Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, John Houseman and Douglas Fairbanks Jr star in this 80s horror based on the novel by Peter Straub. When four old friends, Ricky, John, Sears and Edward (Astaire, Douglas, Houseman and Fairbanks Jr), decide to get together once a week to reminisce about times in their youth - calling themselves the Chowder Society - they end up competing with each other over who can tell the most gruesome ghost stories. However, after one member of the society suddenly dies, the three survivors begin to wonder if there could be more behind his death. Could they really be the victims of a real-life ghost story?

The first Callie and Cash thriller is now available in trade paperback! For fans of Scott Turow, Lee Child & Raymond Chandler. "Weissbourd has created an entire genre-Seattle Noir... I devoured the novel in a single night and I think you will, too." -Jacob Epstein, writer and executive story editor, Hill Street Blues Celebrated restaurateur Callie James is stunned when her estranged ex-husband, French investigative reporter Daniel Odile-Grand, strolls into her restaurant on what could have been any Seattle evening. After fourteen years, the story he tells is even more unlikely than his sudden appearance. As she throws him out into the darkness, her nightmare begins. Daniel is targeted and hit by a car, hurled through the front window of her restaurant-broken, bloody and unconscious... Reluctantly, Callie hides him. Returning to her restaurant, she is greeted by two assassins insisting that she produce Daniel or pay deadly consequences. Overwhelmed, and hopelessly out of her depth, Callie hires the only man she knows who can help her: Cash Logan, her former bartender, a man she turned in for smuggling ivory through her restaurant two years earlier, and a man who still hasn't forgiven her. After a vicious attack on her restaurant, Callie's world is thrown into chaos... She and Cash face international money launderers, weapons dealers, professional hit men and jeopardy at every turn. With danger in plain sight, Callie must not only save herself and her world, but also must reckon with who she is and who she must become to survive.

Callie and Cash are back! For fans of Scott Turow, Lee Child & Raymond Chandler. "When you get out of jail, don't ever come back here." Callie James thought those were the last words she'd ever speak to Cash Logan. Two years later, in Danger in Plain Sight, Callie and Cash become an improbable, incompatible team that faces down money launderers, weapons dealers, and professional hit men... while unraveling a conspiracy and ultimately saving her business and their own lives. In Rough Justice, Callie and Cash are back, and their now shared lives are about to be shaken to the core. It's been a year since they had to take on unexpected, lethal adversaries. Having lived through twists and turns, drama and life-threatening danger together... they realize they are wildly in love. The smooth sailing abruptly ends when a half-Algerian female guest, twenty-five-year-old Sara, appears at Callie's restaurant with a shocking, unbelievable story. Someone is trying to kill her, and they've stolen her identity. Desperate for Callie and Cash's help, she shares a stunning, life- changing secret. Called to action, Callie and Cash assemble their unconventional ragtag family-including peg- legged Andre, and Itzac, "The Macher." Together, they go to war with formidable adversaries to attempt to save Sara, putting their own lives on the line. The fierce, global battle leads to Cuba, where they launch an audacious offensive that's shocking even to themselves... and will absolutely take your breath away. With Rough Justice, Burt Weissbourd elevates not only his deeply rich and complex characters, but the entire thriller genre.