Everyman detective Charlie Bradshaw returns for his second mystery. Having left behind his career as a cop for a job as a security guard at a Saratoga stable, middle-aged, divorced Charlie thinks his life has finally calmed down. Until, that is, his boss is shot while swimming. As Charlie digs deeper into the murder and the murky world of Saratoga Spring's racing scene, fighting the bumbling local police at every turn, he discovers a conspiracy that reaches right to the top.

Three short adventures set in New York and Saratoga.

Everyman detective Charlie Bradshaw returns with sidekick Victor Plotz for a fourth mystery in Saratoga Springs. In search of an easy buck, Victor has found a sideline taking photos of tourists, but his new career nearly kills him when he is the subject of a hit and run and his camera in snatched. Meanwhile, Charlie has his own problems when a maid is apparently murdered in the hotel owned by his mother and a waiter suspiciously vanishes. The two cases come together as a spate of robberies suggests something else is going on.

Morally flexible sidekick Victor Plotz takes on the ninth mystery for everyman detective Charlie Bradshaw. Now working at the Horse Pavillion at the Saratoga Springs racetrack, Victor finds himself being followed as a badly behaved horse named Fleshpot begins to make waves. Several murders and a breath-taking car chase see Victor himself come under suspicion while Charlie faces up to his own commitment issues - a fate worse than death.

Everyman detective Charlie Bradshaw lands deep trouble in his sixth mystery in Saratoga Springs. Three puzzles revolving around poems come together in a perplexing case: an octogenarian in a nursing home writes a strange verse about the death of one of the carers; robberies at the Bentley Hotel are accompanied by a rhyme left by the burglar; and a poetry critic is attacked. Into this mess stumble Charlie and his ineffectual companion Victor Plotz. One terrible disguise and some very suspect sleuthing later, and our heroes are in trouble again.

Everyman detective Charlie Bradshaw lands deep trouble in his third mystery in Saratoga Springs. Private eye Charlie, ever the outsider, finds himself in hot water when a former jockey due to testify in court on a race-fixing scam is found decapitated, apparently given up to the mob by Charlie himself. Now Charlie must hunt down the killers and clear his name, all while staying alive and keeping his scheming companion Victor Plotz on a leash. But both are easier said than done...

Everyman detective Charlie Bradshaw and sidekick Victor Plotz dice with death in their fifth mystery in Saratoga Springs. Gambling, an art heist and dog fighting collide in Charlie's latest case, which once more lands on his doorstep when his pal Victor's gambling party is robbed at the Bradshaw family hotel. It's Super Bowl Sunday, and one of the five gamblers present at the party has an agenda beyond mere money - but who? And are they willing to kill to get what they want?

Morally flexible sidekick Victor Plotz takes centre stage in the eighth mystery for everyman detective Charlie Bradshaw in Saratoga Springs. Wealthy stable owner Bernard Logan comes to Charlie and Victor for help, believing his young wife is trying to kill him. Three days later, a horse kicks him to death. With Charlie away, Victor throws himself into solving the case himself, finding all manner of rats coming out of the woodwork who wanted Bernard dead. The question is, who did it?

"Ever since the cops revoked his private investigator's license, Charlie Bradshaw has been adjusting to life as a regular senior citizen. But reading, sitting around the house, and making amateur home repairs is a far cry from his past life as Saratoga Springs' most successful everyman detective. So when Charlie discovers the sprawled corpse of Saratoga Springs' biggest nuisance on his sidewalk, the ex-P.I. is torn. Should he risk asking questions of his own, knowing he could easily be prosecuted for doing P.I. work without a license? Or should he avoid the trouble and spend his twilight years in peace?"--

Everyman detective Charlie Bradshaw finds an old case coming back to haunt him in his seventh mystery in Saratoga Springs. When a convict Charlie sent down some two decades earlier is paroled, death threats start arriving, while the skull of a woman who supposedly fled to South America shows up on a building site, drawing the detective back to his old case. Meanwhile, girlfriend Janey wants to see some commitment from Charlie, and Victor is generally being unhelpful in the way that only the world worst hotel detective can.