extortion

After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.

Detective Chet Gecko and his associate, Natalie Attired, take a case tailing what they think is a cheating boyfriend but are instead led to a school mystery that involves blackmail and robots.

After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.

A bus filled with a track team of fifty people are held for a ransom of two million dollars.

Sixteen-year-old Dora travels to London to meet Sherlock Holmes, who might be her biological father, and ask his help for her cousin who is being blackmailed over some stolen letters, but although Holmes dies before she arrives, a handsome young detective comes to Dora's aid.

Famous radio talk-show host Nora Bridge calls upon her estranged daughter Ruby for help after being involved in a serious car accident, and is thrilled when Ruby agrees, not realizing her youngest daughter has taken on the job simply to gather material for a tell-all book that will destroy Nora's career.

Chronicles Carson Phillips' exploits as he blackmails his fellow senior classmates into contributing to a literary magazine he is publishing.

Detective Chet Gecko and his associate, Natalie Attired, take a case tailing what they think is a cheating boyfriend but are instead led to a school mystery that involves blackmail and robots.

Charles Schine, a steady man with a longtime job, a wife, and an ill child, finds his life spiraling out of control when he becomes involved with a married woman.

Famed film director James Jackson has fallen victim to a blackmailer who is demanding ten million dollars. Amateur sleuth Nancy Drew is on the scene to help her father's friend, and becomes the blackmailer's new target in the process.