Talent and money, artists and patrons, agents and impresarios, music and drama - it was all coming together in the glittering gala opening of the Golden Gate Opera house. Or it was until rehearsals became tryouts for murder. Carver Bascombe was a pri...
ID: Carver Bascombe. Description: Black. Lean. Vietnam Vet. Cooly professional. Case: One murdered writer in a California coast town. Four very suspect fellow authors. An undetermined number of faceless killers. And one highly menacing sea lion. Requ...
Private detective Carver Bascombe is hired by San Francisco ballet star Joel Burck, who is convinced someone is out to kill him, and stumbles into a bizarre web of jealousy, international intrigue, and murder...
When three paintings are stolen from her private collection, Agnes Trevillion hires detective Carver Bascombe to investigate her art curator, Jordan Kooby, but the case takes a lethal turn when Kooby turns up dead...
The show must go on... Byron Kean's new play is sure to become a modern classic, just the thing that will save his family's financially troubled theater company - if it is ever performed. When money disappears from the theater's account, Kean hire...
IF WORDS COULD KILL... Police lieutenant Rafael De Anza's wife has been charged with murdering a lady poet. Both women belonged to the same poetry group and had been seen fighting in a restaurant-a fight that ended with Laura De Anza threatening t...