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Matt's investigation of vandalism of life-sized dolls belonging to the strange but well-meaning aunt with whom he and his sister live takes him to the art world of Los Angeles.

Cousins Kate and Mike visit Kate's father, a baseball scout for the Dodgers, in Los Angeles just as a series of suspicious events lead him to think that someone is trying to steal his scouting reports.

Philip Marlowe, a private detective in Los Angeles in the 1930s, takes a case involving a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder.

Nineteen-year-old samurai girl Heaven Kogo decides to take chances and explore Los Angeles, even though she knows danger could be lurking anywhere.

New York teenager P. C. Hawke and his buddy Mackenzie suspect insurance fraud when the mother of a recently departed classmate suddenly starts living a very extravagant lifestyle.

Los Angeles police officer Jack McGarvey, badly wounded in a shoot-out, decides to move his family to a Montana ranch that has been willed to him by the father of his former partner, only to have his son Toby become the target of the Givers, creatures from another dimension who want control of the child for their own evil purposes.

LAPD detective Harry Bosch, up to his ears in an investigation of a movie director charged with murdering an actress, is stunned and angry to discover he is suspected by former FBI agent of killing a small-time crook; and it is not long before the two men discover their cases share a frightening link.

Forced into early retirement, former FBI investigator for Los Angeles Terrell McCaleb spends his time restoring his fishing boat.

Lucy Lowell, a patient of psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware, has been having a recurring nightmare ever since she was a juror at the trial of a serial killer.

A rare killer virus from the jungles of Africa has taken hold in a small California town.

While on vacation in L.A., the Hardy boys land a job as bodyguards for rock star Brian Beat who is being assaulted by a deadly stalker.

Drew Danner awakens in an L.A. hospital with no memory of how he got there, and no idea why the police found him over his ex-fiancee's dead body, and sets out to prove his innocence and learn how she really died.

Presents critical analyses of eight novels by Walter Mosley, creator of the African-American detective Easy Rawlins, each with a plot synopsis, character portraits, thematic discussions, and historical contexts, and includes a biography of the author.

Detective Philip Marlowe deals with the Los Angeles gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women.

Marlowe is constantly on the move with a case involving a war-scarred drunk and his nymphomaniac wife.