Utah State Prison, 1963. An inmate is transferred into the custody of a federal marshal, then brutally interrogated, summarily shot, hastily disposed of, and forgotten. A quarter-century later, and quite by chance, skeletal remains of a body are unea...
Jack Murphy, former Army cop turned private detective, had never before tackled a missing persons investigation, but for $5000 in cold cash, there was always a first time. By week's end, however, with two killers on his heels, he figured that this ca...
Private detective Jack Murphy has a hard-boiled reputation for attracting trouble. He's also a sucker for a pretty face and a great pair of legs. Enter dazzling Victoria Chandler. Her plea for help leads Murphy down a path that ends with the smell of...
June 1968. Private detective Jack Murphy knew only too well the mantra of local television news outlets: If it bleeds, it leads. It wasn't surprising, then, that a late-breaking story-of which he'd been a part-took precedence that night: a shooting d...
Wyoming Territory, 1880. Tom Keene, former lawman turned bounty hunter, has set aside his dangerous past to try his hand at ranching a quarter section of rangeland outside the sleepy frontier town of Eden. But he soon discovers that his paradise is o...
June, 1968. An inconvenient truth. That's what Jack Murphy had to offer the audience with ties to the White House. They met on a Sunday morning at the United States Court House in Los Angeles. Topic: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy...
Los Angeles 1968. What's the worst that can happen? It wasn't a question contemplated by private detective Jack Murphy, until he returned from work to find his home ablaze and his family incinerated. A tragic accident? No, murder. And not the last, a...
Utah Territory, 1870. Deputy United States Marshal Ransom Parker, fresh from a four-year stint in Indian territory, was grateful to be assigned duty in Mormon Country. He was tired of looking over his shoulder for Sioux raiding parties. Salt Lake Cit...
Los Angeles, 1968. Through the good graces of an old friend, Jack Murphy, LA's premier private investigator, has been living temporarily in Bel Air, an enclave for the rich and famous. He'd been assured that once his neighbors realized they had a cel...