Quadrant Fiction Studio: 5 books

What if the only way you could discover who killed your brother was to lie to your commanding officer? May 1940. Western Europe is on edge, wondering when the Nazis will strike. America is neutral, woefully unprepared for war, and President Roosevelt tries to steer the dicey waters of international...

Actor turned detective Calvin Carter stands on his favorite place--a stage--when armed bandits attack. Carter and his partner, Thomas Jackson, foil the robbery, and the surviving gunman snitches the name of the mystery man who hired the gang. Both men soon die, taking their secrets to the grave. Turns...

When a group of bandits derails a train and murders an engineer in cold blood, it's not the loot they're after. It's the coffins. Debonair former actor turned railroad detective, Calvin Carter, is on that train. He zeroes in on the object of the robbery. From the clues left behind, corpses...

When bullets burst through a door, unarmed gumshoe Benjamin Wade knows his case just got a hell of a lot more difficult. The smoke clears, the shooter escapes, and Wade finds a corpse. It’s the man he was hired to find. His client would not be happy. Beguiling and enigmatic Lillian...

May 1940, the last days of the Great Depression, and private investigator Benjamin Wade isn’t exactly rolling in the dough. He doesn’t even have a secretary. So he’s in the unenviable position of taking any client that walks in his office. Elmer Smith, a local farmer, has a problem: all...