sturgis, milo (fictitious character)

Psychologist-detective Alex Delaware probes into the dark life of Lauren Teague, a young woman he treated years earlier when she was a troubled teenager, whose corpse has been found dumped in an alley.

Two Bel Air lovers murdered in the most intimate of circumstances propel psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis on a twisted path towards the depraved evil found among the super rich.

LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware search for a psychotic killer who is terrorizing the city with no known motive or pattern and teaches Milo and Alex the true meaning of madness.

Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware enlists the help of detective Milo Sturgis to uncover the disappearance of an emotionally crippled woman in the old -money section of Los Angeles.

When Milo Sturgis, homicide detective, encounters a case that involves a sinister killer, he calls in psychologist Alex Delaware to help investigate the murder of several prostitutes and a musician, and the two have trouble coming up with an easy answer as deeper and darker clues arise.

Dr. Alex Delaware goes to Western Pediatrics Hospital to help treat the mysterious illness of a child and gets involved with hospital politics and murder.

"Psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware is surprised to get the call when well-known TV actress Zelda Chase turns up half-naked, half-mad in the LA's rural Westside. He has little connection to the starlet, save a psychiatric evaluation he performed on her adopted daughter several years ago, a child who has since vanished without a trace and whom Zelda refuses to talk about. When the actress turns up dead a few weeks later without a scratch on her, Delaware calls in police lieutenant Milo Sturgis to help him crack the case--or at least the wall of silence surrounding it. When the body of a second actress turns up with the same mysterious cause of death, Delaware and Sturgis start to wonder--is this a copycat case or a coincidence? When they uncover the death of another actress, a star from another era who vanished decades ago, never to be found, they realize they're facing one of the their most baffling, mind-bending cases yet"--Provided by publisher.

Once again, Delaware, an accomplished psychologist, teams with his friend Milo Sturgis, an LAPD detective, to probe a mystery, though this time there's considerable doubt as to the nature of the puzzle. Teenager Tanya Bigelow, whom Delaware treated as a child for obsessive-compulsive disorder, consults him because her aunt Patty, who raised her, conveyed a cryptic message just before she died, apparently confessing to a crime. Shortly after Delaware and Sturgis start investigating, one of Patty's former neighbors turns up dead, the first in a series of corpses that appear, possibly as a result of the duo's turning over old rocks.

Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex enlists the help of detective Milo Sturgis to uncover the disappearance of an emotionally crippled woman in the old-money section of Los Angeles.