William Heinrich, a ruthlessly ambitious man, closed the door quietly behind him leaving the apartment where he had spent the night with his paramour. It had gone as planned and as he walked to his rented car which was well hidden under stately oak trees, whose branches touched each other creating a dark tunnel under which he had earlier parked the vehicle. Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his left side, then a second round cracked and the bullet struck him in the back of his head and he fell forward face down onto the concrete sidewalk, blood streaming from his wounds. He was motionless. He...

A very lonely and bitter old man finds that his children and their mates have been most cases been a great disappointment to him. Their spendthrift ways and lax lifestyle have forced him to make a moral judgment He has decided that no further investments in their wild schemes will be made as they have gone too far. Recently widowed, he decides to give as much of the fortune away to deserving causes, mostly in his wife''s name. This is too much for them and collectively they decide to put a stop to it. But how? A dramatic and novel set of circumstances take place which ultimately end in the...

As they were excavating an old barn in Carville, Texas (fictitious place) they uncover the remains of a ne''er do well man who had disappeared twenty-five years earlier.The property is owned the man who is married to the former paramour of the deceased. To complicate matters, the wealthy owner without an heir and desparately wants one. Did he marry her to have her become an incubator and this possibility is raised during the earlier marriage. But what about the man entombeded in the concrete of their barn?

A beautiful and well known celebrity is found nude and dead in her suite in a Las Vegas hotel. It was declared a suicide. She had a secret that goes all the way back to the White House and may figure in her demise. A dogged acquaintance who knew of her problem and is sure that it was not a suicide. He suffers through threats to him and his family to maintain his silence. He is ably assisted by an attorney friend that leads all the way back to "The Tomb of the Unknowns" (also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier).

A man from a traditional Irish family decides to be a movie star with the help of family and friends he succeeds. He is enamored with the power that seems to accrue with stardom. Weary of this he decides to take advantage of his celebrity and make a career change. Thinking that his starpower status will service him well in politics. It does and he gets elected. An act which claims the life of an assistant clouds his future. He avoids accepting responsibility and pays a price. Will it destroy him politically?

"Have you seen my wife Anne?" was the melancholy question Doctor Mark Burke would ask as he walked about town looking for his now deceased wife. The shock of her death had been too much for him to understand and he just assumed that she was lost and needed him to help her home. His persistence intrigued a persom who was taking a course in Creative Writing and decided to make their story hers. As she goes throuh the lives of the Doctor and his wife Anne she found the fine attributes of a long and faithfull marriage. It's a love story, the full body of which come to a poignant end. A pleasant...

A young boy is shuffled around during his boyhood from foster homes and finally to a relative in New Orleans. As a teenager he runs away from this stabilizing environment, knocking about until he winds up in Cincinnati, Ohio. Here, he is given an entry level job with a plumbing wholesale firm and he excels beyond anyone expectations, and pleasing his superiors. The owner has a daughter who becomes enamoured with the young man and lures him into a marriage and there followed three little ones. He decides that it is not the life a restless wanderer, he feigns suicide and goes a wild persuit of...