When he was alive, Jack Fleming was a reporter. Now that he's dead, he's a private eye with a thirst for justice--and blood. But being a vampire with morals is no midnight stroll on the streets of post-prohibition Chicago. Here the gangs still rule--and they're on the brink of war. Neither crooks nor cops care much about blood, innocent or otherwise, that flows during the fight. But Jack does. Caught between the local hoods and the boys from New York, Jack has to stop the battle before it starts. But how much of his remaining humanity will he have to give up to do it?

Vampire private detective Jack Fleming confronts a double challenge when he takes on the New York mafia and attempts to clear the love of his life from a murder charge. By the author of Cold Streets.

Reptiles and amphibians ruled the world for nearly 200 million years and today there are still over 12,500 of them. Some are huge, the deadliest creatures on earth. Some are tiny, among the strangest to be found anywhere. Together they not only outnumber mammals or birds but in their colourful variety and extraordinary behaviour, they far surpass them.So where did these ancient creatures come from? How have they transformed themselves into the bizarre and beautiful forms that are alive today? And what's the secret of their epic success? In Life in Cold Blood, David traces the story of their evolution and overturns the myth that these creatures are just primitive killers to reveal them for what they truly are.

Elrod's novels of "The Vampire Files" turn the seductive shadows for the noirnovel into sanctuary for fiction's most unusual private investigator--vampireJack Fleming.

Being a vampire isn't as glamorous as it sounds . . . Jack Fleming, Anerican journalist, was bitten by the wrong girl--and Jack joined the living dead. Eccentric detective Charles Escott helps Jack solve any strange cases that happen along . . . and now Jack and Charles investigate the case of the talented young artist whose life is suddenly cut short.

Includes proceedings of the association, papers read at the annual sessions, and lists of current medical literature.