Anthony Wolff: 17 books

The detectives learn the hard way how dangerous a rottweilers teeth are when they try to locate a missing pet at a remote puppy mill. Their client has cared for two elderly ladies whose valuable antiques were replaced by cheap fakes. When the old ladies fall to their death, the client faces charges...

An antique porcelain jar that once held party favors for an Emperors guests is now filled with heroin and shipped across the Pacific. An old, retired drug-sniffing dog and its owner call attention to the crime. To distance themselves from the shipment, the guilty try to destroy the reputations of...

The greatest evil can thrive when it is able to masquerade as a great good. Children are disappearing from a highly regarded academic haven for orphaned and abandoned kids. Finding these missing kids will force the detectives to risk public censure by unmasking a much-loved religious leader and benefactor....

Often, what seems to be beautiful and harmless is as deadly as the Amazons sapphire colored frog. Beryl Tilson and Sensei Percy Wong search a South American jungle for a rich American woman who has been the victim of a prison pen-pal confidence racket. It is unthinkable that she is being held in a brothel that caters to the diseased, yet that is where their search takes them.

Three private investigators, all with Zen Buddhist backgrounds, are hired to determine whether or not the clients mother is dead, as she is alleged to be. If she is dead, he wants to know how she died. If she is not dead but is being detained somewhere, they must locate her. Peculiar Aztec artworks...

What is injury and can be dealt with through ordinary means? And what is insult and must be opposed, with violence, if necessary. A college basketball player whose family was cheated out of its wealth takes no action against the family who swindled them. Yet, when a dinner served at their table is...

In this final volume of the series, the detectives investigate an African lion safari which they suspect was used to divert attention from the crime of murder. They encounter violent opposition when unscrupulous canned hunt operators want to infiltrate areas in which wild rogue male lions are legally hunted.

Can faith be a weapon that is used against the believer? Someone is trying to kill the heiress of an estate or use her faith to have her declared unfit to manage her affairs. The detectives must discover who is trying to harm her. Are the threats against her coming from outside the house or from someone...

A woman borrows her housekeepers car and drives off a cliff. She had claimed that her daughter had just called, saying that she was injured at the base of the cliff and needed help. But the daughter insisted she knew nothing of such a call.. How could a mother have failed to recognize her own childs...

What happens when we finally find the courage to confront an old tormentor but we discover, too late, that we lack the physical force to overcome him? It isnt always brains and heart that prevail. The detectives must overcome a clients desire for revenge to prevent her from being victimized a second time.

In the course of a marriage swindle, four vicious con-men use a clever ploy by hiring the detectives to prove the integrity and financial security of their next victim. They say that they want to be certain of the quality of the prospective brides lineage. When the investigation is revealed, the victims...

Few crimes are as difficult to solve than those which are committed under the guise of religion. A group of people resort to theft, blackmail, sadism, and murder to enrich themselves while they present the face of loving care and devotion to spiritual principles to the public The detectives are engaged...

Self-destruction is not always a motive for suicide. Spite and revenge can set in motion actions that appear to be murder. The detectives must prove that a man has been unjustly convicted of murder. In doing this, they discover that he has committed even more horrible crimes.

When family loyalty is given a monetary value, does it become like any other commodity - subject to market pressures that can be manipulated by greed and vanity? Can a single act of family corruption continue to benefit the descendants of the perpetrators and to harm the victims? The detectives must...