Find It Online: The Complete Guide to Online Research, 3rd Edition. By Alan Schlein (with tips from Don Ray)

Step 1: Let your fingers do the surfing. Veteran investigative journalist Don Ray worked closely with online information guru Alan Schlein to help create this internationally acclaimed guide to finding anything online. It's where your investigation should begin. Without it, you'll be dead in the water in the Sea of Cyberspace. After you've used this tool, it's time to leave the keyboard behind and follow the treasure map you discovered online.

$19.95

 Checking Out Lawyers (or anybody else). By Don Ray

Step 2: Pull the public record files. Find It Online helped you find reference to the specific public records files and documents available to anyone to view - free of charge - at government offices ranging from City Hall to the U.S. Courthouse. Checking Out Lawyers is really a book about checking out anybody!. It explains which public records are available at each agency and what nuggets of information gold you're likely to find there. Now it's time to get copies of the right files start extracting the most valuable elements.

$15.95

 Diggin' Up Gold on the Old Paper Trail: A workbook for investigatin' folks. By Don Ray

Step 3: Some documents are like fool's gold. Others hide hidden veins of information. This workbook teaches you how to assay a document for its hidden treasures and shows you how to harvest the information. And while you're diggin' up the gold, you'll learn how to find maps to even greater treasures - other documents and information found only in the minds and memories of other people. Includes celebrity death certificates and the "O.J. Simpson Papers."

$19.95

 No Questions Asked! An investigative reporter's guide to perfect interviews. By Don Ray

Step 4: Retrieve the treasures of the human mind. All of the information in databases, public record documents, books and personal accounts came from living, breathing human beings. Steps 1-3 taught you how to identify and locate the people behind the data - but nowhere is it written that they have to talk to you. This book will help you turn on the tap of information without asking a single question. This is where gold turns to platinum.

$14.95

 Say it in writing, As smooth as silk! What every genius, dropout, scholar, writer, bureaucrat or just plain average Joe should know about writing for the ear. By Don Ray

Step 5: Make your treasures shine. Now that you have the precious information, why not make it something other people will appreciate. Whether it's an investigative report, a news story, a journal or a novel, this book offers five simple steps to making your writing compelling, intriguing, interesting and, most importantly, fun to read.

$9.95

 Don Ray's Privacy Tips: Safeguard your privacy with tips from the master of investigation.

Step 6: Protect yourself from others who know these secrets. By now, you've learned that there's more information out there about people than you've ever imagined. This fun-to-read book offers handy suggestions you can use to make yourself less vulnerable.

$11.95