CASTRATO

Collins’s one-armed PI Dan Fortune is up against the FBI, the CIA, and a ruthless family in this tautly crafted mystery. Brooding ex-teacher Frank Owen is searching for his immature kid brother, Billy, a frustrated John Wayne type involved with gun running in Central America.

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CHASING EIGHTS

It’s at a late afternoon poker game in a Victorian house that Fortune first finds Jack Price. He discovers something else on the grounds behind the mansion: the body of Santos Torena, another partner in Brower’s real estate scheme. Price meanwhile wanders off, and Fortune spends the rest of the night and the book (which spans a 24-hour period) trying to catch up with him.

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FORTUNE'S WORLD

“Thought provoking and powerful... Far more than the literary popcorn of much mystery writing, these accomplished stories will stick with you in surprising and interesting ways.”

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FREAK

A single word, written nine times on a memo pad — Freak, FREAK, freak — underlined, boxed, shadowed, filled in, was the only clue left in the house Ian Campbell had given to his son Alan and his new wife. The young couple had vanished, apparently without cause, a month previous to Campbell’s hiring a detective to find them.

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MINNESOTA STRIP

This is a case that one-armed private eye Dan Fortune really doesn’t want to bother with. An Amerasian girl has been killed on New York City’s notorious “Minnesota Strip” where all the hookers and druggies go, and Jerry Carter thinks his youngest son Roy is involved... Fortune thinks the murder and disappearance are routine police matters, but business is slow, so he takes the case.

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RED ROSA

Dan Fortune faces a tough question: Who would want to kill 88-year-old Rosa Gruenfeld, a lifelong firebrand Communist living in a seedy New York S.R.O. hotel, still spouting doctrine and passing out pamphlets?

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