James Mullaney: 13 books

BANYON INVESTIGATIONS, INC. CASES CRACKED. REASONABLE RATES. When a desperate leprechaun needs to locate his lost pot of gold, there's only one P.I. in town dogged and sober enough to take the case. Unfortunately, his first choice is in Bimini dodging an IRS audit, so he calls on Crag Banyon...

"HELLO. YOU HAVE REACHED BANYON INVESTIGATIONS. MAYBE."Amnesia is to private investigators what chicken pox is to kids: sooner or later they all come down with it.Crag Banyon's bout of pesky P.I. amnesia comes during what may or may not be his biggest case ever. Unfortunately, he can't remember...

BANYON'S BACK WITH ONE HECK OF A CASE! For a savvy private investigator like Crag Banyon, tackling cases that are too hot to handle comes with the territory. But even a plucky P.I. with an occasionally unsavory client roster has his limits. So when a demon shows up at the front door of Banyon...

"Hello, you've reached Banyon Investigations...." Crag Banyon is just your run-of-the-mill P.I. He's got a secretary who loves to hate and hates to love him. His worst enemy in the world is on the local force and relishes the thought of seeing Banyon behind bars. And he's got a knack...

WHO IS THE RED MENACE? Throughout the 1950s this was the number one question from Moscow to Beijing and in every communist palace and malaria-ridden backwater in between. The mysterious masked figure was a shadow and a whisper. For the Kremlin and its fellow travelers he was a damnable monkey...

NEW CASE. NEW CLIENT. SAME HANGOVER. It starts out as a simple maritime stalking case, which Banyon flat-out refuses. The would-be client is the god of the sea, see, and Crag Banyon is a strict reformed agnostic: while he believes in the existence of gods, he prefers it if they don't pester...

CRAG BANYON: WHEN THE MOON IS HIGH, SO IS HE Find a missing book. What could be easier? Not so easy when the book is the sacred Gypsy bible and the P.I. hired to track it down is Crag Banyon, for whom "luck" is a four-letter word spelled B-A-D. The case turns out to be a real...

TURN THAT CROWN UPSIDE-DOWN... When Banyon takes an easy gig bodyguarding the visiting Queen of Albion, he figures for the first time in his career he's finally got it made. A little quick cash for an afternoon's work. What can go wrong? When you're Crag Banyon, don't ask. No...

CRAG BANYON. HE'S JUST SUPER.When Minus, the city's newly minted superhero, shows up at Banyon Investigations looking for help tracking down his archenemy, Banyon's first instinct is to tell his prospective client to take a flying leap. Supervillains are notoriously unforgiving...

HOLD THE PICKLE, HOLD THE HOMICIDE!Something fishy is going on at famous Franklin Morrow's Restaurants. Why is the most successful chain of eateries in the U.S. suddenly catering to the murder and mayhem crowd, and who exactly is the mysterious man in the ten gallon hat with an all-you-can...

A SAFE BET? Official Washington is in an uproar when late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's top secret safe is found and then promptly goes missing. Rumor has it that Hoover was infamous for collecting files on all the nation's powerful movers and shakers, so there's no telling what damning information...

RECIPE FOR DISASTER! Take one psycho beauty hell-bent on revolution. Add millions in illicit cash. Stir in one counterculture army. Simmer in a political pressure cooker until it explodes into America's streets. A devastating attack in the heartland leaves a stunned...

RED IS THE NEW GOLD There's more than meets the eye when inmates riot in a West Coast maximum security prison. What could transform men into wild beasts? Turns out the dead prisoners are guinea pigs in a larger scheme, and Washington sends in the only two men who can deal with the sinister...