E.H. Calvert

Bitterness, affairs, rumors, and deceit offer amateur sleuth Philo Vance clues-a-plenty when members of a wealthy family get picked off one by one.

Just after the Civil War, confederates attempt to establish a town near a Union fort but the peace is broken when an indigenous attack is staged.

A hard-nosed detective and a tenacious reporter compete to crack the case when someone is murdered during an astronomer’s lecture at a planetarium.