<div><b>Jake and his wife grapple with a harebrained Nazi doctor</b><BR>Jake Pace is battling a bistro&rsquo;s worth of robotic mafia goons when the government comes to ask him a favor. The Department of Big Business has a particularly sensitive murder on its hands, and Jake, proprietor of Odd Jobs, Inc., is a sensitive detective. A week ago, Statz Kazee announced to a television audience of 140 million that his next scoop would blow the lid off the international business community. Hours later, he was found shot to death, and every federal policemen sent to investigate the murder has wound up dead. Now it&rsquo;s Jake&rsquo;s problem. After battling malfunctioning skycars, sinking houses, and mysterious cowboys, Jake and his wife learn that Statz had information about the fearsome Adolph Hibbler, the nastiest sinner to ever come out of the Nazi scientific community. Seventy years after the end of the war, Hibbler is back, and he&rsquo;ll burn America to the ground if Jake can&rsquo;t handcuff him first.</div>

Hail Hibbler

<div><b>His brain scrambled, Jake tries to clear himself of a murder charge</b><BR>Jake Pace comes to on the floor of a dungeon, where a robot jailer is killing rats. The last twenty-four hours are a blank; he doesn&rsquo;t remember anything since he stepped into his skycar, chasing a tip on the Big Bang murders. For weeks the killings have stumped every officer in the government&mdash;costing six of them their lives&mdash;but a soprano named Palsy Hatchbacker told Jake she knew something that could break open the case. Before he met Miss Hatchbacker, a carnation-wearing goon spritzed Jake with a memory-wiping spray. When the police found him, he was sleeping peacefully next to Palsy&rsquo;s corpse, a laser pistol in his hand.  While he rots in jail, the Big Bang killer continues his rampage. Only Jake can bring him to justice, but first he must break out of an inescapable jail.</div>

Big Bang

<div><b>A dead woman hires Jake to investigate her murder</b><BR>Jake Pace is halfway through mixing a batch of cookies when his lawyer arrives with a corpse. The body in the coffin is an android, built in the shape of recently deceased electronics heiress Sylvie Kirkyard and implanted with a chip that holds Sylvie&rsquo;s memories. Although she was only twenty-seven, Sylvie had for a long time feared for her life, and took the precaution of insuring her consciousness with Kirktronics&rsquo; patented Brainz, Inc. method. Upon her death, the chip was implanted in this electronic body, and the body was brought to Jake.  Luckily, as the planet&rsquo;s smartest private detective, Jake is used to corpses&mdash;robotic and otherwise. When the dead girl awakes and asks him to find her killers, Jake doesn&rsquo;t blink an eye. But fulfilling her last request will be perilous, and by the time it&rsquo;s over Jake may wish he had a spare body of his own.</div>

Brainz, Inc.

<div><b>John Easy searches California for a screenwriter&rsquo;s daughter who&rsquo;s back from the dead</b><BR>In 1972, Los Angeles is the wacko capital of the world. Gurus, junkies, and wannabe actresses all wind up here, and when one goes missing, John Easy is there to investigate. A hip private eye with a battered VW and a major turtleneck collection, he&rsquo;s pondering an encroaching wildfire when his secretary tells him that Frederic McCleary&rsquo;s daughter has risen from the dead. Five years ago, Jackie McCleary took a dive into the Pacific Ocean, leaving her old man nothing but a suicide note and his Academy Awards to keep him company. Her body was never found, and her father has long nursed a secret hope that she is still alive. Out of the blue, he receives a letter in Jackie&rsquo;s handwriting asking for a meeting. When she doesn&rsquo;t show, he hires John Easy to find his daughter in a city whose citizens all too often resemble the living dead.   <BR></div>

If Dying Was All

<div><b>A vanished jungle princess forces John Easy to visit the capitol of kook: San Francisco</b><BR>The jungle scenery is costing Marco Killespie a cool hundred thousand dollars. A stickler for quality, this king of television advertising doesn&rsquo;t mind writing big checks, but his latest masterpiece&mdash;a root beer commercial&mdash;is in serious danger of going over budget. Everything was going fine until his leading lady, the up-and-coming Jill Jeffers, disappeared. When a blonde goes missing in 1970s Los Angeles, it&rsquo;s best to call John Easy. A too-cool private eye whose wardrobe is in better shape than his worn-out VW, he knows every hiding spot in California. The first thing he learns is that Jill is a senator&rsquo;s daughter. Next he discovers that she&rsquo;s gone to San Francisco, the weirdest place on Earth. Finding her there will be just as simple as a walk in the jungle.</div>

Too Sweet to Die

<div><b>As earthquakes shake Los Angeles, John Easy looks for a missing adman</b><BR>John Easy never likes to get out of bed, especially when the woman beside him is as beautiful as Jill Jeffers, but no man can argue with an earthquake. The quake subsides after a few moments, but another one is coming. Something fierce is about to rock Los Angeles, and California&rsquo;s hippest private detective is going to be right in the middle of it. Gay Holland, Easy&rsquo;s newest client, is rich, lonely, and missing her brother Gary. The owner of a boutique radio advertising firm, Gary is recently divorced and has a married girlfriend. His apartment has been trashed, and whoever did it was violent, professional, and in search of something to do with Gary&rsquo;s collection of archaeology texts. Finding Gary will mean digging deep under Los Angeles&mdash;assuming the next quake doesn&rsquo;t shake the city apart first. <BR></div>

One Grave Too Many

<div><b>An all-star serial killer terrorizes Earth&rsquo;s smartest detectives</b><BR>Raffles Tunny, a juggler in the employ of the United States government, is relaxing at his Swiss chalet when a killer comes to call. He&rsquo;s found the next day, electrocuted in the style of serial murderer Shocker Fulson, the man with the electric touch. The trouble is, Shocker&rsquo;s dead&mdash;cremated and interred in New Orleans&mdash;and Raffles is not the first victim. Six other government-employed entertainers are have been murdered, all of them killed in the style of an executed madman. A case this insane demands an equally insane detective, which means it&rsquo;s time to call Odd Jobs, Inc. Jake and Hildy Pace have made names for themselves solving impossible murders. But nabbing the copycat lunatic will mean facing down the Amateur Mafia, a gang of belly-button ventriloquists, and the strangest doctor the future has ever seen. One false step, and they&rsquo;ll follow Raffles to the great music hall in the sky.</div>

Calling Dr. Patchwork

<div><b>A copywriter&rsquo;s wife has vanished, and only John Easy is slick enough to save her</b><BR>Jim Benning makes $25,000 a year writing drivel for the admen at the Arbogast &amp; Joseph Agency, and his wife thinks he&rsquo;s worth a whole lot less. Joanna is a model: nervous, beautiful, and prone to meltdowns. In a last-ditch attempt to save their marriage, she agrees to a few sessions with a psychiatrist in San Ignacio&mdash;a quack whose psychobabble is more sinister than it appears. But when Joanna disappears, Jim&rsquo;s only hope is John Easy, the hippest P.I. in Hollywood. Jim gives John a matchbook found in his wife&rsquo;s purse for a club called Maybe&mdash;a swinger&rsquo;s hideout where morality is not in style&mdash;and John plunges into the seedy side of sunny San Ignacio, where the copywriter&rsquo;s wife led an entirely different sort of existence. To save Joanna from her shadow self, John Easy will have to swing harder than ever before.</div>

Ron Goulart

Books By Ron Goulart (8 Books)

Hail Hibbler

Big Bang

Brainz, Inc.

If Dying Was All

Too Sweet to Die

One Grave Too Many

Calling Dr. Patchwork

The Same Lie Twice

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