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This is a list of the current episodes of the on-going radio drama, '''''[[Black Jack Justice]]''''', by ''[[Decoder Ring Theater]]''. The episodes are divided by season and listed by the release date. Each entry includes the number of the show, its title, a short description of the episode, and its original release date.
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This is a list of the current episodes of the on-going radio drama, '''''[[Black Jack Justice]]''''', by ''[[Decoder Ring Theater]]''. The episodes are divided by season and listed by the release date.
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== Episode list ==
 
== Episode list ==
 
'''Season One'''
 
'''Season One'''
 
{{BJJ One}}
 
{{BJJ One}}
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| <center>[[Justice Served Cold]]</center>
 
| Decoder Ring Theatre is proud to present the first episode of hardboiled pulp detective action with Black Jack Justice! This week, Jack and his partner Trixie Dixon, girl detective learn lost love letters and a mysterious client add up to more than meets the eye. It's upto them to dish out Justice Served Cold...
 
| January 7, 2006
 
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| <center>2</center>
 
| <center>[[Justice for Some]]</center>
 
| When Jack and Trixie are hired to protect a society dame's diamonds at a charity ball, it looks like they've finally caught that elusive nice, simple case. But when the guest list includes not one, not two but three notorious thieves, things get complicated in a heckuva hurry. Times like that a guy's lucky to manage Justice For Some!
 
| January 21, 2006
 
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| <center>3</center>
 
| <center>[[Justice Is Blind]]</center>
 
| Sometimes the answer's right in front of your eyes. Sometimes you're so busy with what you think you saw, you can't be bothered to stop and look again. When Jack and Trixie pay the bills with a little "Peeping Tom" routine, they don't expect the commandments being broken to include the biggest "Thou Shalt Not" of 'em all. But then again, sometimes Justice Is Blind!
 
| February 4, 2006
 
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| <center>4</center>
 
| <center>[[Justice Delayed]]</center>
 
| When Jack and Trixie are hired to solve a seven year old murder, they figure it's a fool's errand. But if this case is so cold, why all the heat from upstairs to lay off? Will they finally run into that brick wall that has their names on it... or will they deliver Justice Delayed?
 
| February 18, 2006
 
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| <center>5</center>
 
| <center>[[Justice Incorporated]]</center>
 
| If it sounds too good to be true, it's all in a day's work at Jack Justice Investigations. When one of the city's most high-powered lawyers wants to buy the agency, Lock Stock and Barrel, Jack and Trixie have just twenty-four hours to figure out what the catch is and torpedo the best offer they've ever had!
 
| March 4, 2006
 
|-
 
| <center>6</center>
 
| <center>[[Justice's Holiday]]</center>
 
| It wasn't much of a holiday by most people's standards... just a turn around the park in the sunshine... but boy oh boy, how the work piles up at Jack Justice Investigations. Piles up right in the middle of the floor in a still-fresh pool of blood. Now all Jack and Trixie have to do with the rest of the day is figure out who the triggerman was and why the corpse had a thousand dollars in an envelope with their names on it. And if they can manage it, solving the case before the law puts them away for it wouldn't be a bad idea either.
 
| March 18, 2006
 
|-
 
| <center>7</center>
 
| <center>[[Justice Be Done]]</center>
 
| Mordecai Brasseau had been nothing but bad luck for Jack Justice Investigations since the first time he walked through the door. A nice man, but a jinx - quite possibly the unluckiest man in the world. Each time Jack and Trixie took on a case for him, they swore it would be the last. Sooner or later they had to be right... and the registered letter inviting them to the reading of Mordecai's will suggested that time had finally come.... Or, maybe not.
 
| June 24, 2006
 
|-
 
| <center>8</center>
 
| <center>[[Justice and the Deluge]]</center>
 
| It was the third straight day of rain that did it. People had been cooped up for days, riding out the storm, and Black Jack is sure that a flurry of human misery, or as he likes to call it - rent money is on its way. But when he turns out to be more right than either he or Trixie could have guessed, they find themselves on an island in the middle of the city, with the water rising fast. An island of the "gaudy, hard-boiled metaphor" variety, admittedly; but sometimes that's the way it goes.
 
| July 8, 2006
 
|-
 
| <center>9</center>
 
| <center>[[No Justice]]</center>
 
| It was the end of an uncharacteristic flurry of activity at the mighty world headquarters of Jack Justice Investigations. Trixie was crossing the final i's and dotting the final t's when she looked up and realized Jack was nowhere to be found. And he'd taken their old snitch Freddie the Finger Hawthorne with him into the ether. Sometimes a gal's just got to look a gift horse in the mouth , and if she ever wants to see ol' square jaw sashay in the front door again, this is one of those times. But can she and her "new partner" keep away from each other's throats long enough to turn up her old one, or is this the beginning of life with No Justice?
 
