In The Omega Crystal, Geoff Lance was the top-rated television anchor in Sacramento, but he was getting weary of the struggle with his bosses over their dumbing down of the news. His life took a sudden turn when he met an aging French physicist who told him he had a solution to the energy crisis. But then the man died under mysterious circumstances. At his funeral, Geoff met his daughter, Ariane Chevasse, a brilliant woman working in international intelligence. The two collaborated to expose a conspiracy by the oil importers. In New Moves, Geoff and Ariane had moved to the Monterey Peninsula,...

This seventh volume in the series of Francie LeVillard Mysteries features stories of pet-napping, political corruption, a manipulated grand jury, and "A flame in moth country." These latest case histories further reveal the scope of the talents of the world's finest consulting detective since Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most important fictional characters in all of literature, the world around. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a giant of thought whose intellectual range extended well beyond his role as a detective. As a member for thirty years of the Diogenes Club of Carmel-by-the-Sea, a Sherlockian society, I have contributed a number of papers to our bi-monthly black tie dinner meetings. (I have also created the brilliant new consulting detective, Francie LeVillard, and have published seven volumes of her cases.) But back to the "Musings on Sherlock Holmes." Included in these...

Anyone who has worked in radio will recognize the people in this story. Radio is a strange animal in that it attracts people who are weird but figure that they can hide out behind their voices. Tony Seton has spent a lot of time in radio, network and local, live and taped, but aside from raising his eyebrows at what interviewees were saying or flipping off a technical glitch, he had nothing to hide. "No Soap, Radio" looks behind the curtain of radio to give the reader unfamiliar with truth about this important medium, a sense of what really happens at some radio stations.

Devon Ross was a television news reporter at the top-rated station in the number one market. He was serious about journalism, and he loved his work. Too much so for wife Elaine, who had left him two cities earlier. Her departure had raised questions for the reporter, which he'd not been able to answer with the women who had subsequently passed through his life. Which was why he focused on his work. Being the newest reporter on staff meant he had the early shift, and one frigid winter morning he was sent out to the furthest reaches of LaGuardia Airport where the police were pulling in a...

I was lying on my bed when suddenly the doorbell rang. Maybe it's the FedEx guy, I wishfully thought, bringing a positive reply to one of the myriad resumes I'd sent out. How was it possible that all those skills and that brilliance could go to waste. Brilliant? Uh-huh. I was half-way down the staircase when I realized that there is doorbell in the house. But that didn't stop me from looking to see who had rung it. This is a personal story, and may be of little interest to any but my immediate family, and, of course, my biographer.