Something Wicked This Way Comes by the author Ray Bradbury is brought to mind by P.I. Jim Richards as a carnival has arrived in Las Vegas and is now the center of his attention for possible criminal activities. Children are starting to vanish and there's a number of jewelry store thefts involving most mysterious circumstances. Things are not as they seem in this twentieth novel by Bob Moats.

Classmate MurdersJim Richards races to uncover a sinister plot involving a lethal killer, female childhood classmates, and a TV talk show host who he might just have fallen in love with. Someone is murdering women from the class of '67, and it's up to Jim Richards, who has reluctantly just turned 60, to stop him.Vegas Showgirl MurdersJim and Penny, Buck and Deacon, travel across the country to Las Vegas, where Deacon’s sister, a showgirl, narrowly escapes being poisoned. Another showgirl took the poison possibly meant for her. Then a second showgirl is suddenly murdered, and Jim and his friends must take action to bring the murderer to justice.Dominatrix MurdersJim Richards, the senior citizen sleuth, has returned from Las Vegas and has opened up his investigation business. His first client is a housewife wanting to find out if her husband is cheating on her, but is there more to their relationship than just cheating? Is her husband a killer of wealthy wives and into bondage? Is this wife going to die, or will the murder of his personal Dominatrix stop his plans?