| July 22, 2006
 
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| <center>10</center>
 
| <center>[[Hammer of Justice]]</center>
 
| Jack may not know much about art, but he knows what he likes... and what he doesn't. He doesn't much like Nick Franklin's looks, or his self-satisfied grin or his manicured fingernails. What he does like is a client that can afford a fat insurance policy and a couple of gumshoes to go with it. But can Jack and Trixie fit in with the arty set enough to protect Franklin's latest "discovery"? Where will they stand when the Hammer of Justice falls?
 
| August 5, 2006
 
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| <center>11</center>
 
| <center>[[Justice in Love and War]]</center>
 
| They say all's fair in love and war, and Jack and Trixie are about to put that to the test. When Jack finds a drowned rat of a piano player who's both struck by love and several dozen gangsters, love and war don't seem like such different concepts anymore. It's a mad charge into the lion's den, all in the name of romance. Even the hard-boiled have their soft spots.
 
| August 19, 2006
 
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| <center>12</center>
 
| <center>[[Justice and the Happy Ending]]</center>
 
| Every man has his ghosts. Old square-jaw didn't figure he had any right to expect to be the exception. But sometimes the past takes on flesh and looks you in the eye... and things can never be quite the same afterwards. When that moment comes for Jack and Trixie, will it bring down the whole house of cards, coffee and gaudy metaphors; or will it re-introduce those most contradictory concepts - Justice and the Happy Ending?
 
| September 2, 2006
 
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'''Season Two'''
 
'''Season Two'''
 
{{BJJ Two}}
 
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| <center>"[[The Purloined Format Caper]]"</center>
 
| Everybody's favorite hard-boiled duo return to Decoder Ring Theatre for another six all-new pulp mysteries!
 
   
Is Jack and Trixie's new client dragon lady or ingenue? In either case, can they get their paws on a ten thousand dollar marker held by a shady underworld type before her wedding march turns funeral dirge? If so, can they do it without strangling each other? And just for an extra kick, can they pull all of this off while paying loving tribute to one of the greatest detective shows in old-time radio?!? Find out as they crack the case of The Purloined Format Caper!
 
| December 30, 2006
 
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| <center>14</center>
 
| <center>[[The Trouble With Doubles]]</center>
 
| Jack's been slumming it in sunny Florida, enjoying the fresh air and sunshine all in the name of thirty-five dollars a day (plus expenses). Trixie's been in their palatial offices, enjoying the No Jack. Five days later they're flush, reunited and on a divorce case... all's right with the world, right?
 
 
Wrong. If everything's sunny, who's the crazy on the rooftop with the high-powered rifle, and why is he gunning for our gumshoes? Looks like they'll have to find out in a hurry... or they and the client Jack was standing in for are all about to learn... The Trouble With Doubles!
 
| January 13, 2007
 
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| <center>15</center>
 
| <center>[[How Much Is That Gumshoe..?]]</center>
 
| They say that every dog will have his day, and that might be true - but there are always consequences to be faced afterwards. Jack and Trixie could swear to that; after seventeen consecutive divorce cases they're starting to go a little squirrely. What they really need is an honest to goodness puzzle to walk through the door. A little murder, a little mayhem... maybe a nice kidnapping just to break up the monotony. Be careful what you wish for...
 
| January 27, 2007
 
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| <center>16</center>
 
| <center>[[The Beefsteak Botheration]]</center>
 
| To say that Jack and Trixie were surprised to get a call from Braithwaites, the biggest spit-and-polish detective agency in town, was putting it mildly. But to be invited to dine with the Gentleman Detective himself at his Club? That's just downright shocking - or at least very very suspicious. But if Big Larry Braithwaite thinks he can con Jack Justice into taking a train wreck of a case off his hands by stuffing our hero so full of prime rib that he can't see straight... well... yeah, that'll probably work.
 
| February 10, 2007
 
|-
 
| <center>17</center>
 
| <center>[[Palookaville Express]]</center>
 
| Jack and Trixie's new client is a truly impressive side of beef, if the girl detective does say so herself. A prizefighter on his way to the top, until some shady types decide it might be best if he were to lose his next match... or else. Now its up to our heroes to find out who's in back of the scheme and if this is a fight they can win... or will they all get their tickets punched for the Palookaville Express?
 
