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Ever since the Big Uneasy unleashed vampires, werewolves, and other undead denizens on the world, it's been hell being a detective--especially for zombie P.I. Dan Chambeaux. Taking on the creepiest of cases in the Unnatural Quarter with a human lawyer for a partner and a ghost for a girlfriend, Chambeaux redefines "dead on arrival." But just because he was murdered doesn't mean he'd leave his clients in the lurch. Besides, zombies are so good at lurching.

Now he's back from the dead and back in business--with a caseload that's downright unnatural. A resurrected mummy is suing the museum that put him on display. Two witches, victims of a curse gone terribly wrong, are seeking restitution. And he's got to figure out a very personal question--who killed him?

For Dan Chambeaux, it's all in a day's work...

To be dead, or not to be dead...

In the Unnatural Quarter, golems slave away in sweatshops, necromancers sell black-market trinkets to tourists, and the dead rise up--to work the night shift. But zombie detective Dan Shamble is no ordinary working stiff.

When a local senator and his goons picket a ghostly production of Shakespeare in the Dark--condemning the troupe's "unnatural" lifestyles--Dan smells something rotten. And if something smells rotten to a zombie, you're in serious trouble....

Before his way of life, er, death is destroyed, Dan wants answers. Along the way, he needs to provide security for a mummified madame, defend a mixed-race couple (he's a vampire, she's a werewolf) from housing discrimination, and save his favorite watering hole, the Goblin Tavern, from drying up. Throw in a hairy hit-man and a bank robber who walks through walls, and Dan Shamble's plate is full.

Maybe this time the zombie detective has bitten off more than he can chew...

The fur really flies when a serial scalper stalks the supernatural citizens of the Unnatural Quarter, targeting werewolves--and what's sadder than a bald lycanthrope?

Dan Shamble, zombie P.I., is on the case, trying to stop an all-out gang war between full-time and full-moon werewolves. As he combs through the tangled clues to hunt down the bald facts, things get hairy fast.

Shamble lurches through a loony landscape of voodoo tattoo artists, illicit cockatrice fights, body builders assembling make-your-own human kits, and perhaps scariest of all, crazed fans in town for the Worldwide Horror Convention.

Yet the reign of hair-raising terror grows longer. If Shamble can't snip this off at the roots, the whole world could end up howling mad.

From a New York Times--bestselling author, seven hilarious mystery stories starring a zombie detective who won't let death stop his pursuit of justice.

Even being murdered doesn't keep a good detective down, and in the Unnatural Quarter--inhabited by ghosts, vampires, werewolves, mummies, and all sorts of creatures that go bump (or thud) in the night--a zombie P.I. fits right in. Dan Chambeaux, a.k.a. "Shamble," solves a string of madcap cases with his ghost girlfriend Sheyenne, his Best Human Friend Officer Toby McGoohan, and his firebrand lawyer partner Robin Deyer.

Working Stiff contains seven cases from the files of Chambeaux & Deyer Investigations. Dan Shamble must solve the mystery of a stolen deck of fortune-telling cards and the undeath-defying feats of a vampire trapeze artist, finds himself sealed in a coffin in the back of a truck with no idea where he's being taken, and is even hired by Santa Claus to find his lost "naughty and nice" list. Being trapped in an unbreakable monster-proof crypt, deciphering a string of mysterious zombie graffiti, investigating the murder of a costumed fan at a science fiction convention where the monsters are the normal attendees, or tracking down a kidnapped hellhound for legendary vigilante werewolf cop Hairy Harry--it's all in a day's work for Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I.

