Filled with his trademark humor and warmth, Jon Hassler's _The Staggerford Murders_ and _The Life and Death of Nancy Clancy's Nephew_ offer a welcome return to the town that has captivated readers for years. In _The Staggerford Murders_ , residents of the Ransford Hotel "solve" the nine- year-old murder of esteemed Staggerford citizen Neddy Nichols and the disappearance of his widow, Blanche. Hassler's wry humor is in full force as this wonderful tale unfolds. In the more poignant and bittersweet _The Life and Death of Nancy Clancy's Nephew_ , elderly W.D. Nestor finds his loneliness dispelled by his friendship with a young Staggerford boy, but it is a sudden visit to his one hundred-year-old Aunt Nancy that provides the peace he has always been looking for.

James Yeats Biddle was upset when two Japnese laborers were hurled from a speeding car corssing the San Francisco Bay Bridge headed for the San Francisco Exposition on Treasure Island but he was even more irked when someone killed his beloved olive trees. With the help of attractive reporter Kay Ritchie and Inspector ANgus McDuff, Prof. Biddle turns detective. First published in 1940.

A woman's harrowing fall down the side of a weedy cliff has left her struggling for every breath. A discarded manuscript is found buried under rotting food in a garbage dump. Falsified identities and faces half-hidden in the shadows of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement threaten to be unmasked. Private Investigators Justin Escobar and Dora Saldana struggle through this web of bizarre clues in two cases they are working to solve. When the tangled threads lead them to a violent showdown involving F.B.I. misdeeds thirty years in the past, these two intrepid agents of Brown Angel Investigations find themselves in a deadly snare. Weaving the student movements at Berkeley, a serial rapist within the government's ranks, a militant Chicano brown power group in Denver, and even the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, Corpi has once again penned an intriguing thriller that revisits one of the most disturbing chapters for the …