Leonard, Elmore

Daredevil Dennis Lenahan witnesses a mob hit while looking down from his high-dive platform, and soon finds himself caught up in the mob's web after a second witness begins to blackmail him.

Father Terry Dunn escapes from the horror he has witnessed in his small village in Rwanda and travels to Detroit, where he finds himself on the run from dangerous criminals and government officials who don't believe he is a priest.

Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, pursues a mark, who's behind in payments, to Las Vegas and then to Hollywood where Harry Zimm has gambled away the $200,000 earmarked for his next production.

Bank robber Ben Tyler agrees to participate in a scheme to run guns into Cuba on the eve of the Spanish-American war in 1898, and once there meets and falls in love with Amelia Brown, the mistress of a wealthy American planter who has enough money to keep Ben and Amelia in style for a long time, if only they can figure out how to get it.

Chili Palmer finds himself in an unlikely alliance with LAPD Detective Darryl Holmes, and becomes the target of Russian gangsters when he witnesses a mob hit while lunching with an old friend, but he continues to pursue his next film idea based on the life of Linda Moon, a singer who is struggling to leave her past behind.

Father Terry Dunn thought he'd seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to evade a tax-fraud indictment. Now the whiskey-drinking, Nine Inch Nails T-shirt-wearing padre is back trying to hustle up a score to help the little orphans of Rwanda. But the fund-raising gets complicated when a former tattletale cohort pops up on Terry's tail. And then there's the lovely Debbie Dewey. A freshly sprung ex-con turned stand-up comic, Debbie needs some fast cash, too, to settle an old socre. Now their in together for a bigger payoff than either could finagle alone. After all, it makes sense...unless Father Terry is working a con of his own.

Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, pursues a mark who is behind in payments to Las Vegas and then to Hollywood where Harry Zimm has gambled away the $200,000 earmarked for his next production.

Skirt-chasing, orchid-raising Florida judge "Maximum" Bob Gibbs has made a career of oversentencing convicted felons. He's thrown the book at so many that it's beginning to look like one of them may be planning to throw it back at him. But assassination isn't the worst of the judge's problems. He's got to get his whacked-out wife Leanne out of Palm Beach--fast. For it seems she's becoming an embarrassment, what with her multiple personalities and all. So when Bob starts playing footsie with an alligator poacher in a scam to scare his wife into divorce, and a pretty probation officer named Kathy Diaz Baker catches his lecherous eye, things really start to heat up in south Florida...as bullets start flying, a gator comes crawling, and a lovely lady finds herself in a cross fire of smart crooks, foolish love, and sweet revenge.