Justin Scott

"The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Anna Pape was not alone in her fate--petite...

An exciting, fast-paced story of revenge and love set on the oceans of the world, from the South Atlantic to the oil-slicked reaches of the Persian Gulf.

"It is 1905, and as Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin--shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range--kills Bell's best witness, a brave and likable man. Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victim's...

"It is 1921, and Prohibition is in full swing--even as millions still imbibe and ruthless criminals get rich by selling them booze. Cops, feds, and Coast Guardsmen are all susceptible to bribery. But when his boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and near-fatally wounded while chasing bootleggers, Bell enters the fray. Bell promises his friend that he will try to save the Van Dorn Detective Agency from the corrupting effects of Prohibition....

"On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize business and popular culture-and perhaps something more....

"It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell's boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers, but he doesn't know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn's shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear...

On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize business and popular culture-and perhaps something more....

"From Wall Street and Greenwich Village to Chinatown, Harlem, and beyond, the streets and skyscrapers of Manhattan are brimming with crimes and misdemeanors. Now, best-selling suspense author Mary Higgins Clark invites you on a tour of these iconic neighborhoods in Manhattan Mayhem, an anthology of all-new stories from Mystery Writers of America, produced to commemorate its 70th anniversary." -- From dust jacket.