When Mortimer Jones received a mysteries package from Daisy Tucker a woman he hardly knew with the instructions to "keep this safe until I call for it and don't let anyone else have it," he put it to one side and forgot about it. That was two years ago and now Jones has decided to try to return the package to its owner but she seems to have disappeared. Jones' actions will trigger a series of unexpected events that will end in violence and death. Someone very definitely doesn't want Jones to discover "The Whereabouts of Daisy Tucker."

For the first time in his life middle-aged Mortimer Jones has a girlfriend; at least he thinks he does and he's not quite sure how it happened. The trouble is that Jones new girlfriend Susan is running away from a violent husband who has now discovered where she is. When he returns there will be violence and murder but not quite in the way everyone expects.

Mortimer Jones has lived with his maiden aunt ever since his mother died thirty years ago. Now a man has turned up and claims to be the father that Jones never knew. But when Jones would-be father is murdered he sets out to discover if this man really was his father, why he has returned now and who killed him. This will turned out to be a dangerous thing to do but then Jones is A Hard Man To Kill.

Marty South has a nice apartment and a steady well paid job. He had never had any ambition. He had always avoided any kind of responsibility. But now he thinks someone is trying to kill him and neither his girlfriend nor the police believe him. Then South finds a dead body in his apartment and an assassin with a shotgun waiting for him outside. He escapes with the help of a woman calling herself Angel who says she has been sent to take him somewhere safe. Angel takes South to meet Doctor Harrington who has been paid to keep South safe by a mystery benefactor. But the police and the assassin...