Detective Noir Comedy

Private eye Eddie Valiant doesn't like Toons - those cartoon characters who live side-by-side with humans. But Eddie will work for a Toon if his cash supply is low enough. So he reluctantly agrees when Roger Rabbit, a Toon who plays straight man (or should that be straight rabbit) in the Baby Herman cartoon series, asks him to find out who's been trying - unsuccessfully - to buy his contract from the DeGreasy Brothers syndicate. Then Rocco DeGreasy is murdered - and Roger is the prime suspect!

Resourceful Bingo Riggs and his partner, Handsome Kusak, are in the sucker-bait business, snapping candid pics of tourists off Central Park. Their fly-by-night enterprise can be irresistible to souvenir lovers, but with one camera in a pawnshop and their developing room in the bathtub of a two-room dump near Hell’s Kitchen, their venture is wretchedly underexposed - until they stumble upon an insurance fraud scheme between the allegedly dead eccentric Mr. S. S. Pigeon and his business partner and beneficiary.

Wisecracking private detective Sam Rockwell is running for his life, but that doesn't keep him from taking the case of a Return who's slipped past Heaven's radar and overstayed his time on Earth. Together with his fiance, Amelia, Sam brawls and dances his way through San Francisco to unravel a zany mystery where nothing is what it seems at first blush.

Robert James, a private detective more interested in chronicling his cases than solving them, gets a midnight call from a young woman whose older husband has been found with a knife in his chest. Murder, corruption, and betrayal ensue as he's drawn into the dark underworld of his client, but hapless Robert and his sidekick, a flower-delivery guy, can't stop drinking, smoking, and philosophizing long enough to keep up. Imagine The Big Sleep via Fernando Pessoa, with a side of Buster Keaton.

The third time is a charm! Jack McCoul is back in the latest installment of the fast, surprising, and witty mystery series featuring a former con man who solves murders. “Loaded with one liners. Keeps the plot turning.” — Kirkus Reviews El Niño brings more than rain to San Francisco. An old flame shows up on Jack McCoul's doorstep and trouble is not far behind. Sparks fly and a storm of swindles, murders, and double-crosses forces Jack back into the game to protect the ones he loves while cracking the mystery of a long-missing child. This time Jack is playing for keeps. Read as a ...

A clever con man trying to go legit and a cast of eccentric characters team up to catch a killer in this fast, surprising, and witty mystery series debut. “Loaded with one liners. Keeps the plot turning.” — Kirkus Reviews When San Francisco con artist Jack McCoul gets married, he vows to give up his life of crime for good. But then his new brother-in-law pulls a heist that lands Jack in the middle of a deadly fight over hot computer chips. As bodies stack up, he must pull off the grift of a lifetime to solve a murder and escape a one-way ticket to death row. Read as a standalone or ...

It was a dark and stormy night in Washington, D.C., and Joe Biden was on the case. No, not as President of the United States, but in his side gig as a private detective -- an old-school, hard-boiled, rather confusing and incoherent private eye who has everyone around him wondering how the hell he manages to get anything done right. When a beautiful dame walks into Biden's smoky office, he knows she's trouble and he's in for a doozy of a case. And she soon finds out that the private eye she's hiring makes no sense whatsoever most of the time. But that doesn't deter either one of them from ...