In the course of a "marriage" swindle, four vicious con-men use a clever ploy by hiring the detectives to prove the integrity and financial security of their next victim. They say that they want to be certain of the quality of the prospective bride's lineage. When the investigation is revealed, the victims feel reassured about the integrity and financial security of the perpetrators. The victim is then cruelly tricked and blackmailed and it is up to the detectives to expose the scheme and prevent further harm from coming to its most innocent victim.
In the course of a "marriage" swindle, four vicious con-men use a clever ploy by hiring the detectives to prove the integrity and financial security o...
A woman borrows her housekeeper's car and drives off a cliff. She had claimed that her daughter had just called, saying that she was injured at the base of the cliff and needed help. But the daughter insisted she knew nothing of such a call.. How could a mother have failed to recognize her own child's voice? What made her lose control of the car? And why did the daughter hire the detectives to prove that the accident was actually murder?
A woman borrows her housekeeper's car and drives off a cliff. She had claimed that her daughter had just called, saying that she was injured at the ba...
An antique porcelain jar that once held party favors for an Emperor's guests is now filled with heroin and shipped across the Pacific. An old, retired drug-sniffing dog and its owner call attention to the crime. To distance themselves from the shipment, the guilty try to destroy the reputations of the dog and its owner. Justice and truth will come with a high price as the detectives quickly learn.
An antique porcelain jar that once held party favors for an Emperor's guests is now filled with heroin and shipped across the Pacific. An old, ret...
Three private investigators, all with Zen Buddhist backgrounds, are hired to determine whether or not the client's mother is dead, as she is alleged to be. If she is dead, he wants to know how she died. If she is not dead but is being detained somewhere, they must locate her. Peculiar Aztec artworks have been found among her possessions; and in following the trail left by these pieces, the detectives encounter ancient beliefs and practices for which no one in the modern world can be prepared.
Three private investigators, all with Zen Buddhist backgrounds, are hired to determine whether or not the client's mother is dead, as she is alleged t...
Often, what seems to be beautiful and harmless is as deadly as the Amazon's sapphire colored frog. Beryl Tilson and Sensei Percy Wong search a South American jungle for a rich American woman who has been the victim of a prison pen-pal confidence racket. It is unthinkable that she is being held in a brothel that caters to the diseased, yet that is where their search takes them.
Often, what seems to be beautiful and harmless is as deadly as the Amazon's sapphire colored frog. Beryl Tilson and Sensei Percy Wong search a South A...
Clues that solve a crime can be as evanescent as virga: rain that falls in the desert which the desert's rising heat evaporates before the rain has a chance to reach the ground. Using Zen's pragmatic approach to discover the complexity of a crime that had been regarded as 'cut and dry, ' Beryl Tilson and Sensei Percy Wong of Wagner & Tilson, Private Investigators, apply their skill and intuition to free a man who has been wrongly accused of murder. The biggest clue to solving this mystery is in the false evidence that was submitted at trial. A gun which was alleged to have lain in the Sonora...
Clues that solve a crime can be as evanescent as virga: rain that falls in the desert which the desert's rising heat evaporates before the rain has a ...
Can faith be a weapon that is used against the believer? Someone is trying to kill the heiress of an estate or use her faith to have her declared unfit to manage her affairs. The detectives must discover who is trying to harm her. Are the threats against her coming from outside the house or from someone who is living in stealth within its walls? Are those who stand closest to a target the ones who are most likely to strike it?
Can faith be a weapon that is used against the believer? Someone is trying to kill the heiress of an estate or use her faith to have her declared unfi...
What happens when we finally find the courage to confront an old tormentor but we discover, too late, that we lack the physical force to overcome him? It isn't always brains and heart that prevail. The detectives must overcome a client's desire for revenge to prevent her from being victimized a second time.
What happens when we finally find the courage to confront an old tormentor but we discover, too late, that we lack the physical force to overcome him?...
Self-destruction is not always a motive for suicide. Spite and revenge can set in motion actions that appear to be murder. The detectives must prove that a man has been unjustly convicted of murder. In doing this, they discover that he has committed even more horrible crimes.
Self-destruction is not always a motive for suicide. Spite and revenge can set in motion actions that appear to be murder. The detectives must prove t...