Exposed #7

When an actress is found stabbed to death in her hotel room the night before opening, Inspector Caulkins must sift through three suspects, each with powerful motives—a jilted suitor, a professional rival, and a producer whose ambitions she manipulated. The trail of clues backstage and at the crime scene will reveal who turned jealousy and unrequited love into murder.

When Joe Gates, an armed watchman, is found dead in his locked cottage with a gun at his side, all evidence points to a tragic accident—until Officers Ernest Clare and James Dayton spot a crucial detail that unravels Herman Denzer's carefully planned revenge. Denzer has waited 18 years to settle an old score from a mountain crash, and he's constructed an ingenious locked-room setup to make the murder look like a cleaning mishap. But in "The Fatal Reflex," one small slip threatens to expose the perfect crime.

When the notorious crime boss Tony "Tiger" Drexel is found dead, whispers of his hidden millions spread fast—and everyone from street hustlers to rival gangsters wants a piece of it. A young diver gets caught between multiple crews searching for Drexel's fortune, all converging on a dangerous secret hidden beneath the waves off the coast. In this 1949 crime tale, greed pulls everyone deeper into darker waters.

Nat Dimmock, a contractor plagued by self-doubt, becomes obsessed with proving himself superior to his rival Fenwood—first at bowling, then in business. When honest competition fails him, Dimmock turns to bribes and sabotage, orchestrating accidents on competitors' job sites to drive them out of business and seize their contracts. As his schemes grow bolder and more expensive, Dimmock finds himself caught in an escalating cycle of corruption and violence that threatens to consume him.

George Darley, a charming Southern socialite hiding a ruthless racketeer operation, plots to frame his mortal enemy—editor Horton Colbert, who's been systematically destroying his gambling empire—by staging a shooting and planting Colbert's own gun as evidence. But in his confidence that the frame-up is airtight, Darley overlooks a critical detail that unravels his scheme and turns the tables on him completely.

Private eye Malcolm Starr checks into a murder case at the mansion of the late explorer Jonathan Green, only to find the household convinced they're being haunted by his ghost—complete with phantom voices and spectral appearances. As Starr investigates, he must separate the supernatural claims from the cold facts of a baffling murder, using his detective's eye to uncover what's really lurking in the shadows of the "Guilty Ghost."