The so-called "Mob" ran the town and owned all the cops, politicians, attorneys, courts, and judges. The cops murdered more guys than the mob did and scattered their dead bodies all over the vast parched desert.

The cops and Mob knocked the guys off. The overwhelmingly corrupt courts, judges, and D.A.'s office, and alleged prosecutors let them get away with it, and the despicable news media covered it all up--.

The so-called "Mob" ran the town and owned all the cops, politicians, attorneys, courts, and judges. The cops murdered more guys than the mob did and scattered their dead bodies all over the vast parched desert.

The cops and Mob knocked the guys off. The overwhelmingly corrupt courts, judges, and D.A.'s office, and alleged prosecutors let them get away with it, and the despicable news media covered it all up--.

Random Shot is another Hannable Hathaway Hoe murder mystery.

A young woman, Vera Hall, is killed by a random shot that blasts through a window of the Bartell Building on the 12th floor, hits a plaque on a wall then ricochets into Vara Hall's body, killing her almost instantly. The death of Vera Hall is considered a death by an accidental random shot fired by someone unknown.

The mysterious Mr. Frost who Hannable first met in Murder in the Key of E Flat, calls again and wants Hannable to investigate Vera Hall's death too, and with another bet that Hannable will fail again to find out who the mysterious Mr. Frost is. Hannable takes the job and the bet.

Random Shot is one of the most diabolical, malevolent, and fiendish murder plots Hannable Hathaway Hoe has worked on up to this time. How can a young woman be deliberately murdered in a room on the 12th floor of a building that is higher than the other buildings in the immediate area, which would cause the slug from a rife to shoot almost straight up if shot from the ground, missing the plaque entirely, and, if shot though a window from a nearby building the angle was wrong for a ricocheting bullet from there also, and, if shot from a shorter building's roof that angle would also be wrong. How then can Vera Hall's death be murder? Everybody says it's impossible, but Mr. Frost!

Mr. Frost sends an older man, Ethelbert Spoon, to help Hannable. What can Spoon do to help? A great deal as it turns out. Spoon turns out to be somewhat of a magician!

Turlock Holmes, a private crime investigator, and Hannable Hathaway Hoe, a private eye, collaborate on another murder case, The Plum Jelly Murder Case. A man dies while eating lunch with a group of men friends in a local restaurant. The men all work for the dead man who was a Real Estate broker. His wife goes to see Hannable Hoe in his office where she insists that her husband was murdered even though there is no evidence of murder. She offers a one hundred fifty thousand dollar reward, to any one who can find her husband's murderer. Turlock Holmes is in Hannable's office at this time. He and Hannable decide to take the case. They want the hundred and fifty grand. They have no clues, or suspects, or evidence, just the murdered man's wife's feeling that her husband was murdered by one of his friends, but how can a man murder another man in broad daylight sitting around a table in a restaurant with friends? Holmes says he can solve the case in a week, stunning Hannable. Can they do it with no suspects, no evidence, no clues?

Not Without Protest takes place in the fictional Saint Vincent’s Nursing Home. The nursing home is located in the picturesque town of Rush, New York in the year 2026 A.D. However, this is not your ordinary nursing home. Strange things occur in the mysterious South Wing and when the main character, Anthony Marcella, becomes involved, a sixties-style radical movement ignites as a group of seventy-year-old baby boomers mobilizes to overthrow the administration.

What is happening in the South Wing? Saint Vincent’s wealthy owner, Morgan Douglas along with the evil Dr. Carl Bortz, have masterminded a high-tech scheme, involving mind mapping and stealing using alien technologies. Morgan steals information from the minds of selected patients, digitizes the associated sounds and images, and then stores them on compact discs before giving them to the aliens. The aliens are infiltrating every level of society by bribing greedy humans to carry out their work. They use the information from the CDs to gain special knowledge about influential humans.

The book projects the baby boomer generation into the future when they are in their seventies and living in a nursing home. The author portrays the characters as feisty and brave individuals.

In the moment of his most urgent need he is befriended by a young girl who herself is facing her own mortality. Through her courage he attempts to regain control of his life, and with the help of a Korean War veteran and a retired cop, he attempts to help her fulfill her secret wish.

Unknown to Ray, the tragedy that turned his life upside-down was no accident. He has no idea that his attempt to re-enter his former life will make himself and those around him targets of a power hungry madman.

Robodick is another popular Krong The Watcher story.

A man is found murdered in his bedroom. His wife has a badly beaten face. The cops figure they have another classic killing by an abused wife. Then Eddy Dix, his girlfriend Roxie Russell, and Robodick, the robot crime fighting super sleuth, arrive at the crime scene. Robodick, who has the best nose in the universe–about 100 times better than a pig's nose, which is better than a dog's nose–uses his powerful sense of smell and insists the man was murdered by someone else, not by his wife. The cops don't believe him even though the wife insists she was beat up by her husband's ex-wife after the she killed her ex-husband then ran from the house.

