Alan Bernhardt series by Collin Wilcox (#1-5)
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Overview: Aka Carter Wick
Collin Wilcox was an American mystery writer. Born in Detroit, Michigan, his first book was The Black Door (1967), featuring a sleuth possessing extrasensory perception. His major series of novels was about Lieutenant Frank Hastings of the San Francisco Police Department. Titles in the Hastings series included Hire a Hangman, Dead Aim, Hiding Place, Long Way Down and Stalking Horse. Two of his last books, Full Circle and Find Her a Grave, featured a new hero-sleuth, Alan Bernhardt, an eccentric theater director. Wilcox also published under the pseudonym "Carter Wick".
Genre: Fiction | Mystery
Bernhardt’s Edge (Alan Bernhardt #1)
A moonlighting director finds his sideline more dangerous than he expected
Alan Bernhardt is just starting rehearsal when his pager goes off. No one in the small San Francisco theater minds–they know that to make it on the stage, you have to be prepared to do all sorts of odd jobs off of it. But this director’s job is odder than most. He works for Herbert Dancer, head of a boutique private investigation service. A corporate secretary has vanished with a sheaf of valuable documents, and it will take an off-Broadway sensibility to bring her home.
Bernhardt is just closing in on the woman and her boyfriend when he learns that she isn’t running for a profit, but for her life. To save her from the men who hired him, Bernhardt must find her and protect her–because his artistic vision does not include blood on his hands.
Silent Witness (Alan Bernhardt #2)
To unlock the secrets of a homicide, Bernhardt must connect with a terrified child
Dennis tells the police he was sleeping when his wife was killed. Connie stumbled upon a prowler, he says, and paid for the mistake with her life. The police believe his story, but this cold man’s crocodile tears cannot convince Connie’s sister, Janice. She suspects her brother-in-law of a heinous crime, and it will take an unusual investigator to prove her right.
Alan Bernhardt is a theater director in San Francisco who pays his rent with the odd bit of private detective work. Searching for the man who strangled Connie, his biggest obstacle isn’t Dennis, but John–the dead woman’s seven-year-old son. He may have witnessed something crucial on the night of the murder, but this sensitive child is too frightened to speak. Coaxing words out of John will be the toughest assignment of Alan’s directing career, but not half as hard as keeping the boy alive.
Except for the Bones (Alan Bernhardt #3)
A murder witness flees to California for protection, taking refuge in the theater
Diane Cutler is half drunk and half stoned when she sees her stepfather carrying the body out of the house. She and her boyfriend look on, horrified, as real estate tycoon Preston Daniels loads his dead mistress into the car. Unable to resist their curiosity, they follow him, and watch as he dumps the poor woman’s body in the rocks and sand of the Cape Cod landfill. Diane doesn’t know what to do with this dark knowledge, but her boyfriend sees it as an opportunity for blackmail–and is nearly beaten to death for it.
Terrified of her stepfather, Diane flees to the West Coast to ask theater director and sometimes private detective Alan Bernhardt for help. Alan is unavailable, but recommends his girlfriend and protege, Paula, for the job. Paula may be an excellent actress, but playing PI will prove to be one of the most dangerous performances of her career.
Find Her a Grave (Alan Bernhardt #4)
After seven years ruling his empire from prison, Don Carlo remains as powerful as ever, but his heart is beginning to fail. On the verge of death, he begs his right-hand man, Bacardo, to look after his family. Not his wife and children, the don explains, but Louise and Angela—his daughter and granddaughter from a beloved mistress who died long ago.
To Louise, the don bequeaths one million dollars in diamonds, hidden in a cemetery in a tiny California town. Securing her inheritance will mean mortal danger for Louise, Bacardo, and the private investigator they hire to help them—a moonlighting director named Alan Bernhardt. Bernhardt understands the risks, but also knows that the theater and the mafia have two things in common: the understanding that a professional is only as good as his word, and that the only way to survive is to act without fear.
Full Circle (Alan Bernhardt #5)
Raymond DuBois – geriatric multimillionaire – has a problem. It’s his art collection. He can’t leave it to just anybody – especially not the contents of his private gallery, a secret room full of priceless stolen artwork. He’d just as soon not have anyone find out about his hobby – now, or when he dies. His former curator, Betty Giles, could have discreetly disposed of them. But Betty Giles has a problem, too. She’s incommunicado, which is Italian for "hiding out in Europe indefinitely" – hiding from the American authorities, from a fistful of hitmen, and from her old boss DuBois. The only person who knows how to get in touch with her is Alan Bernhardt, private investigator and part-time theater director. The FBI’s trying to get at DuBois. They’d haul Betty Giles in for questioning if only they could find her; and in the meantime, they’re putting pressure on Bernhardt instead. That’s a tough spot to be in, but dealing with the FBI is still easier than dealing with the underworld types who keep sniffing around, looking to prey on DuBois’s weakness. But beyond all this, beyond the Feds and crooks and moneymen and killers, there’s another organization with an interest in the case – ruthless, implacable, never forgetting or forgiving: the insurance industry. They had to pay out for every last piece of that stolen art, and now they’re out for blood. Or money. Or Raymond DuBois. But they’ll start with Bernhardt. It’s going to be one of those weeks….
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