Film producer Al Greenberg has been murdered-the first in a series of violent deaths perpetrated by a killer calling herself "Samantha." Eleven years earlier, a young, starry-eyed actress with the same name had been raped by half a dozen men on a Hol...
Masao Masuto, a Nisei detective on the Beverly Hills police force, investigates a ransacked house from which nothing is missing and the murder of a noted stamp dealer, and searches for an 1847 postage stamp from Mauritius. MASAO MASUTO BREEDS ROSE...
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A murder investigation at a high-priced hotel reveals a deadly plot reaching the highest seats of power
They call the pool at the Beverly Glen Hotel ""the naked hooker."" To the frustration of the Beverly Hills police department, the women...
A dog's murder leads detective Masuto to a most unusual poisoning case In Beverly Hills, murder has suddenly gone out of style. For five weeks, the head of the city's tiny homicide squad, Zen detective Masao Masuto, has worked only robbery investi...
A rare California deluge unearths a hidden body - and a decades-old crime
Rain has spoiled Masao Masuto''s vacation. For six days the storm has trapped the Zen Buddhist detective and his family inside their Los Angeles cottage. By the morni...
Masao Masuto is a Nisei detective on the Beverly Hills police force- a cultured stranger in an even stranger land of traffic-clogged freeways, artery-clogging fast food... and brutal murders. In The Case of the Sliding Pool, the collapse of a swimmin...
Detective Masuto reopens an investigation into a murderous film star—with deadly consequences…
On the day that Eve Mackenzie murders her husband, Masao Masuto is on a plane to Japan. For years he and his wife, both American-born...