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With a beautiful country guesthouse for background, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding draws the reader into the sinister web of fear and terror that holds the occupants of the house in its grasp. Van Cleef, the detective, becomes one of the central characters in a charming romance which affords him some relief from the horrible chain of events which follows.

Bill Brown is a savvy, mostly honest L. A. cop who flees to Dallas after an investigation into corruption targets some of his off-duty organized crime gambling buddies. When his life is threatened to keep him quiet, Bill buys a bus ticket, and stumbles onto a kidnapping/murder plot of a young girl in Dallas. He offers his services to the victim's wealthy family, as they seek revenge on the bumbling kidnappers.

12 exciting stories featuring the famous Chinese master sleuth, James Lee Wong! LONG CHANCE TEN BELLS A RAY OF LIGHT THE BELL FROM CHINA THE FEAST OF KALI JAYBIRD'S CHANCE NO WITNESSES THREE WORDS SCORNED WOMAN SEVEN OF SPADES THE THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLAR BOMB MEDIUM WELL DONE

Over the course of three years, Henry David Thoreau made three trips into the widely unexplored woods of Maine, taking notes constantly, acutely observing the rivers, the lakes, the mountains, the animals, and stars, he also told of nights sitting by campfires, of meeting men who communicated by writing on the trunks of trees. Here Thoreau captures a lesser known, wild side of America, while simultaneously revealing his own courageous spirit.

James Meredith, you have been convicted after a long and patient trial of the awful crime of wilful murder. With the verdict of the jury I am in complete agreement. There is little doubt, after hearing the evidence of the unfortunate lady to whom you were engaged, and whose evidence you attempted in the most brutal manner to refute, that, instigated by your jealousy, you shot Ferdinand Bulford.

Nobel Prize laureate Anatole France's The Revolt of the Angels, often considered his most profound novel, tells the story of Arcade, the guardian angel of Maurice d'Esparvieu, who falls in love and joins the revolutionary movement of angels.Originally published in 1914.

First published in England in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel." One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history, it has become a synonym for obscenity.

ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE!" D'Artagnan and his three pals follow a course of swashbuckling intrigue and adventure in 17th-centry France. The Three Musketeers is a tale for all time. Heroic young d'Artagnan and his noble compatriots, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis versus Cardinal Richelieu, and the wicked woman, Lady de Winter.

Kerwhop! 11 classic Willie Klump Tales! BIRD CAGEY: A Fowl in the Hand May Be Worth Two in the Hedge, But Willie Klump Goes After Two Jailbirds with One Grindstone! DUMB IN THE WORD FOR WILLIE: The President of the Hawkeye Detective Agency Swings into Action Against the Killer Diller Gang! ALIBI BYE: When Lady Luck Knocks On Willie Klump's Door, the Ingrate Detective Checks Up On Her Fingerprints. DOG COLLARED: When Willie Sees Red and Battles...

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Among h...

New affordable edition of the first collected stories of Trent Zelazny. Includes the original twenty-four dark, quirky, eccentric tales published in 2009, plus two newly added yarns excavated from Zelazny's reprehensible vault. These stories will surprise you, entertain you, possibly upset or offend you at times, and will take you places you've never been before. Rather than trying to make a career of covering the same ground his father had...

Originally published in 1899, Pharos, the Egyptian is a thriller with romance and supernaturalism. A very sinister old man, Pharos, proves to be Ptahmes, a mummy who has survived through the centuries with full magical powers. "Mr. Boothby never allows the interest of their doings to drop from first page to last, and he tells his tale in a pleasant, brisk fashion that carries the reader along, and is as convincing a vehicle as could be chos...

Sax Rohmer had written a mystical play titled Wulfheim in the 1920s. In 1950, he rewrote and expanded the play into the novel you now hold in your hands.

Many brief tales combine into a micro-saga of the Twins, Chelsea and Clarence. A deceptively short book full of thoughtful fun! Julesworks are (in this instance) PQ Ribber and Stephen Jules Rubin, who somehow combine forces despite the implausibility of said collaboration, including this write-up. The characters were originally created in Portland, Oregon with Jules and Yvette Tourangeau, in a park, using small notebooks. Sister-less, Ju...

One day several years ago, when Mr. Lowes Dickinson's statement that he had found no conversation and-worse still-no conversationalists in America was fresh in our outraged minds, I happened to meet an English woman who had spent approximately the same amount of time in our country as had Mr. Lowes Dickinson. "What has been your experience?" I anxiously asked her. "Is it true that we only 'talk'? Can it really be that we never 'converse'?

Her veneer was big city...but one look and you knew that Toni Rassell's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders bare. Eyes deep-set, a girl with a gypsy look. So this was the girl I had risked my life to find. This was the girl who was going to lead me to a buried fortune in stolen loot.

Collected here are twenty-four dark, quirky, eccentric stories. Trent Zelazny will surprise you, entertain you, and take you places you've never been before. A new strong, confident voice has arrived. Zelazny could have chosen to make a career of covering the same ground that his father had already plowed. Instead he has chosen to strike out on his own and prove right out of the gate that he is his own man. Trent Zelazny is off and running....

Collected here are twenty-four dark, quirky, eccentric stories. Trent Zelazny will surprise you, entertain you, and take you places you've never been before. A new strong, confident voice has arrived. Zelazny could have chosen to make a career of covering the same ground that his father had already plowed. Instead he has chosen to strike out on his own and prove right out of the gate that he is his own man. Trent Zelazny is off and running....