From 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review (by Bill Crider)     Barrow returns to New York after two years in Chicago, where he has been trying to forget his wife's infidelities. All he wants from her is the $1600 he left in their joint account, which he plans to use to buy into a private detective agency.     He goes to her apartment to pick up the money, and she shows up drunk. He carries her upstairs and is seen by the neighbors. When he leaves for a minute, she is murdered. Barrow conceals the body, but he is soon being hunted by the police, as well as by his wife's hoodlum friends. He must prove his innocence by finding the guilty party.

    Dictator's Gold…     It was buried deep within the granite of the Fortress del Rey. Ten, maybe twenty million dollars' worth amassed by a greedy and corrupt dictator.     Now a bigtime hood from the States had thrown in with the island's rebel leader to steal it.     But they needed more than a safecracker. They needed a magician.     They sent for Sam Morgan.     Morgan had cracked some big ones in his day, only he had never run into anything like this. It would take a week to open such a vault, and all they gave him was four hours. Four measly hours.     The odds against him were terrifying. But there was a hundred grand waiting for him at the end of the deal… and the one girl he'd waited for all his life.

    CLAYBURN WOULD NEED ALL HIS WITS AND A LOT OF BULLETS-TO GET THIS WAGON TRAIN THROUGH.     First a stretch of desert, then the badlands, and after that mountains just crawling with Apache war parties-that was the trail to the gold rush town of Bannock. And if the early snows didn't stop Clayburn, Adler intended to.     Adler was determined to have only one supply train to reap the huge profits from Bannock-his. And Adler was a man used to winning. Trouble was, so was Clayburn.

Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic -- though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places. He takes pleasure in a fine wine...and a good gun. His French name is Pierre-Ange, and it suits him. In English, it means Stone Angel.Minding his own business at a favorite Nice creperie, Pete notices a teenage girl hurrying by -- with a desperate look on her face. Moments later, two cops arrive, a young actor named Bruno Ravic bursts from a nearby doorway, shots are fired, and Pete's most dangerous case to date begins! The girl is Odile Garnier, and her father (former Grand Prix champ Egon Mulhausser) hires Pete to find her. But what is the connection between Odile and Bruno, who is murdered just a few days later? And why do so many clues seem to lead to the Cannes Film Festival...and to a certain director? Pete Sawyer must go...