FATAL RECALL When her husband begins acting strangely, the wife of a famous consumer advocate hires San Francisco P.I. John Marshall Tanner to find out why. Tanner is convinced the case is a simple matter of blackmail. Certainly a man like Roland ...
THE LADY VANISHES It begins with a mob-orchestrated hit-and-run "accident". Now a crusading D.A. hires San Francisco P.I. John Marshall Tanner to find the only reliable witness to the crime. A gorgeous ex-model named Teresa Blair has disappeared a...
Back on his family farm, John Marshall Tanner investigates a murder that hits very close to home It’s been thirty years since John Marshall Tanner, private eye, returned to Chaldea, and he hasn’t missed the farm -- three hundred acres of thin top...
Berkeley, California. Birthplace of the free-speech movement. Site of campus sit-ins. Home to flower children. And now, two decades later, a city of murder. Psychologist Dianne Renzel has been killed-not just murdered, but mutilated in her own bed...
A slightly sleazy divorce lawyer discovers something strange about himself: a conscience There are seven women in the courtroom, and D. T. Jones loves them all. They are women who married young, have been mistreated, and have no prospects, no h...
BAD BLOOD They were barroom pals who talked about politics, philosophy, everything but their private lives ... until the night Tom Crandall asked detective John Marshall Tanner for help. It seems that Tom's sultry wife, Clarissa, was having an aff...
The past is never truly buried, or even dead. That's what John Marshall Tanner discovers at his twenty-fifth college reunion when he meets an old friend whose past has come back to haunt him with a vengeance. In the summer of '66. Seth Hartman had go...
SOMETIMES THERE'S NOTHING HARDER TO CONCEIVE THAN THE TRUTH Leading lives of wealth, power, and privilege, Millicent and Stuart Colbert have it all...except a child. Considering Greta Hammond as a surrogate mother, they hire detective John Marshal...
IN A WORLD OF VIRTUAL REALITY, THE ULTIMATE EROTIC THRILL MAY BE MURDER Peggy Nettleton, detective John Marshall Tanner's former lover, has come back into his life, reopening old wounds. She's supposed to marry Ted Evans, a wealthy Seattle investm...
When his friend, police lieutenant Charlie Sleet, breaks into sudden acts of violence, San Francisco PI John Marshall must unearth the repressed memories at the heart Charlie’s corruption and vigilantism to put an end to the killing....
While recovering from a gunshot wound, John Marshall Tanner meets a woman worth fighting for John Marshall Tanner left most of his blood in a vacant lot on Twentieth Street, along with the body of his closest friend. Tanner and Charley Sleet shot eac...