausen. But Lucas also finds that the Count's sister, Lorraine, who was a spy during the war, has been seeing mobster Jocko Burke. Lucas redoubles his investigation after a young stunt pilot, Hank Schiller, is murdered, and he unknots an improbable tangle of motives as the players parade into Burke's hideaway, and the secret of the movie set is revealed. With the exception of the KKK smokescreen, Dead-Stick is on target. True-to-life characters with a dash of 1920s seasoning contribute to a satisfying read.    -- Publishers Weekly

DOG HEAVIES   A novel set in the glory days of the Hollywood western. One actor is an ex-gunslinger, a former Texas Ranger, and tough private detective. He is hired by a film studio to take a spoiled New York actor to a ranch in Texas and turn him into a credible cowboy star. Once at the ranch in Texas, the situation is complicated when a ranch hand turns up dead. The local sheriff suspects a Native American actor and so the tough-guy detective takes on the case.

"There is more tension than in a barbed-wire fence."                                     
--The Los Angeles Times

"A striking original detective set against a lush, fascinating narrative backdrop." 
--The Dallas Morning News