| February 24, 2007
 
|-
 
| <center>18</center>
 
| <center>[[Mixed Blessings]]</center>
 
| Friends can sometimes be a pain in the you-know-where, but you'd sure be sunk without 'em. When Freddie the Finger has a deal turn south on him, it's only natural that he turn to his ol' pal Jackie. But with the Girl Detective still miffed over an unpaid bill, things get a little complicated. To say nothing of the corpse, or the strong possibility of more just like it. Yes sir, friends can be real Mixed Blessings at times...
 
| March 10, 2007
 
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'''Season Three'''
 
'''Season Three'''
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| <center>19</center>
 
| <center>[[Payback]]</center>
 
| "...But to me, it was as if the city had emptied out at the word of Jack Justice's return. As well they might. As well they might..."
 
   
Yes, Jack Justice and Trixie Dixon, Girl Detective return for all-new hardboiled adventure and mystery. But with Jack out to settle a score, and Trixie trying to close the books on a murder that's still unsolved at least partly due to the efforts of our intrepid private eyes, it's anyone's guess if they'll both wind up on a slab, if Lt. Sabien'll run them both in, or if ol' square jaw will finally get some... Payback!
 
| December 15, 2007
 
|-
 
| <center>20</center>
 
| <center>[[Sabien's Law]]</center>
 
| "Law stands mute in the midst of arms" they say. Well, that proves one thing anyway; old man Cicero never met Police Lieutenant Victor Sabien. He'd never stood mute a day in his life. And with ol' Square Jaw and the Girl Detective working at cross purposes through his office... to say nothing of the dynamic duo of Sgt Nelson and Freddie the Finger Hawthorne underfoot... well, can you blame the poor guy?
 
| December 29, 2007
 
|-
 
| <center>21</center>
 
| <center>[[Trixie's Pet]]</center>
 
| It wouldn't be quite right to say that Trixie had a soft spot in her heart for old [[Button-Down Theo]] . But she had a soft spot in her head for him anyway. After all, anyone who can make private detecting seem dull as dishwater must have some hidden talents. But when Theo gets himself in hot water, will the Girl Detective be able to persuade ol' Square Jaw to intervene? And if so, just who exactly is footing the bill.
 
| January 12, 2008
 
|-
 
| <center>22</center>
 
| <center>[[The Reunion]]</center>
 
| It sounded like a nice, simple job. Two sisters, estranged long ago over a man who was long gone. An apology... a reunion... the restoration of family ties in a cold and cynical world... Yes sir, it all sounded too good to be true. But Jack and Trixie know when it comes to family, nothing is ever quite that simple.
 
| January 26, 2008
 
|-
 
| <center>23</center>
 
| <center>[[Much Ado About Norman]]</center>
 
| Everywhere you looked, there were goods to be gotten, and the getting often fell to Black Jack and Trixie. But there were consequences to be paid that often had nothing to do with the princely sum of thirty-five dollars a day, plus expenses. When it looks like their client may have stormed off half-cocked to do who-knows-what, it's up to our his-and-her shamuses... (shamuses?... Shami?... Whatever...) to reach deep for the ever-elusive happy ending.
 
| February 9, 2008
 
|-
 
| <center>24</center>
 
| <center>[[Dance, Justice, Dance]]</center>
 
| They say that music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. But like just about everything "they" say, truth is in the eye of the beholder. When Jack and Trixie spend a little time in the company of musicians, the experience is neither particularly charming or remotely soothing. But at least thirty-five dollars a day hath charms to soothe the savage landlord.
 
| February 23, 2008
 
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'''Season Three'''
 
 
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| <center>25</center>
 
| <center>[[A Midsummer Night's Noir]]</center>
 
| With the city in the grips of a heat wave, things are bound to get a little screwy. But no matter what air-conditioned hidey-hole a gumshoe ducks into, the place is lousy with crouching jade kittens and raincoated would-be girl detectives. It's bound to end badly for someone when Jack and Trixie start A Midsummer Night's Noir! - With special guest star [[Mary Jo Pehl]]!
 
| December 13, 2008
 
|-
 
| <center>26</center>
 
| <center>[[The Do-Nothing Detective]]</center>
 
| Private detecting isn't the sort of game where you can pick your battles. Jack and Trixie have done all kinds of things for all kinds of people, and most of the time you just hope for the best. But when a mystery man is perpared to drop a fat retainer in their laps to drop a client that they never had, it looks like our heroes have finally caught that nice soft case everybody always talks about. But it couldn't really be that simple... could it?
 
