When a woman is found murdered in her North Beach apartment, San Francisco PI Casey McKie takes on the case as a favor to her friend Dee Jefferson. The singer and club owner wants Casey to prove the man accused of the crime, jazz drummer Greg Sanderson, is innocent. Casey discovers the crime scene is free of forensic evidence. She figures it's the work of an experienced killer, and more murders with the same MO prove her hunch correct. Since all the victims were young jazz singers, Casey concludes the killer is someone from the jazz community. Is it Tony, the womanizing owner of a club where...

AND ALL THAT MADNESS a Casey McKie mystery by Joan Merrill When the New York Jazz Society acquires a fifty-year old letter from Georgia Valentine, questions arise over the legendary vocalist's death. Did she give herself a fatal dose of heroin, as the original investigators ruled, or did someone kill her? And if it was murder, what was the motive? Casey moves her operation from San Francisco to New York to investigate the cold case, questioning Georgia's musician friends, her widower, a drug dealer, a Broadway actress, a mafia boss and the authorities who declared the death a suicide. This...

Casey's relaxing Caribbean jazz cruise is interrupted when "The Countess" goes missing and the captain asks her to investigate, quietly. All Casey wanted was to enjoy the music, sit on the deck reading novels and possibly pursue her attraction to Aaron, an intriguing jazz magazine editor. But she can't resist a mystery, especially when homicide might be involved. Ship authorities believe the countess overstayed at an island stop, but Casey suspects somethinore sinister. Images of the woman flailing in the night sea haunt Casey as she uncovers several passengers with motives for murder. Unsure...