Detectives Don't Sleep

In 1997, a charismatic young Frenchman called Christophe Rocancourt takes Los Angeles’ glitzy social scene by storm. Drawn by his glamorous lifestyle, celebrities, and wannabes vie to be his friend. But Rocancourt is a slick conman with a violent past, who specialises in parting his victims from their money. Detective George Mueller of the DA’s office is determined to catch Rocancourt. But the elusive fraudster is always one step ahead...

It’s one of the most famous cases in True Crime history, thanks to Truman Capote’s classic book In Cold Blood. The story begins one night in November 1959 when something dark and dangerous drifts into the small village of Holcomb, Kansas, killing four members of the same family. Special Agent Alvin Dewey leads the team investigating this apparently senseless crime. With barely $50 in cash taken from the house, detectives struggle to understand why anyone would want to kill the Clutter...

In February 1912, two bank messengers are robbed when their taxi is stopped by a group of masked men. They are beaten unconscious, and when they wake up, the $25,000 they were carrying is gone. The cops only have one clue to work with - one of the gang had a gold tooth. Sixty NYPD detectives are put on the case, but after two days, have nothing to show for their effort. With the public growing restless, Deputy Police Commissioner George S...

In May 1978, France’s Public Enemy Number One, Jacques Mesrine, escapes from the maximum-security prison, La Santé, in Paris. This marks the first ever escape from La Santé but it most certainly is not Mesrine's first prison break. In fact, it seems no prison in the world can hold him. Enter celebrated detective Maurice Bouvier. Bouvier knows that catching the prolific robber, violent killer, kidnapper and master of disguise will not be an easy task...

In February 1889, wealthy businessman John Fletcher is found unconscious in a Manchester cab and taken to hospital where he is declared dead on arrival. Known to be a heavy drinker, his death is at first put down to alcohol poisoning. But Detective Chief Inspector Jerome Caminada suspects foul play...

It’s April 1955, and an explosion rips through the Meier and Frank Department Store in Portland. The store’s owner, Aaron Frank, is shocked. Even more so when he is handed an extortion letter, promising a bigger blast the following day. The bomber does offer one way out though. He will provide the location of the second explosive device and instructions on how to dismantle it safely. All Aaron Frank has to do is cough up $50,000… Detective Bill Browne is the man tasked with finding the bomber...

In September 1982, two hunters stumble upon the body of a woman buried in a shallow grave by the Knik River in Alaska. Could her death be connected to a spate of missing person cases in Anchorage? When another body is discovered a year later, crack homicide detective Sergeant Glenn Flothe of the Alaska State Troopers is assigned to investigate. As he digs deeper into the cases, he comes to the inescapable conclusion that there’s a sadistic serial killer on the loose...

Sergeant Glenn Flothe of the Alaska State Troopers Homicide Division is on the trail of a serial killer. Flothe’s prime suspect is a successful businessman with a wife and children, living in a well-to-do suburb of Anchorage. Though outwardly respectable, Flothe’s instincts tell him that Robert Hansen has a very dark side indeed. But persuading the DA is another matter. Even when Hansen is accused of kidnapping a sex worker at gunpoint, the authorities take his word against his victims...

In February 1861, concerned railroad bosses learned of a plot to destroy the main route to Washington DC, in order to disrupt the inauguration of President-Elect, Abraham Lincoln. They immediately called in the country’s leading Private Detectives to help stop the attack. Allan Pinkerton, of the famous Pinkerton National Detective Agency, took two of his top agents—Kate Warne and new recruit, Harry Davies, straight to Baltimore to find out what was afoot...

It’s October 1910. An explosion destroys the Los Angeles Times Building. Twenty people are killed, and many more are badly injured. With a rise in domestic terrorism, bombs have been detonating across the United States, as war between the unions and non-unions rages on. Famed private detective William J Burns is hired to find the arsonists. The New York Times once called him “the only detective of genius whom the country has produced...