| December 27, 2008
 
|-
 
| <center>27</center>
 
| <center>[[The Family Jewels]]</center>
 
| The life of a detective has its ups and downs to be sure. Some might even argue that the downs held a pretty strong grip on the majority. But every so often a client like Midge Crocker opened the door and made it all worthwhile. A girl who was equal parts helpless doe-eyed bunny rabbit and hard, practiced liar. Now all Jack and Trixie had to do was figure out if the too-good to be true story was just that, or if they really were after... The Family Jewels
 
| January 10, 2008
 
|-
 
| <center>28</center>
 
| <center>[[No News is Good News]]</center>
 
| If there's one thing worse than not having one of your best sources at your beck and call, it's never having him again because he went and got dead. With a client yapping at their heels, a word from Mike Rogers, crime reporter for the Gazette, could make all the difference. But when the newshound pulls a disappearing act, Jack and Trixie can only hope that it's a case of... No News is Good News!
 
| January 24, 2009
 
|-
 
| <center>29</center>
 
| <center>[[The Problem of the Perplexing Pastiche]]</center>
 
| Two solid days of surveillance can take it out of anybody. Two nights without sleep and things don't make a lot of sense. But when Trixie Dixon, Girl Detective starts mixing her metaphors with Trixia Dixon, Lady Consulting Detective Extraordinaire... well that can't be good, can it?
 
| February 7, 2009
 
|-
 
| <center>30</center>
 
| <center>[[Now Who's The Dummy?]]</center>
 
| The life of a private detective is one that tends to keep a fella behind the times. After all, if you're sitting on top of the world, you rarely find yourself in need of a pair of low-rent gumshoes. Sometimes a little nostalgia isn't a bad thing... and sometimes the line between reality and anything-but is paper thin. Those are the days that leave a fella asking... Now Who's The Dummy?
 
| February 21, 2009
 
|-
 
| <center>31</center>
 
| <center>[[Requiem for an Elf]]</center>
 
| It is a season not to be trusted, my friends. It can dress up sadness as nostalgia, tackiness as whimsy and grey-green slush as "Christmas snow"... but it didn't seem like all the holiday spirit in the world was going to do the little man in the red suit and even redder puddle of his own blood much good, now was it?
 
| December 4, 2009
 
|-
 
| <center>32</center>
 
| <center>[[Stormy Weather]]</center>
 
| It has been remarked more than once that there's always a calm just before the storm. Certified meteorological phenomenon or old wives saw, it was still true as often as it wasn't. And if that storm was destined to wash away Marilou Arden, it looked like it just might take a certain pair of gumshoes with her.
 
| December 18, 2009
 
|-
 
| <center>33</center>
 
| <center>[[The Stopped Clock]]</center>
 
| When a snoop-and-peep that paid turned into a murder case that almost certainly didn't, it meant one thing: Jack suddenly got interested. For the Girl Detective, it's just one more reason to strangle the big lug... but even a clock that's stopped is right twice a day... isn't it?
 
| January 1, 2010
 
|-
 
| <center>34</center>
 
| <center>[[The Devil You Know]]</center>
 
| A client who seems a little too eager to pony up his retainer, the feds sniffing around like the wolf at the door and witnesses who keep blossoming into corpses. It's almost enough to make a certain police Lieutenant seem like a welcome sight. Almost.
 
| January 15, 2010
 
|-
 
| <center>35</center>
 
| <center>[[Small Mercies]]</center>
 
| A certain hack writer who shall remain Shakespeare is of the opinion that the quality of mercy is not strained. He obviously doesn't ride the bus past the stylish world headquarters of Justice and Dixon all that often, 'cause around here both the quality and quantity of mercy are strained beyond any reasonable breaking point, and old friends are no exception.
 
| January 29, 2010
 
|-
 
| <center>36</center>
 
| <center>[[Journeys End]]</center>
 
| They say a man meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it. Which means that whatever you do, and whatever the result might be, your fortune cookie can smile at you and say "see? I told you so." For some folks that road may lead to a destiny of great importance or heroic meaning. For others, it might lead to a face-down posture in a puddle somewhere. I suppose no one can tell. Except the cookie, and it ain't talkin'.
 
| February 13, 2010
 
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'''Season Four'''
 
'''Season Four'''
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'''Season Five'''
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{{BJJ Five}}
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'''Season Six'''
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{{BJJ Six}}
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'''Season Seven'''
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{{BJJ Seven}}
   
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'''Season Eight''' 
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| <center>[[Hush Money]]</center>
 
| When everybody's favorite junior boy detective drops by, its usually good for a twist of a certain tail, and our Square-Jawed hero kind of enjoys that, kind of like a mean kid who pulls the wings off flies. But even a bird-dog job courtesy of the Gentleman Detective is tough to smile at when it comes wrapped in... '''Hush Money!'''
 
