B.L. Stryker

2. Carolann (a.k.a. Royal Gambit)

One of B.L.'s childhood friends is now a Middle Eastern queen, she is being stalked by assassins after her husband, an arms dealer, is blown up aboard their royal yacht.

3. Blind Chess

Stryker's secretary gets him into a complex case involving her jailed brother, her brother's jailed lover, a murder, and the murder victim's fiancé, a wealthy detective buff who's eager to help B.L. find the killer.

4. Auntie Sue

Stryker's incorrigible Aunt Sue will stop it nothing to get an old mansion for herself and her two septuagenarian friends. Meanwhile, four thugs are trying to urge B.L. out of the business.

5. Blues For Buder

Kimberly's wealthy friend hires Stryker to find a school for her vexatious grandson, who yearns to join an evangelist more interested in his trust fund than his soul.