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Ein spannender Fall für Lacroix, der viele geheimnisvolle Rätsel mit sich bringt. Wird Lacroix es schaffen die Rätsel zu lösen oder wird ihm die Zeit zum Verhängnis? Seit seine Frau Dominique für das Amt der Bürgermeisterin von Paris kandidiert, steht auch Lacroix im Rampenlicht. Dabei scheut der Commissaire nichts so sehr wie die Öffentlichkeit! Als Lacroix vor den neugierigen Blicken in sein Stammbistro flieht, tritt ein noch viel berühmterer Mann durch die Tür: Éric Seignosse, siebenmaliger Gewinner der French Open und Präsident des französischen Tennisverbands.

London is gripped by the bloodiest outbreak of gang warfare ever seen. Shootings in the street, kidnappings, bombs and car chases have become commonplace. The gutters are running red with blood and the Police are powerless to stop it. Frank Harrison had ruled gangland unopposed for more than two years and yet someone is out to wipe him and his men from the face of the earth. Who and why? The answer, when it comes, will test not just Harrison's courage but his sanity too.

It all starts with a girl and a bag of cash. Candi was the kind of gal who could give a guy indigestion. She was poison, with looks to kill, a reluctant moll looking for a way out. Thurman was a young flatfoot, not necessarily the knight in shining armor. He went to shake out a brawl and nearly fed her his gun, was it any wonder he got a date? They spend an evening on the run, but where does it lead? Just when it looks like it's over - boom! Is it a dead girl, a bag of somebody else's dough, or both?

There's a new medical examiner in town. Working girls and lonely hearts are catching a tough break in Champion City. An unknown killer, a quiet man of malevolent intention, is carousing in low places. A young patrolman catches a bullet when he interrupts the killer in the act. A stack of unsolved possibly related homicides point to a cover up. The previous medical examiner and a parish priest are sharing space in the morgue. The new ME appoints Thurman Dicke as a Special Investigator.

A wealthy man hires Spade to protect him from his former employee, who is just out of prison after five years. Sam is at the morgue. Someone has been killed, and Sam knows who did it. But, he wishes that he didn't.