Fear City (1984)

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

A special crimes investigator forms an unlikely bond with a serial killer to bring down a global child sex trafficking syndicate.

Private investigator Mel Sampson is tasked with tracking down the whereabouts of a missing woman from his own past.

In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.

The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...

When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.

Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder in Manhattan leaves detectives baffled, they call on Rhyme to help solve the mystery. Amelia Donaghy, a rookie cop whose quick thinking preserved a gruesome murder scene, is enlisted by Rhyme to be his on-the-scene forensics expert. With Amelia reluctantly acting as Rhyme's able-bodied go-between, the pair piece together cryptic clues the killer leaves behind at the scene of the crime, hoping to catch the grisly serial killer.