Contents:

• Stakeout at the Vampire Circus - (2014) - short story
• Road Kill - (2012) - short story
• Naughty & Nice - (2013) - novelette
• Locked Room - (2014) - short story
• The Writing on the Wall - (2014) - short story
• Role Model - (2013) - novelette
• Beware of Dog - (2014) - short story

There's something fishy going on in the Unnatural Quarter. Bodies are floating face-down, the plumbing is backing up, and something smells rotten--even to a zombie detective like Dan Shamble. Diving into the slimy underbelly of a diabolical plot, Dan comes face-to-tentacles with an amphibious villain named Ah'Chulhu (to which the usual response is "Gesundheit!").

With his snap-happy gang of gator-guys--former pets flushed down the toilet--Ah'Chulhu wreaks havoc beneath the streets.

While feuding weather wizards kick up storms and a gang of thieving lawn gnomes continues their reign of terror, Dan Shamble is running out of time--before the whole stinking city goes down the drain...

Dan Shamble, zombie PI faces his most fowl case yet, when a flock of murderous feral chickens terrorizes the Unnatural Quarter. Also in the caseload, Dan deals with the sinister spokesman for Monster Chow Industries, a spreading contamination that drives vampires berserk, a serial-killer demon from the Fifth Pit of Hell, a black-market blood gang led by the nefarious Ma Hemoglobin, a ghost fighting a hostile takeover of his blood bars... and a cute little vampire girl who may, or may not, be his daughter.

With his ghost girlfriend Sheyenne, his bleeding-heart lawyer partner Robin, and his best human friend Officer Toby McGoohan, Dan Shamble is back from the dead and back on the case. The feathers will fly as he goes face-to-beak with the evil peckers.

Bonus: Includes the short story "Road Kill."

Dan Chambeaux was a human private investigator in the Unnatural Quarter, where all the monsters have gathered in hopes of finding normal lives. Even though he was killed in a back alley when a case went sour, Dan "Shamble" is still on the case. Even death won't keep a good detective down...

Now, teamed up with his partner Robin Deyer, a bleeding-heart human lawyer who wants justice for all monsters, his ghost girlfriend Sheyenne, and his BHF (Best Human Friend) Officer Toby McGoohan, Shamble solves a host of bizarre mysteries involving Mayan sacrificial Christmas turkeys, a headless man who is sure his head has been kidnapped, a book collector who finds deadly curses instead of valuable autographs, a medusa who battles stringent beauty contest rules, a vengeful poltergeist who won't obey a restraining order, an infernal monster cooking contest, and more!

In the Unnatural Quarter, the Plot Thickens... and then runs uncontrollably!

When Howard Phillips Publishing announces the 12 + 1 anniversary edition (due to unavoidable production delays) of the famed Necronomicon--the very book that caused the Big Uneasy in the first place--it takes zombie P.I. Dan Chambeaux, a.k.a. "Shamble," to root out the diabolical schemes surrounding the book, and the fanatics who wish to destroy it.

With enough plot twists to confound a professional contortionist, Dan Shamble doesn't have time for light reading. Along with his ghost girlfriend Sheyenne, his firebrand lawyer partner Robin, his best human friend Officer Toby McGoohan, and his ultra-cute vampire half-daughter Alvina, Dan faces an unnatural caseload.

Entire neighborhoods in the Quarter have simply vanished into thin air.

Rogue werewolf cop Hairy Harry struggles to write and market his memoir.

Customer complaints turn monstrous over an auto-mechanic shop run by gremlins, to whom "repair" is a foreign concept.

And when unnatural doppelgangers appear in the shadowed streets, it does not mean double the fun.

Entangled in it all is the mousy virgin librarian--now turned superstar celebrity--whose blood sacrifice, through an accidental paper cut, brought back all the monsters thirteen years ago.

That anniversary is indeed an unlucky number.

A shambling horde of new cases hits Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. in the Unnatural Quarter. Dan and his gang--including his ghost girlfriend, feisty lawyer partner, cop best friend, and little vampire half-daughter Alvina--are out to seek justice, solve mysteries, and keep their heads on straight... or at least attached.

