The lives of Ben Pierce, President of the Philadelphia Better Business Bureau, and Kate Flaherty, Philadelphia homicide detective, become intertwined after the murder of Bill Rose, Philadelphia's most famous public prosecutor. Rose, for years the top...
Kate and Ben, introduced in The Better Business Bureau Murders, never managed to consummate their love before circumstances split them. Now, three years later, they are re-united in Romania, home of Vlad Dracul the Impaler, better known as Dracula.Be...
Grace Akers is hung from a beam over the altar of the Harford Independent Bible Church, and shortly thereafter, on the first day of deer season, her husband is shot dead on the property of the Smiley family. Kate and Ben Pierce, the new owners of a c...
The Susquehanna River Basin Commission decides to study the feasibility of building a dam on the North Branch of the Susquehanna River near Hallstead. Lizbeth Scott, Chief Geologist who is sent to manage the studies, soon finds herself at the center ...
What appears to be an unfortunate chainsaw accident to a reclusive neighbor at Ben and Kate's vacation home in Susquehanna County pulls Ben and Sergeant Brad Jackson into a whirlpool of activities involving an unscrupulous logger, a young Muslim scie...
Chip Brown, a retired diplomat, is living in the family manse in Montrose, Pennsylvania when he receives a note threatening death by fire unless he returns "the Yasna," a liturgical work written and used by the followers of Zoroaster long before the ...
How could birding, that most peaceful of avocations, lead to two grisly murders in Nepal and an un-investigated death in Panama?Kate and Ben, recent converts to the joys of birding, become enthusiastic members of the Susquehanna County Birders Group ...
Mr. K. and the Super is the emotionally moving, sometimes hilarious recollections of a newly married ex-GI, recently enrolled at Columbia, of his service as "super" of two New York City apartment buildings in the early 1950's. The two buildings were ...