Reluctantly accepting a case to investigate the death of the husband of an ex-lover, Jacob Asch discovers a web of deadly complexity involving a man of great wealth with no visible means of support and indications that the deceased died of a rare disease he had no chance of contracting.

At the Hands of Another

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Lyons,Arthur

Lyons, A.

Mystery

Henry Holt Company

Three With a Bullet

Fred Segal a top California music promoter, hires detective Jacob Asch to find out who is trying to destroy him, but soon Segal becomes a prime murder suspect

Henry Holt Co.

Hired by an artist to track down the wife and infant son he deserted years before, Jacob Asch learns of the woman's remarriage and the son's death in a car crash and then discovers that the teenage son of her second marriage has been kidnapped

Castles Burning (A Rinehart Suspense Novel)

Los Angeles detective Jacob Asch investigates an ordinary domestic case that becomes complicated with multiple murder against the backdrop of the California lifestyle

Hard Trade (Rinehart Suspense Novel)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

Detective Jacob Asch investigates the death of a man whose insurance won't be paid because of evidence of suicide, in a case that involves auto insurance scams, a mysteriously powerful figure, a middle-aged health guru, and the dead man's lovely widow

At the Hands of Another : A Jacob Asch Mystery

Three with a bullet (A Rinehart suspense novel)

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

A journalist's inquiry into the sacrificial death of a young woman leads him to Los Angeles and encounters with Satanists, Jesus people, and the wealthy

The Dead Are Discreet (A Jacob Asch Mystery)

All God's Children (A Jacob Asch Mystery)

When Carlos Realongo, a heavyweight fighter on the way down, is shot and killed in a brothel by his girlfriend's husband, private detective Jacob Asch suspects that the incident involves more than a lover's quarrel

Dead Ringer (A Jacob Asch Mystery)

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

David Fein, owner of a slaughterhouse in a grim little town in Southern California, is a compulsive gambler. Lately gambling has taken over his life. First he couldn't cover his losses at the plant. Then he took a quick loan and went into debt. Now he hasn't come home for four days, and his wife is frantic. When Jacob Asch hears the whole sad story, he figures that Fein is probably sleeping off a four-day drunk in a flophouse. Asch agrees to look for him. What he hasn't counted on is the body on the killing floor. Taken from back of book-

The Killing Floor (A Jacob Asch Mystery)

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