The cops just won't believe a robot nose can smell out crime so quickly and so easily, but Eddy and Roxie do, and so do the Watchers who made Robodick.

Robodick has many incredible abilities and nine small, round or oval robot helpers who are stored in recesses in his body.

The cops won't listen to Eddy, Roxie, and Robodick. They refuse to believe that Robodick's nose can smell out crime, which means the dead man's innocent wife will be sent to jail for life if Eddy and Roxie fail to make the cops believe in Robodick and his super nose, his super talents, and his small robot super evidence gatherers!

This story is about an ex-marine, Pete Logan, who leaves a lucrative moonshine operation in order to bring home from Vietnam a nun, his mother by choice, against her wishes.

After commandeering an Australian helicopter, Pete crashes into a dense jungle, infested with North Vietnamese soldiers. His American Red Cross emblems would have no meaning, except as valued souvenirs taken from a dead corpse.

THE LURE OF MYSTERY IS ANOTHER HANNABLE HATHAWAY HOE MYSTERY.

A retired old man, an avid fisherman who spends a lot of time out on the west jetty protecting the entrance to Alametoes Bay, Long Beach, California, gets beat up at the end of the jetty by another fisherman who steals a big fish from him. Turlock Holmes sees an article in the newspaper about the incident, becomes interested, telephones the old man, and invites him to Hannable Hoe's office. The old man, whose name is Holbrook, meets Hannable and Turlock, who listen to the story of how he got beat up on the end of the jetty. The story doesn't add up to Turlock, so he and Hannable decide to investigate the case for Holbrook for free.

One of the oddest things about Holbrook's story is the fact that the big fish he caught was already dead when he reeled it in. At the time, he was using an unusual lure that he found snagged in the rocks when he was skindiving a few days before. And, why did the thug who beat him up take the big fish and the unusual lure Holbrook had found snagged in the rocks?!

Why do the officials always throw a penalty flag just when your favorite football team makes a spectacular play or scores the winning touchdown? It seems like your team not only has to beat the opposing team but they have to beat the officials too. Maybe the officials are supposed to throw the flag at the right time. Are the games fixed? Who are these monsters in black and white stripes? Where do they come from and where do they go after the game? What dark secrets are they trying to hide? Come into the world of the Universal Football League where the truth is twisted and sex, booze, and drugs run rampant! At least with the officials!

The Secret of Mary Miles Minter’s Mother is about the mysterious murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor back in 1922 and how David and Elizabeth Williams, a multimillionaire brother and sister who happened to live on their magnificent estate of Tarnhelm near Hollywood, actually solved it. Traveling to Egypt, they join an archeological dig at Abu Simbel, where they are threatened with imminent death for a murder they never committed. They partake of some mysterious "Atlantis Tea" (which produces a rather unexpected and humorous side effect), and in the process learn the truth concerning Atlantis, as well as the true origins of Egypt, its gods and goddesses, and the Illuminati. Then they travel back to Hollywood, where they begin to unravel the mystery of William Desmond Taylor’s murder by having a very unique interview with silent film star Mary Miles Minter. They throw a toga party to end all toga parties at their mansion, partake in a secret Midnight grave robbery in a Hollywood cemetery, and engage in some "ghostly sleuthing" through secret passageways beneath a film set in the California desert. They rescue a "live mummy" and finally become involved in an ancient Egyptian temple ceremony to (literally) raise the dead! In the process, our hero and heroine finally get to the bottom of this seemingly unsolvable mystery once and for all, and with the help of silent film friends like Cecil B. DeMille, bring the true perpetrators to justice with some incredibly hilarious results!

Summer of the Brilliant-- Winfield Devlin, is bringing his yawl Brilliant home to Miami after cruising in the Bahamas with his friend, Sylvia. A chance meeting at the Pilot House Bar in Nassau with Snake Moran, an unconventional and mysterious art dealer drags him into a world of drugs and depravity. He struggles to live a normal life maintaining the highest standards of his difficult profession, racing sailboats and searching for the perfect woman but he is forced to survive constant tests of his integrity and courage when a young girl’s life and sanity are at risk. Devlin tries to live by his personal code of honor while he searches for answers. He is aided by a group of unusual friends. These include his sailing companion, Sylvia, a psychiatrist from his troubled past, an incredibly beautiful millionairess, a priest who builds model railroads, two recovering alcoholics and a gorgeous TV journalist. Eventually, he is sucked deeper and deeper into the dark vortex of crime and violence where black is sometimes white. Despite dire warnings from a psychiatrist, committing murder becomes a realistic alternative.

Vaya con Dios,
Hank Burroughs