More compulsive fun in this all-new, original mystery starring everyone’s favorite OCD detective, “one of television’s best-loved characters.”(“Honolulu Star- Bulletin”) Leland Stottlemeyer is used to obsessive- compulsive genius Adrian Monk getting all the praise and attention. But the police captain is feeling a little hostile after taking a lot of ribbing about his reliance on his star consultant. Is it possible he’s used the latest round of budget cuts as an excuse to cut Monk loose? But Monk is much too compulsive to stop investigating, even without pay. Soon he’s calling in tips under assumed names to help solve cases. (Who would ever guess the real identity of “Adrian Smith” and “Adrian Jones?”) Then Stottlemeyer is framed for the murder of another cop-and only one detective in San Francisco can save him…
Widowed at twenty-four by her husband Horace’s motorcycle accident, Maggie Murphy is broke, unemployed and all the cosmetic companies say your skin starts drying out at twenty-five. She finds a part-time job which turns into full time when she finds the mutilated body of the man she replaced behind the office dumpster. …