Alice Rogers, an elderly widow, is dead, found murdered in the Arizona desert. It's easy enough to pin the killing on the teens caught driving her car across the Mexican border, but Sheriff Brady isn't about to let it go at that. Alice was something of a free spirit, with a penchant for Scotch, the glitter of Las Vegas, and a romance with a man twenty years her junior. Her hot-tempered daughter Susan suspects Mom's boyfriend-her former handyman who...

The search for missing gold takes the Hardy boys to the Yucatán Peninsula where they uncover a second mystery.

Detective Chief Inspector Brock's sleep is disturbed early one morning when he is called to a burnt-out camper van in Richmond, Surrey. The van contained two badly burned and very dead bodies, and first conclusions are that the occupants have been the victims of an unfortunate fire. But it is not long before Brock and his assistant, Detective Sergeant Dave Poole, discover the truth: that a double-murder has been committed. As enquiries progress, it...