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A drifter detective finds himself embroiled in a turf war between appliance salesmen.

While kids at the drug store's comic book spinner thumb through the latest issue of Sergeant Light Beam, a comic book editor and his letterer fight it out to the finish.

The code at an exclusive club full of Mikes is violated leading to murder.

An attorney for more than one US president looks back at a life-and-death incident from childhood that showed him more about himself than he wished to see.

On the lam from a collapsed Ponzi scheme in San Francisco, a shady real estate developer flees to a medieval village in Provence. As the Mistral winds howl, there he runs across a tenant he evicted, an old North Beach hippie hell-bent on revenge.

Philip Prince, a former med tech, is blackmailed by the local sheriff into finding how a meth addict met his death. Nothing is what it seems: Phillip, the sheriff, the D.A., and officials from a drug research company all have something to hide.