The Complete Series
Five noir mysteries set in 1950s San Francisco. Follow private detective Rick Marshall and his unforgettable assistant Inga through the city's shadowy underworld.
"You can't go wrong with a grey fedora."
The Connie
Meet Rick Marshall, a former B-17 pilot scraping a living as a private detective. Along with almost everyone else that day, he hears a massive explosion over the Golden Gate Bridge as a Lockheed Constellation disintegrates in a fireball and falls into the bay. Rick is hired by a local underworld boss to find out who killed his wife, a passenger on the doomed Connie. Rick is assigned an assistant - a six-foot-tall blonde from Iceland who likes to wear men's suits. Inga is a looker, she's very handy with her fists, but maybe she's just there to make sure Rick only finds out so much.
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Be-Bop Deluxe
It's 1955. Inga has joined a cult. Rick is searching for a missing sailor. The Russians have sent a team to steal new electric motor technology from a professor at Stanford. Rick hunts down a blackmailer targeting a very attractive movie star and Chuck Berry plays his first gig in San Francisco at a jazz club called… Be-Bop Deluxe. At that club, Rick meets a young jazz pianist called Chelsea Rhodes, who might not be who she says she is. In fact, there aren't many people in this cautionary tale who are who they say they are. A story full of hot lies, cold deceit and cool jazz.
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Double Down
It sounds like the start of a joke. A good-looking dame walks into a detective's office and asks him to solve her murder. Trust me, there are plenty of punchlines to follow. Inga checks out of a sanitorium just in time to help Rick with this one. He's going to need all the help he can get. Apart from the doppelganger mystery, Rick has to tail his ex and Inga's ex-employer for the D.A. Luckily the ex and the ex-employer are getting married in Vegas - that's if they survive being shot down into the Grand Canyon. Rick goes along for the ride, but don't worry, he's crashed a plane before.
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Fast Cats
A mystery redhead and her daughter survive a sinking ship in San Francisco Bay - only to disappear in the chaos that ensues on the Embarcadero. Elton Dwight, the D.A., hires Rick and Inga to find them. This pits our heroes against the F.B.I., at least two criminal kingpins and the guy running against Mr. Dwight for Mayor. There's also the small matter of a sports car dealership under attack, and a crowd of bigots trying to put Inga's favourite bar out of business.
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A Wing and a Prayer
Two young women brutally slain in England in the mid-forties. Two young women killed in an identical fashion, Washington State, 1958. The connection? Rick Marshall. In a case that covers two decades, Rick must prove his innocence and bring the real killer to justice. He finds a trip down memory lane has more than its share of twists and turns - and reveals unexpected shocks about his past.
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