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Charlie owed Joe Sligo $3000 from his gambling and Sligo's motto was pay up or die. Charlie has a family…
and kids to think about and has been in debt for 6 months. Now he turns to Randy Stone for help. Randy Stone knows that the police are looking for Sligo and tells Charlie his only hope is to let the police know where Sligo is
It was a busy Wednesday night. Barnes on the city desk asked me to lend a hand and I filled…
in for a couple of hours. I'd just finished taking notes over the headphones when the switchboard buzzed me with a personal
Night is when the city comes alive full of promise. Randy stood on the corner watching the world go by…
cataloguing each and every person and happening when a car came by and clipped a guy holding a black case, knocking him over. Randy went to help him but he was ok and disappeared into the street into a bar called the Glamour Palace. Randy followed him realizing that he had the guy's hat
It wasn't much of a story just an obituary, Mrs. Martha Orloff, age 62, scrub woman, death by natural causes,…
heart failure. But what's natural by killing yourself with a scrubbing brush. It would have only been a two-line obit if the other scrubwoman hadn't stopped him on his way out of the building
Randy didn't have to go and look for his story tonight; it came in over the Teletype. Charles Keller died…
today in the state penitentiary after serving 14 years of a twenty-year sentence for armed robbery. His wife, Molly Keller, a quiet woman worked in the offices of the Chicago Star as a humble cleaner. Keller died still denying any knowledge of the $650,000 payroll robbery in the sensation of 14 years ago
Alfred Wyman is a strange artist who wants to kill the wealthy Miss Gleason because she killed Vincent. Just when…
Randy has given up on a story for the night, he stumbles across an old man in a dispute with a taxi driver over the fare. The old man has no money so Randy pays the fare but is surprised when the gentle looking old man, Alfred Wyman, says he has to go to kill Miss Gleeson
Harlan Matthews, a stamp dealer with memories of a murder he committed long ago, attempts murder, suicide and more! An…
alienist and Randy Stone try to help. The system cue has been deleted. Randy Stone covers the night beat for the Chicago Star. Stories begin in many different ways. This one began and ended with a confession ... a confession to the crime of murder
A story of young love and old death. A girl from Kansas named Linda Johnson has been arrested for grand…
theft. She's bailed out by someone she doesn't even know. Randy Stone covers the night beat for the Chicago Star searching through the city for strange stories waiting for him in the darkness. This one began with young love and ended with old death
The Police receive information that an escaped criminal, called Alfred Garvey, is hiding out in the City. While searching for…
him at a hotel Garvey shoots an off-duty cop, and friend of Friday and Romero, John Maxwell. He was about to go on vacation but decided to visit Friday and Romero first. Soon a Police manhunt is launched to find Garvey
Philip Marlowe was a fictional private eye created by author Raymond Chandler. He was first seen as portrayed by Humphrey…
Bogart in the 1939 classic feature "The Big Sleep". The fictional detective was introduced to the radio in 1947 and, by 1949, was the most popular radio detective
Twelve-year-old Emma narrates this mystery and coming-of-age novel as she searches for the truth about the death of another young…
girl forty years earlier. The setting--a dilapidated ninety-eight-room hotel on the edge of a woods near an Appalachian lake--and several eccentric inhabitants of the area add to the atmosphere of intrigue
When Gilda lands a summer internship at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., she finds herself caught up in…
both a museum haunting and a real case of espionage. While investigating a cemetery where Abraham Lincoln's son was once buried, Gilda stumbles upon a spy's "dead drop" of classified information. As she tries to decode the cryptic message, Gilda realizes her case is not only a matter of investigating the supernatural; she's involved in an urgent matter of national security and faces her most serious challenge yet. For junior and senior high readers
Best friends Ian and Teddy meet regularly in an abandoned motel in the redwood forest, California, to take photographs. One…
day Teddy doesn't show up and Ian suspects his oppressive father has something to do with his friend's mysterious disappearance. Ian is questioned by the sheriff but he can't remember everything that happened that day. For grades 6-9
Best friends Paul, Oz, Arnie, and Crank enjoy horror movies but when a couple of movie extras, Laura and Darryl,…
working on the Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1955 try to involve them in a Communist conspiracy in real life, things get too dangerous and they decide to curtail the friendship. For grades 6-9
During a visit to the art museum, a little piglet and her grandfather investigate the disappearance of several paintings. Clues…
in the illustrations give readers a chance to solve the mystery along with the heroine
The head of Francisco Goya was stolen from his tomb in the wake of his death. No one has ever…
known what happened to it. Until now. Leon Golding has always been ignored by the art world he loves, but he's finally going to make his name as the man who found the skull of Goya. But he's asked the wrong people to help him prove he's right. Now everyone wants to own the most prized piece of art history ever to come to light . . . And they're ready to kill for it.