Like the hot seat fits a killer, that's how the frame fitted the kid. Then they found him hanged and knew it for murder. Which made a desperate assignment for Detective Sergeant Randall – who had to find out if he himself were the murderer! He backtracked down his own trail with vengeful Stella – with lovely Karis of the hot eyes – with Roxy, the hood, who lived by lust. But what waited Randall at the murder's end? An honest cop, or – the corpse next door?
When the Tyrant seizes power in the city of Lirith, capital of Kyrannon, his ambition for conquest and his need for the great horses of Fallowden create a vortex of conflict and powers. Into this the Raithes of Fallowden – Tisha the Wise and her daughter Cara, Lengalyon the hermit of the heights, and even the infant Ashraf, son of Shanah ni Raithe do Raithe – are drawn. Five Raithes survive the battle with the Tyrant's troopers. Each flees in a different direction and performs a different...
Adventure Tales showcases the best authors from the classic pulp magazines of the early to mid 20th Century. This volume highlights the work of Hugh B. Cave as the Featured Author, with two rare, previously unreprinted stories, plus fiction contributions by J. Allan Dunn, H. Bedford Jones, Harold Lamb, Vincent Starrett, H. de Vere Stacpoole, Saki (H.H. Munro), Johnston McCulley, Captain A.E. Dingle, Charles C. Young, John Kendrick Bangs, and F. Marion Crawford. Interview with Hugh B. Cave.
The murder of a sweet young woman is not an unusual occurance in the big city, but when the corpse herself proves so contradictory, stubbornly defying the police to catch her murderer, this becomes meat and bread to Assistant D.A. Jeremiah X. Gibson. Accompanied by his long-suffering sidekick, Mac, Gibby walks in on one murder – and out on five. Before the maelstrom finally subsides, Gibby and Mac have almost joined the roster of corpses that parade through this, their most ingenous case!
Meet Centurion Gaius Hesperian; a reflective and compassionate member of Emperor Nero’s palace guard with a knack for detective work. (He’s considered rather odd by his fellow officers because he doesn’t torture witnesses.) When Odysseus Memnon, a Greek-Egyptian shipping magnate, is found murdered in his Alexandrian mansion after annoucing his conversion to an evangelistic cult to which he plans to donate all of his worldly goods, it's up to Gaius Hesperian to solve the crime.
He was Karn, the savage of the sky-high trees. He was protector and defender of the princess Niamh, whose very city was lost in the mapless jungles of the world under the Green Star. But he was also an Earthling, whose helpless body lay in suspended animation in a guarded mansion in New England. It was his alien mind that drove Karn through perils that no other wold dare… <P> In the Green Star's Glow is a science fantasy novel in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Written by...
17-year-old Pete Dana runs a boat yard in Hidden Harbor with his father. It's a quiet New England town – until Jeffrey Fannin arrives. Fannin is reckless and plans to sell a line of red speed boats called Sea Sharks. When Pete makes this mistake of tying up his own boat at what should have been a public dock, it mysteriously comes loose and is almost lost, he suspects Fannin is to blame. And what is Fannin up to at the old factory? Something smells fishy to Pete…and it isn't the ocean!...
Written from the two opposing perspectives of Gabriel and Lucifer, War of Wings follows their paths and love stories as they face a violent war that leads to the fall of one-third of the angels from Heaven. Gabriel, the archangel, loves life, but there is one thing in Heaven that he cannot tolerate: perfection. Lucifer, God’s highest cherubim angel and “perfect image of beauty,” stands alone in the hierarchy leading praise, worship, music, and laughter in the hope that one day he will be...
Air Force wife Ellie Avery is so good at organizing she's turned pro. But when a fellow military wife turns up dead, Ellie tackles a different type of case–murder. . .Ellie Avery balances motherhood, marriage, and her own business–Everything in Its Place–with cheerful efficiency. A maestro of organization, she sees her life as an easy checklist that does not include the untimely death of Penny Follette.Unlike the police, Ellie isn't convinced Penny's death was suicide. But...
When Mattie Winston catches her husband Dr. David Winston receiving some very special loving care from R.N. Karen Owenby, she quits her job and moves out. Mattie's best friend Izzy offers her a place to stay and suggests she'd be a natural as deputy coroner. Now, instead of taking patients' pulses, Mattie's weighing their hearts and livers.But Mattie's first homicide call turns out to be for none other than Nurse Karen, and even though she saw her ex in a heated argument...