Nero Wolfe's last recorded case! Wolfe never works without a well-heeled client and a sizable fee, but when a bomb racks his brownstone, killing his favorite waiter from his favorite restaurant, the world's greatest gourmet takes it as a personal affront. What kind of unsavory killer commits murder within ten feet of a legendary detective? It's a question Wolfe will go to heroic lengths to answer. But even as he and Archie uncover an unappetizing brew of conspiracy and lies, the killer serves up a second helping of homicide and Wolfe is left to face a most unpalatable truth. "It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore." (New York Times Book Review) Views: 62
In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign Abel Lackland's children are grown up. Two of his sons have followed their father into medicine. The other, Jonah, now married to Lilith's daughter, has achieved his dream of a career on the stage. However, the reality of being an actor is harsher than he ever imagined - it is a daily struggle to provide for his wife and children. Suddenly something comes into their lives that drives a wedge between them. Views: 62
With an introduction by CARL HIAASEN JOHN D. MacDONALD ..".the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." --STEPHEN KING ..".a master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer."--MARY HIGGINS CLARK ..".a dominant influence on writers crafting the continuing series character."--SUE GRAFTON ..".my favorite novelist of all time."--DEAN KOONTZ ..".the consummate pro, a master storyteller and witty observer."--JONATHAN KELLERMAN ..".remains one of my idols."--DONALD WESTLAKE THE TRAVIS McGEE SERIES ..".one of the great sagas in American fiction."--ROBERT B. PARKER ..".what a joy that these timeless and treasured novels are available again."--ED McBAIN Views: 62
When their home burns down while their father is away, the four Fielding children, Carrie, Torn, Em and Michael are sent to live with their uncle and aunt. Unused to children, Uncle Rudolph decides to let them live at World's End, a ramshackle house which was once an inn. Free at last from interference from their relatives they begin to add to their already sizeable collection of animals - Carrie acquires a horse (John), finds a wounded dog in the hayloft and even tries to rescue a monkey from a terrible fate... This is the first book in the series about the extraordinary family who live at World's End. Views: 62
Sylvester, Duke of Salford, has exacting requirements for a bride. Then he meets Phoebe Marlow, a young lady with literary aspirations, and suddenly life becomes very complicated. She meets none of his criteria, and even worse, she has written a novel that is sweeping through the ton and causing all kinds of gossip... and he's the main character! Views: 62
Mark Liddon's debutante wife is in trouble, and he travels from Venezuela back home, then to Mexico, in the company of murderers, drug smugglers, gamblers and a variety of questionable people, to follow and save her. Is she worth it? Views: 62
From mighty Canopus, capital of the Federated Stars, to the outer fringes of our great galaxy, the Interstellar Patrol was on the watch. Rogue suns, marauding alien intelligences, man-made comets driven by their makers for the conquest of unsuspecting worlds, diabolical conspiracies hatched in the depths of unmapped nebulas — it was the business of the Patrol's mighty spaceships to guard against such cosmic dangers. CRASHING SUNS is the epic account of this future space legion, where volunteers from a thousand worlds man the mighty starcraft of a hundred thousand years to come. It's interplanetary adventure on the classic scale, by the master hand of Edmond Hamilton. Views: 62
Earthmen and Aleriona have met in space and neither side can afford to let the other get too strong. The Aleriona have captured the human outpost, New Europe, and claim that all the inhabitants were killed. The World Federation on Earth seems committed to peace at any price, but there are those, and ex-navy Captain Gunnar Heim is one of them, who know that appeasement will only lead to further Alerion encroachment, and he passionately believes that there must be a showdown now, before its too late.
The Star Fox is a novelization of three stories originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction : “Marque and Reprisal” (February, 1965), “Arsenal Port” (April, 1965), and “Admiralty” (June, 1965). “Marquee and Reprisal” was nominated for Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1966. Views: 62
Why did everybody step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment? It was a mystery Peter and Sherri had to solve. If they could live long enough! FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem Views: 62
Returning to Shadow Earth to investigate a threat against his life, Corwin discovers that the Jewel of Judgment has been stolen by his traitorous brother, Brand, who plans to use the enigmatic gem to reshape the universe. Views: 62
A woman battles to protect her ex-husband from a murder chargeThe phone rings just after twelve. Jenny Vleedam knows it cannot be anyone but Peter, and she tries to let it ring. He left her for another woman—a vicious trollop called Fiora—and Jenny has too much self-respect to let him kick her around anymore. But she answers anyway, and hears the words she has been longing for: Fiora has been shot. But as often as she has fantasized about something happening to the woman who stole her husband, now Jenny feels only fear—fear that the police might not believe Peter’s story that Fiora was the one holding the gun. Not knowing if the woman is dead or alive, Jenny rushes to Peter’s side. Guilty or innocent, they will never be apart again. Views: 62
