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Jim has solved the case of the man hypnotized into committing murder and now his book publisher wants him to go on a month long book signing tour around the country. Jim's books about his adventures in crime solving are doing well in sales. Jim agrees after Penny calls her studio and gets the month off to go with him. They travel across the country and finally end up in Florida in a small town where people wait to meet Jim and Penny. While in this...
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Jim and Penny have retired from their respective jobs and are getting bored. Penny is even wanting a good murder case right now, much to Jim's surprise. A trip to the office results in two missing person cases, which they take. Investigating, they find a third missing person, and all three are connected to a local casino. After talking to Angelo, they find there is a possible heist going to happen at the casino. They bring in Trapper, Earl, Buck,...
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Penny receives an early morning phone call from a cousin who says her husband was murdered in Las Vegas just before the Country Music Award show that was being presented in town. The dead cousin was a country singer who's songs were climbing up the charts and Jim takes the case to find the killer. Things get complicated when Jim and Penny find that the dead cousin was supposedly married to two women and his recording company was doing some double-dealing...
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Percy Isham sat alone late night in his office in Vegas, poring over the new season's television schedule, trying to balance the shows. Isham was the west coast head of programming for the television network that was bringing Penny Wicken's talk show back to national viewing. He finished the schedule and put everything safely away then went to the door of his office. He opened the door and was confronted by a dark figure in the outer room. "What are...
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A shyster is someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law or politics. Jim Richards wasn't fond of either lawyers or politicians. That's what Jim thought about Grisler as he sat in the courtroom, watching the shyster in a divorce case. Alphonse Grisler was a lowlife lawyer in Las Vegas. One day Grisler comes to Jim with a problem. Someone wants to murder him. Jim doesn't like the shark but agrees...
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People are vanishing around Brinnon, Washington in a blue light shining down from above and it seems to be caused by a flying Saucer. That's what a few people believe is happening. Sheriff Dave Chandler is trying to keep the stories of an invasion by aliens to a minimum and he's not succeeding. His wife, Sarah, loves that aliens are attacking the town, it's been getting a little boring. Plus they have taken in a young boy who's brother was taken by...
7) Doyle's Law
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Doyle is a homicide detective. He's a good detective, but he has a problem, he's getting fed up with crime. A hostage situation comes up involving the Mayor of Detroit and a mugger, who Doyle put in the hospital. The hostage exchange goes slightly wrong, but it was enough to make Doyle quit the PD. He goes out on his own to become a private eye and along with another ex-detective, Oscar Drew, they start their business. Their first client is a woman...
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When a man is found dead on the property of the infamous Area 51, the wife comes to Jim Richards to find his killer. Jim takes the case and along with his friend Buck they go to Area 51 to find mysteries on every turn of the case. The killer doesn't like private eyes snooping around the top-secret base and Jim has to resort to dangerous subterfuge while he's on the base to find the killer. Is the death related to the top-secret goings-on in Area 51?...
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Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of the Cold Cases and with his ghostly friend and partner, Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victim's spirits to the hereafter. Russ is given a case by his girlfriend Mary, who transfers from Missing Persons to work with Russ. Together they go out to find a missing boy whose mother was murdered by his abductor. Wes is on the job tracking down leads but even he runs into problems....
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Elvis has left this world. He was barbecued in a pink Cadillac on the Vegas strip and there were no witnesses. But this wasn't the real Elvis, he was an impersonator in a Casino theatre and now Vegas Metro police will have to find the killer. But Lynn Carter, homicide detective calls on Jim Richards to help, there's just too many Elvises in Vegas at the moment with a Elvis fan convention going on. Jim agrees to take the case and then the convention...
11) Doyle's Justice
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Art Doyle, a private eye, having solved his first case after opening up his business, is now hot after a serial killer. Along with his partner, Oscar Drew, they have to keep ahead of the killer since he's been dropping bodies at Doyle's cabin in the woods. What is the reason the killer is targeting Doyle to receive the bodies is still to be determined and the case takes Doyle and Oscar to the woods and then down to the back streets of Detroit. Is...
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A man is found dead in his home, covered in what the coroner says were multiple bites of the Black Widow Spider. But was he attacked by the spiders or were they put on him with murder in mind? A killer is now stalking Texas Hold-em poker players competing in the big World Series of Poker Tournament at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas. Jim Richards is asked to track down the killer by both the police and the widow of the murdered man. After an attempt on...
14) Fatal Outbreak
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Zombies are running amok in Brinnon, Washington. Sheriff Dave Chandler and his new wife, Sarah, are trying to head up the investigation of the outbreak of the mysterious virus that is turning peaceful citizens into ravenous killing machines. The Center for Disease Control has moved in and is putting everyone in quarantine, and the FBI, led by Special Agent Warren Stevens, is hot on the trail of the terrorists who are spreading the virus. Will Dave...
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Detroit Police Detective Scott Murphy and his partner Hadeem McDougan are assigned to find the killer of a young woman in a parking lot of a night club in Detroit. They try to follow the evidence but the evidence isn't there. All trace has been wiped away and all they have is the strangled body of the woman. The next night a second woman is murdered in the exact same way and the staff of the bar didn't see the killer. One bartender offers to give...
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A big talent competition in Las Vegas brings in participants from all over the United States. Millions of dollars and a huge contract is the prize for that one act that will headline on the Vegas Strip in one of the casino showrooms. Someone wants to stop the show, but do they want it bad enough to murder people? Or a judge? Jim goes in search of the killer as Penny becomes a celebrity judge for the contest. Will her life be in danger or will Jim...
17) Lipstick Murders
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Who's murdering the runway models of Las Vegas?
That's what Jim Richards and Deacon D'Angelo are tasked with finding out. One afternoon the Richard's Investigating and Security office is flooded with beautiful runway models all seeking protection after one of their group was murdered. Jim has Buck take over the body guarding of the babes and then ends up involved with solving the murder. Buck also takes over protecting a famous pop singer from a crazy...
18) Toxic Murders
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Trapper's girlfriend Samantha has a problem. One of her female employees is in the hospital with a mysterious skin poisoning and she asks Trapper to help. She doesn't want to bring in the police, she runs an illegal bookie operation. Jim gets involved but has problems of his own. His friends Dave and Sarah from up by Seattle are coming into town to renew their wedding vows and Penny is totally excited to help arrange the wedding. Things got worse...
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"Something Wicked This Way Comes" by the author Ray Bradbury was brought to mind by Jim Richards as a carnival has arrived in Las Vegas and is now the center of his attention for possible criminal activities. Children are starting to vanish and there's a number of jewelry store thefts involving most mysterious circumstances and expensive goods. Jim is asked by the parents of two missing boys to find them. The only clue he has is the handbill announcing...
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Winner of Honorable Mention in the 2014 Halloween Book Festival. Halloween is approaching fast and Jim Richards is asked by his police friend Deacon to help figure out who is murdering one woman every year for the last fourteen Halloweens. They have given the suspect the name, "Trick-or-Treat Killer" but they have no idea who he is. Jim and Earl Daws go on a mission to track down the facts from the first murder that set up the rest of the kills. Could...
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