Alvina's singing lessons for the Banshee Tabernacle Choir end on a sour note when the troll choir director plunges to her death from a high belfry, and the only witness is a deaf-as-a-post gargoyle who sits too close to the loud bells.

A frustrated imp, woefully unsuccessful in betting on the nightmare races, is dead certain that his bookie BatGN (GN for "gender neutral" to avoid copyright issues) is cheating him.

Francine, the salty bartender at the Goblin Tavern, is worried when One Fang the vampire--her on-again, off-again suitor--disappears without a trace.

A shady vendor discovers a market for living shrunken heads that are conversational as well as decorative, but the demand by far exceeds the supply.

A heartless therapist has ulterior motives when she counsels zombies, distracting them from their woes to concentrate not just on brains, but on self-improvement as well.

There is much at stake in the Unnatural Quarter, and it's up to Dan Shamble to keep the streets dark and safe for monsters and humans alike. After all, the cases don't solve themselves!

This zombie detective puts the P.I. back in R.I.P.

Dan Shamble, zombie P.I.

He's a stiff detective, and he's got stones!

The cases don't solve themselves in the Unnatural Quarter, filled with ghosts, vampires, mummies, werewolves, and other mythical creatures. It takes an intrepid zombie detective to decipher mysteries, unravel conspiracies, track down cursed objects, and find time for a beer with his Best Human Friend at the Goblin Tavern.

Dan Shamble, zombie P.I., is back from the dead and back on the case in this new collection of eight wacky adventures--featuring a cyclops who lost his eyeball on a drunken bender, an Aztec mummy who wants revenge for too many parking tickets, a crawling hand accused of fingering expensive objects from a curio shop, a distraught mutant fly mother searching for her missing maggots, and the real boogeyman (an insurance salesman) being harassed by his ghoulish aunts. These cases have enough plot twists and stomach turns to keep you guessing, and chuckling, until the very end.

The Unnatural Quarter becomes a grim fairy tale in Dan Shamble's most pointed case.

When the Big Uneasy returned all monsters and mythical beasties to the world, something was missing. After his vampire girl Alvina flunks a school report on unicorns, Dan is embroiled in a deeper mystery: With unnatural creatures on every streetcorner, why has no one ever seen a unicorn?

But other weird clients demand the attention of a zombie P.I.-a lovestruck frog demon just wants her handsome, befuddled prince back after an evil spell wears off.

A fairy godmother entrepreneur and her pegasus partner launch a line of glass footwear, but they find that it's a fragile market.

Hard-working lagoon creatures struggle with trespassers, vandals, and civic ordnances as they launch a new swampy resort and spa.

A gambling-addict dragon needs a special support animal, and the local Bigfeet just want to be seen for who they are.

These cases lead Dan Shamble and his companions to a secret society of Horn Brothers, where unicorns are murdered, where evil wizards are just trying to make amends, where fairy godmothers are not what they seem, and where the unicorns' magical pets-their beloved horn dogs-are being dog-napped by a mysterious force.

And the undead just want a Happily Ever After, like everyone else.

There's a new Big Fish in the Unnatural Quarter!

When the demon Mafia Don receives an eternal prison sentence--life without parole, and he's immortal--a new underworld kingpin rises to the surface. Sammy the Salmon and his scaly goons are running the illicit wolfsbane trade--and bodies start to float belly up. Only Dan Shamble can stop a mafia family war that puts his friends in the crossfire!

But he's tangled in a net of related cases. He teams up with a cowardly bounty hunter to find a deadbeat werecat who left his litter of werekittens with no child support. And he must protect famous mummy author Tut T. T. Tut from fans who want the unfinished manuscript for his Egyptian epic A Game of Pharaohs. (They've been waiting 4000 years for the next scroll in the series!)

Worst of all, a great terror reappears from the past--Rhonda, the ex-wife, demands custody of Dan's vampire half-daughter Alvina! And Rhonda may be the worst monster the Unnatural Quarter has ever seen.