Mysteries In History

A Classic Saga of Virtue and EvilSanta Barbara, California - September, 1928It is generally thought by those who know such things that Estelle Abernathy is one of the richest women in the United...

In PAYBACK, Johnny Spicer's seventh caper, H. P. Oliver's cynical, wisecracking detective is up to his ears in World War II. As a counter espionage agent with the Army Military Intelligence Division,...

In Johnny Spicer's fourth novel-length caper, H. P. Oliver's irreverent Hollywood private eye goes to war. Days before the US enters WWII, Spicer is called back to active duty with his old outfit,...

San Francisco radio news reporter Parker Atkins is back in Los Angeles where, in a previous and less sober life, he was an LAPD detective. Now in L A to cover a story on off-shore gambling ships,...

It all started on a hot and unusually muggy day in L.A. That's when Miss Frump knocked on the door to Johnny Spicer's office in the First National Bank building at Hollywood and Highland. She was...