This is the story of a lone telepath who has to stop an invasion of an intelligent virus from Venus which takes control of people's bodies. Views: 55
An election is held at the abbey of Crewe and the new lady abbess takes up her high office with implacable serenity.This is a satirical fantasy about ecclesiastical and other kinds of politics. The author has also written The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Girls of Slender Means. Views: 55
Everyone knew Linda as a charming girl.. it was an image her husband worked hard to maintain.. beneath the surface Linda was a neurotic alcoholic.. then she vanished without trace and the net closes in as everyone points the finger at John. Views: 54
A lieutenant’s rank belying his undistinguished naval career, Richard Delancey finds that his fluency in French lands him a secret mission, but to his chagrin, it goes awry. Views: 54
Far under the sea-floor Solino's submarine carries two American soldiers of fortune to startling adventure among the Vampire Heads of Apex. Views: 54
Short story published in Thrilling Wonder Stories (April 1939). The fourth, and only, spaceship to return from Mars holds an insane crew and a Martian "furball". Views: 54
Book DescriptionMacon Fallon had never needed much more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun. And he was counting on those things now, as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers into an abandoned mining town. But while Fallon prepared to pass the ghost town off as a gold mine in the making, a funny thing happened: a real-life community started to take shape in the town he's christened Red Horse, and a lovely, strong-minded woman started to take notice of one Macon Fallon. So when a band of vicious outlaws and a kid who fancied himself a gunslinger threatened to rip Red Horse apart, Fallon found himself caught in the one predicament he's never gambled on -- picking up a gun and laying down his life for a place he just might call home ... From the Paperback edition. Views: 54
“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later?Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes. Views: 54
Once a year, the small Wyoming town opened up its streets to strangers, and into the madness of drunken revelry rode Edge, determined to collect a debt. And when a trigger-happy lawman tried to push Edge back onto the trail, Edge set out to show the town what happened when he was pushed too far. Views: 54
Book DescriptionIt was no crime for a young cowboy to want to talk to a pretty girl, but that was what got Tom Lundy killed. The hard men of the Tumbling B, who had survived stampede and Kiowa lance to drive their herd up from Big Bend country, wanted to burn the town down. But Kate Lundy, the Tumbling B's owner, had a better plan. Calling on dozens of seasoned fighters, Kate aimed to strangle the town that lived off cowboy money but had no use for the Texans themselves. With her rugged foreman, Conn Dury, at her side, the proud and beautiful woman might just stand a chance. Because Conn Dury knows all about revenge--and in Kate's wild fight he's out to get some of his own.From the Paperback edition. Views: 54
WARNING! This book is not for the fainthearted. APACHE DEATH: Edge finds himself hold-up in Fort Rainbow, deep in the heart of Apache territory. With Cochise and his warriors on the warpath, Edge allies himself with an Englishman, a man who considers himself to be Edge's equal and who also holds the key to the whereabouts of a million dollars worth of gold bullion. The two men make plans to retrieve the gold, but things don’t always go according to plan … especially when the Apaches attack the town and fort, inflicting their special brand of suffering to soldiers and civilians alike. As the death toll rises and the brutal onslaught comes to a head, Edge will have to put his fate in the hands of a man called … Gatling! Views: 54
Claudia Milmont has lived most of her joyless life with her grandparents, though her mother enjoys the fringes of society in London. When Claudia’s Aunt Sophie dies, a whole new world opens up for her. Cantankerous Sophie has instructed that her diamonds be buried with her—and Claudia is determined to help her cousin retrieve them. But the charming Sir Hillary Thoreau, a nonesuch, is co-executor of Sophie’s will and he’s keeping a sharp eye out for any mischief—and for Claudia, too, it would seem. Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett Views: 54
