Charles Cioffi

Writer H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco after the infamous serial killer steals his time machine to escape the 19th century.

The story of Jake Webster, an American expatriate in Vienna who was the operator of Jake's Bar & Grill, an American-style establishment near the scenic heart of the city. In fact, the business was a cover for Jake's actual reason for being in Vienna. He was involved in tracking down various spies and international criminals at the behest of U.S. intelligence, which apparently held something against him which, if disclosed, would have resulted in his being deported from Austria and apparently then incarcerated in the United States. Jake's liaison with U.S. intelligence was a Major Caldwell.

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S. President.

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.