When a group of bandits derails a train and murders an engineer in cold blood, it’s not the loot they’re after. It’s the coffins.

From the clues left behind, corpses weren’t the only things in the caskets. And a sniper’s bullet silences the only witness.

Now, Carter may be the only player in this twisted script who can solve this Wild West mystery. But will he get to the truth in time, or end up in a pine box himself?

Detectives Carter and Jackson are tasked with bringing outlaw Angus Morton and his gang to justice.

But when the lawmen arrive at Morton’s last known location, the town is on edge. The bandits have the citizens terrified. Even stranger are the rumors of a fire-breathing creature capable of utter destruction.

As a former actor, Carter knows a tall tale when he hears ones, but this one just might be real.

What Carter and Jackson foil an armed attack at a museum, they soon discover the entire robbery was an elaborate distraction. In the melee, a master thief with a unique calling card swipes a prized artifact: a macuahuitl, an Aztec sword, dating back to the Spanish conquest of the New World.

But when Carter and Jackson are assigned to track down and recover the sword, those men who know about the macuahuitl start dying, one by one. If Carter and Jackson aren’t careful, they’ll be next.

When the Sundown Express is seized by a ruthless gang, the desperadoes run the train back and forth on the same stretch of open ground. They deliver their demands with a corpse.

US Marshal Cash Laramie knows he can beat these guys, but how can he get on the Express? What he doesn’t know is disguised railroad detective Calvin Carter is on board the Express, and the former actor reckons the train’s speed thwarts any chance for a boarding party to save the day, so the former actor makes sure he’s in the marauders’ spotlight, even if it means his final curtain call.

When bullets burst through a door, unarmed gumshoe Benjamin Wade knows his case just got a hell of a lot more difficult.

The smoke clears, the shooter escapes, and Wade finds a corpse. It’s the man he was hired to find. His client will not be happy.

A man jumps in front of a moving car and dies.

Why? That’s the question Ace reporter Gordon Gardner asks. The police have already closed the case. His editor wants the piece yesterday. His rival reporter can’t wait for Gordon to fail. Even his new partner, the beautiful Lucy Barnes, thinks Gordon is barking up the wrong tree.

The strangest thing: the lunatic claimed the vehicle was a ghost.

In May 1940, Army Sergeant Lillian Saxton receives a cryptic message from an old flame who now lives in Germany: meet in Belgium and he’ll not only give her the key to the Nazi codebooks but also information about the man who murdered her brother.

Lillian conducts all her missions with panache and confidence, even when bullets start to fly and enemy agents zero in to kill her. She’s more uncertain of how she’ll react when she sees the man who broke her heart or how she’ll get out of Belgium when the Nazis launch their invasion.

Mere days after police chased a hoodlum across the farm, a local farmer receives a court notice : his chickens are scheduled for slaughter. The farmer hires private eye Ben Wade who is so bad off he can’t refuse any case.

Curiously, the police have no record of the incident. The nervous health inspector is suddenly evasive. And the inspector’s beautiful secretary thinks she’s being followed and seeks Wade’s help.

When the farmer asked for his help, Wade laughed. Now, the case just might kill him.

As a U.S. Senator, Harry Truman led a congressional committee dedicated to ferreting out corruption during World War II with a simple credo: help the country win the war and bring our soldiers home.

In the spring of 1944, Truman receives a series of ominous letters from a lawyer out
in Hanford, Washington. His client, a farmer who lost his land when the government confiscated it for a secret project, has been silenced and drafted into the Army.

Truman personally leads this investigation, bringing along former policeman Carl Hancock. Soon after they start looking into things, Truman and Hancock witness a pair of brutally murdered corpses, a town clouded in secrecy, and more than one person who’d prefer to be done with the pesky senator.

But the investigators are tenacious, and in no time, Truman and Hancock not only find themselves embroiled in the top-secret world of the Manhattan Project but also must confront the worst act of treason in American history since Benedict Arnold.

Lauren Cross does not want to go home for Christmas.

On the cusp of thirty, she’s the youngest of four children, and the only one who doesn’t work in the family business. When she surrenders to her mother’s badgering and agrees to attend the big Christmas party at the estate, Lauren brings her new boyfriend for moral support, and an easy excuse for spending just one night.

But when someone turns up dead, Lauren finds herself driven to figure out what happened. It shouldn’t matter that the deputy assigned the case was her high school boyfriend. Right?

With perpetual scorn heaped on her by her siblings and mother, the familiar sights and memories of her hometown, and the nearness of her ex who looks really good in a uniform, Lauren must come to terms with the passage of time and wonders if all her life decisions were the right ones.