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Terry Rader is cleaning his rental port-o-lets in MacArthur Park when he finds a young woman, her blue hospital scrubs covered with thick, dried blood. Her name is Denise White. She is a nurse practitioner, employed by a USC health clinic in the mid-Wilshire district. She is the cousin of Lieutenant Frank White of the LAPD and the favorite niece of Charles White, the first black soldier to receive the Medal of Honor in Korea and still-in his l...

Following the Jack Grant and Tom Deaton series, No Exit features a new series protagonist: FBI Special Agent Gwen Harrison. Introduced in Poison Touch, Gwen is a native American, descended from distinguished ancestors, including a warrior who fought beside Enchanted Horse (Gwen's correction of 'Crazy' Horse). She is an amateur tracker whose avocation becomes a dangerous obsession. After a bloody altercation in a San Francisco alley she decides...

Dr. Leonard Barnes, a prominent Irvine surgeon, is the part-time medical examiner for the Laguna Beach PD. A gentle but formal man, his naked, comatose body is found beside the freeway near San Juan Capistrano. His coma has been brought on by alcohol poisoning, Len Barnes is a teetotaler. Len's friend and new love, Dr. Sally Cornell, is a UCSD forensic anthropologist. She knows that Len has been poisoned but neither she nor Lieutenant Tom De...

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We are in the California desert above Lake Elsinore, the remains of Terry Randall and his wife Susan are lying in the dust and grit. Susan's right hand is missing. The initial verdict is that Terry killed Susan and then himself, using the shotgun which rests at his feet. The putative cause is post-traumatic stress disorder. Terry has recently returned from Iraq. The branch bank of AmeriCal Savings which he previously managed has been closed an...

The third Tom Deaton novel is dark and pulpy, with a full-tilt plot, the complete ensemble of previous series characters and a memorable antagonist who is the stuff of nightmares. Earlon "Snack" Harris earned his nickname when a Rotty named T-Bone interrupted Harris' attack on his owner by sampling his fingers, toes, and testicles. Newly-released from a ten-year sentence for armed robbery and assault, Harris is ready to begin a new life with t...

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An engaging, hard-boiled mystery. The most prominent painter in southern California is found hanging in his Laguna Canyon studio. The Laguna Beach police initially think suicide, his sister says murder and works with Detective Tom Deaton to find her brother's killer. Together they follow a trail of death that takes them from southern California to France, England, and, finally, to a darkened cave that holds unspeakable secrets. The most ambit...

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Originally compiled and published in 1979, this volume contains six plays of Arthur Murphy: The Apprentice, The Upholsterer, The Old Maid, The Citizen, No One's Enemy but His Own, Three Weeks After Marriage.

Originally compiled and published in 1979, this volume contains six plays of Arthur Murphy: The Apprentice, The Upholsterer, The Old Maid, The Citizen, No One's Enemy but His Own, Three Weeks After Marriage.

The twenty million students now pursuing higher education in America are paying more than history, culture and the consumer price index can possibly justify, while the product they are purchasing is one that has become systematically debased. General education has been depreciated, core curricula eroded, expectations (at all levels) reduced. Slightly above half of the currently-enrolled students are graduating and only half of those are findin...

Richard B. Schwartz explores the work of his favourite writers, building on a reading of almost 700 novels from the 1980s and 1990s. By looking at reoccuring themes in these mysteries, Schwartz offers readers new ways to approach the works in relation to contemporary cultural concerns.

This book examines developmental theory in light of heroic narrative and argues that such theory should be adjusted to accommodate the experience of those who are, in many ways, our principal role models, examining figures such as Jane Austen, T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and George S. Patton, Jr.

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