Ricky Smith jumps from the fifth floor of a burning hotel and survives. He plays blackjack and wins two hundred thousand. He plays roulette and pockets a qua...

Private detective and gambling fraud expert Tony Valentine is again on the warpath: he needs to rescue his own son Jerry from trouble, who has embarked on ye...

From the national bestselling mystery novelist the Wall Street Journal calls "One terrific writer" comes a heart-pounding thriller pitting a deadly serial...

"No one in the world does this stuff better than Jim Swain." – Lee ChildWhoever says crime doesn't pay isn't doing it right. There are hundreds of casinos...

In Shadow People, national bestselling author James Swain's brilliant follow-up to Dark Magic, magician Peter Warlock has a dark secret. A psychic who pee...

This collection of Gothic stories includes the best examples of “ghost stories” by English and American writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, dedicated to ...

When last we saw Tony Valentine — former cop, lifelong misanthrope, and legendary catcher of casino cheats — he was just coming up for air after a close b...

Swain, author of the gambling crime series starring Tony Valentine (_Grift Sense_, etc.), avoids many of the clichés of the antisocial ex-cop novel in thi...

The main character of the novel is a former police officer, and now a private detective and owner of a detective agency, Tony Valentine. The agency is called...