Slim Callaghan Series

* The Urgent Hangman *
A stepfather has disinherited his four degenerate nephews, giving everything over to "Cyn". Cynthis Meraulton is afraid they may try to murder the stepfather before he has a chance to change his will--pinning the crime on her.

* Dangerous Curves *
Vivacious Mrs. Riverton has hired Slim to find her missing stepson, whom she admits she hates.

* You Can't Keep the Change *
Slim Callaghan is called to Margraud Manor in Devon where valuable jewels have been stolen. His investigations take him to a shady nightclub in London haunted by the criminal classes.

* It Couldn't Matter Less *
Callaghan is persuaded by Inspector Gringall of Scotland Yard to meet with Doria Varette a torch singer in a nightclub. She hires Callaghan to look for her missing boyfriend Lionel Wilbery. Before long Callaghan realise he has got into a case that is far more complex than it first seems.

* Sorry You've Been Troubled *
Callaghan barges into a case involving a £40,000 insurance claim following a suspicious-looking suicide, despite the fact that he doesn't represent any client.

* They Never Say When *
Callaghan is hired by a Mrs. Paula Denys who claims that she paid a thief to steal a priceless coronet from her husband's safe. Now he refuses to hand over the stolen object and is instead trying to blackmail her.

* Uneasy Terms *
Callaghan encounter a case in a small country village near Alfriston where a wealthy woman may have been killed by any one of her three attractive daughters, furious about the terms of the new will she was drafting.

* Calling Mr. Callaghan *
No investigation is too audacious for Callaghan, who finds time, between the obligations of booze and broads, to solve twelve piquant mysteries. He is aided of course, once again, by the redoubtable Windemere Nikolls and loyal secretary Effie Thompson.