| November 30, 2010
 
|-
 
| <center>38</center>
 
| <center>[[Auld Lang Syne]]</center>
 
| There are few things that cry out for introspection quite like the passing of one year into the next. A time when the rustle of lost illusions crackles underfoot, like a handful of dead leaves in the wind. When past, present and future come together for a single moment to blow a raspberry at you in the shaving mirror. A time when even the handful of thing you might have been sure of shift underfoot, and send you sliding down the slipperly slope to nowhere in particular. And when that moment comes, even the most hard-boiled of gumshoes can spare a moment for... '''Auld Lang Syne'''
 
| December 14, 2010
 
|-
 
| <center>39</center>
 
| <center>[[Cops and Robbers]]</center>
 
|They say that there are no small parts, my friends, only small actors. I've never been entirely clear on exactly what that means, or if the folks that coined the phrase intended it to be as insulting as it is. But one thing is for sure, those thin character sketches that populate the margins are usually kept there for a reason. But when left to their own devices, they tend to play familiar games. Games like... '''Cops and Robbers!'''
 
| December 31, 2010
 
|-
 
| <center>40</center>
 
| <center>[[The Albatross]]</center>
 
|"The one that got away" is a fine kind of tale for some. Fishermen, for example, seem to thrive on the subject. But in the detective business, where things seem to exist in a perpetually unfinished state, there are those cases that just won't stay in the drawer. The ones that never sat quite right. If only you had been a little stronger, a little smarter.... and sometimes they can weigh a man down, threaten to drag him under as they hang about his neck. It's sink or swim time, and who will win, the flatfoot or... '''The Albatross?'''
 
| January 14, 2011
 
|-
 
| <center>41</center>
 
| <center>[[Man's Best Friend]]</center>
 
|There is always more than one side to every story. And when you're dealing with a newspaper magnate, a missing heiress, a kidnapping with no ransom and an angry fishmonger, sometimes there are more sides than story. No simple matter for your average gumshoe, but just another day at the office for... '''Man's Best Friend.'''
 
| January 31, 2011
 
|-
 
| <center>42</center>
 
| <center>[[The Sky's The Limit]]</center>
 
|They say that if a person is lucky at cards, it stands to follow that they must also be unlucky at love. But it doesn't take much research to prove that it's possible to be lousy at both. The stakes are in the story - see your two bickering heirs and raise you one missing will - and around this table '''The Sky's The Limit!'''
 
| February 14, 2011
 
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== References ==
 
== References ==

Latest revision as of 15:11, 17 April 2014

This is a list of the current episodes of the on-going radio drama, Black Jack Justice, by Decoder Ring Theater. The episodes are divided by season and listed by the release date.

Episode list[]

Season One

Black Jack Justice Season One BJJ
Justice Served Cold Justice for SomeJustice Is Blind
Justice DelayedJustice IncorporatedJustice's Holiday
Justice Be DoneJustice and the DelugeNo Justice
Hammer of JusticeJustice in Love and WarJustice and the Happy Ending


Season Two

Black Jack Justice Season Two BJJ
The Purloined Format Caper The Trouble With DoublesHow Much Is That Gumshoe..?
The Beefsteak BotherationPalookaville ExpressMixed Blessings


Season Three

Black Jack Justice Season Three BJJ
The Purloined Format Caper Sabien's LawTrixie's Pet
The ReunionMuch Ado About NormanDance, Justice, Dance


Season Four

Black Jack Justice Season Four BJJ
A Midsummer Night's Noir The Do-Nothing DetectiveThe Family Jewels
No News is Good NewsThe Problem of the Perplexing PasticheNow Who's The Dummy?


Season Five

Black Jack Justice Season Five BJJ
Requiem for an Elf Stormy WeatherThe Stopped Clock
The Devil You KnowSmall MerciesJourneys End


Season Six

Black Jack Justice Season Six BJJ
Hush Money Auld Lang SyneCops and Robbers
The AlbatrossMan's Best FriendThe Sky's The Limit


Season Seven

Black Jack Justice Season Seven BJJ
Mad Dogs and Ambulance Chasers Some Kinda LuckyThe Score
A Simple Case of Black and WhiteTo The Manor BornThe Mark Two Caper


Season Eight 

Black Jack Justice Season Eight BJJ
Jawbone of an Asp Two is Too ManyThose Who Wait
The More Things ChangeThe Late Mr. JusticeThe Empty Desk


References[]