New York Private Detective Steven Hawk is called to Los Angeles to handle a case, but when he arrives he discovers that his client has been brutally murdered. He is quickly thrust into a tangled web of corruption, crime, deceit, detectives, double-cross, embezzlement, murder, and mystery. Added to this already deadly cocktail is a sultry femme-fatale torch singer who is entangled in a web of criminals, deceit, lies, and deadly intentions... all which may prove fatal for Steven Hawk.

SYNOPSIS:

Bank President Henry Miller is pursued through the rainy streets of Los Angeles by mob goons. Henry is fatally injured after crashing his car. His secretary Susan Johnson then finds herself relentlessly stalked by a very ominous figure. Terrified, Susan calls her aunt in New York City. Her aunt is the secretary of Steven Hawk. Soon after speaking with her aunt and Steven on the phone, Susan is brutally murdered in her home.

Steven Hawk arrives in Los Angeles expecting to meet and help Susan, but finds detectives at her home instead. They inform him that Susan has been murdered. Caught off-guard and shocked, Steven and the detectives quickly become at odds with each other. Steven is warned by the detectives that it is an active police homicide investigation and he should return to New York immediately. Steven declines, and is sternly warned by the detectives not to mettle in the investigation or investigate it himself.

Steven does mettle... a lot, which puts him at greater odds with the LAPD detectives. He tries to solve the connection and mystery of Henry and Susan's deaths, uncovering greater mysteries, twists and turns, and a multitude of very suspicious acquaintances and deadly criminal types.

Steven then learns that Henry was involved with a drop dead gorgeous sultry night club singer named Joyce Dorrington. He makes contact with Joyce at the club where she is employed... and is quickly drawn and thrust into a complicated and extremely dangerous web of corruption, crime, deceit, double-cross, embezzlement, murder, mystery, and very deadly intentions. And to make matters worse... everyone wants Steven dead at all costs.

THE FOURTH NIGHT