A brilliant young man with an obsession with the Sherlock Holmes series joins an investigation into a series of gruesome murders in New York—but his mysterious motives test the lead detective on the case.

Seeking escape from his dysfunctional family, a businessman hires a retired police officer to kill his wife. It doesn't go as planned.

After a 12-year-old girl goes missing in Boston, an unlikely alliance forms between a private investigator and a cop from out of town who is investigating a cold case murder.

A local detective investigates the murder of a businessman who returned to town after years of being away. The detective holds a conflict of interest in the case: his sister was swindled years ago by the victim.

After the LAPD notices that the same female witness testified for two unrelated homicide cases, one detective must convince the witness to tell there truth before the murderer strikes again.

A private detective in Havana resignedly accepts a case from a wealthy sugar planter whose slave has gone missing — but the detective soon discovers that the slave's disappearance is linked to a larger, unbelievably atrocious crime.

A private detective in San Francisco follows a blackmailer back to his quarters one evening — but before the blackmailer can be interrogated, he is shot dead, his murderer vanishing into the night.

A grocery store worker is shot and killed in a neighborhood in New Orleans, and in the aftermath of the shooting, the entire neighborhood works to protect the killer.

A thirty-year-old deputy in rural Ohio finds the body of a drug dealer hidden off the side of the road. He finds a way to frame his criminal father and brother for the crime—unable as he is to arrest them for the plethora of other crimes they have committed—all without leaving any trace of his involvement.

In an attempt to make up for his mob affiliated father's sins, a young veteran joins the police force, only to battle mafia presence within for force as well.