Joseph Allen

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Would a devout Roman Catholic man on the verge of getting married to the girl of his dreams jump off the roof of a high-rise apartment building, simply because he was having financial problems? Hugo, Gabriele and Ruth investigate the death, in Yonkers NY, on behalf of recently retired NYPD detective and current lawyer, Mike di Saronno, working hand-in-glove with Danny O'Toole, detective with the Yonkers PD. Hugo and his team fly to Acapulco to meet Felipe's extended family, including former gangbanger Gonzalo, Felipe's cousin who is rolling in dough from ill-gotten gains. The mentally unstable owner of the building, Aristotle Costas has a nervous breakdown, and his gay son, Demetrios, attacks Felipe's girlfriend sexually in the building elevator. The strongest person in the Costas family is Aristotle's wife, who is not even Greek genetically. A cast of many characters provides thrills and chills from beginning to end. Did he fall or was he pushed?

Two teen-age brothers vanish walking home from school, and are found dead more than twenty miles from their posh Trinity School on the upper west side of Manhattan. They set out to walk home to their family's Fifth Avenue mansion, near 96thStreet. Were they kidnapped? No ransom demand is ever made. How did the boys get to Westchester County? They both died from blunt force trauma, probably from falling from a tree or a cliff. Based on a real family tragedy from the late Middle Ages but set in today's New York, Monte Carlo and Westchester County, the story of who did what to whom in the troubled Coniston family is surprising and chilling.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

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No sooner has handsome, partially disabled Ned Savage moved into the apartment next door to Hugo Miller, than he is apparently murdered with a heavy candlestick to his head while he is collapsing into anaphylactic shock in his living room, due to a fungus that is commonly found on marijuana plants. The action happens in and around several productions of "Twelfth Night" in NYC and at a nearby Shakespeare festival. Hugo, Gabriele and Ruth travel to California to see a high-tech cannabis operation, to London to visit Ned's pregnant wife (a secret marriage), and to Istanbul to meet a famous author who has invested in Ned's career. Ned's sexuality and his pregnant wife's preferences aren't clear, and Gabriele Cortese is part of a love triangle involving both of them. But the keys to the solution are found on a stormy night filled with lightning and fools in New York City.

Former ADA Eddie Hill, divorced African-American father of two, plans to marry Jimmy van Gelsen, wealthy gay man who, like Eddie, has been unlucky in love. Eddie is injured in a car accident on the NY Thruway, and Jimmy is shot in the forehead, killing him instantly. Was it Eddie's gun? If so, with Eddie in the hospital upstate, who pulled the trigger? Hugo, Ruth and Gabriele sort through a thicket of clues-a stolen Bentley, a shabby vacation home on Antigua, a multimillion-dollar co-op in Greenwich Village with fabulous art. Major political demonstrations with thugs and tiki torches, reminiscent of the Charlottesville riots with protesters battling in the streets-one at a prayer vigil, one a "Million Woman March" down Fifth Avenue, another outside the Copley Plaza in Boston. Eddie runs for Congress from a mixed-race district in Brooklyn. Jimmy's will left a fortune to Eddie, who doesn't want any of it. Is it a right vs left murder? A gay-bashing murder? A robbery gone wrong? The answers are close to home.