With a new introduction by award-winning British crime novelist Martin Edwards, author of the Lake District Mysteries. Written in 1945, The Red Right Hand is considered to be a classic of the American mystery genre. Unique and brilliant, and not to be missed by mystery fans. There was a Little Man - Who Got Away But how? He killed St. Erme. But what did he do with St. Erme's right hand? St. Erme had a right hand, that much is indisputable. And it must be found. These are the two most essential questions in the sinister problem that confronts me - the problem I must find an answer to before the killer strikes me down too. With the answer to either or both of those questions the police would have the ugly red-eyed killer stopped. Meanwhile the problem had both the police and Dr. Riddle stopped... Views: 31
Erotica/Fantasy. 25820 words long. Views: 31
An outrageous trio of novellas that bizarrely and brilliantly twists the Victorian era out of shape, by a master of steampunk alternate history Welcome to the world of steampunk, a nineteenth century outrageously reconfigured through weird science. With his magnificent trilogy, acclaimed author Paul Di Filippo demonstrates how this unique subgenre of science fiction is done to perfection—reinventing a mannered age of corsets and industrial revolution with odd technologies born of a truly twisted imagination. In “Victoria,” the inexplicable disappearance of the British monarch-to-be prompts a scientist to place a human-lizard hybrid clone on the throne during the search for the missing royal. But the doppelgänger queen comes with a most troubling flaw: an insatiable sexual appetite. The somewhat Lovecraftian “Hottentots” chronicles the very unusual adventure of Swiss naturalist and confirmed bigot Louis Agassiz as his determined search for a rather grisly fetish plunges him into a world of black magic and monsters. Finally, in “Walt and Emily,” the hitherto secret and quite steamy love affair between Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman is revealed in all its sensuous glory—as are their subsequent interdimensional travels aboard a singular ship that transcends the boundaries of time and reality. Ingenious, hilarious, ribald, and utterly remarkable, Di Filippo’s The Steampunk Trilogy is a one-of-a-kind literary journey to destinations at once strangely familiar and profoundly strange.Amazon.com ReviewQueen Victoria as a trollop-in-training whose newt-human clone serves as stand-in during Victoria's trysts? Walt Whitman as lusty seducer of an only partly reticent Emily Dickinson who loses the "Keys to the Inner Chambers of her Heart" to him? This fine and funny madness is "steampunk," a branch of cyberpunk fiction that locates itself in historical venues rather than in the future. Paul Di Filippo has certainly done his homework: the settings as well as the language emulate the times and, in Dickinson's and Whitman's cases, their poetic language, which asserts itself into their conversational dialogue and thoughts at most unusual but appropriate moments. Dickinson's "Universe Entire" is disrupted by a naked Whitman bathing in her rain barrel and singing his "body electric." But will Dickinson's "White Election" remain intact? From Publishers WeeklyThe term "steampunk" has come to intimate a subgenre of work set in a fantastic 19th century characterized by the inhumanity wrought by bogus science and a fanatical embrace of scientific method. Di Filippo's first book is a collection of three novellas that jumbles science and pseudoscience into an interesting, if not always completely successful, melange. The narratives are united not only by their reliance on the occult?mysticism dominates "Walt and Emily" while Lovecraft's monsters appear in the previously published "Hottentots"?but also by their focus on female sexuality. "Victoria" replaces the Queen of England with a licentious salamander, while "Walt and Emily" features a robust poetic encounter between Ms. Dickinson and Mr. Whitman. Even the weakest of the pieces here?"Hottentots," in which nothing is learned while much credulity is stretched?features amusing faux-Victorian prose worthy of Anne Rice ("Like a Maine sawmill, like an asthmatic platypus... like a Michigan beaver... uneasily winter-dreaming of Ojibway hunters led by a wild Chief Snapping Turtle, Mister Dogberry roughly rasped and snorted through the night, making it nigh impossible for Agassiz to get any rest") and enough "scientific" pasquinades to satisfy the Luddite in anyone. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 31
The beautiful Princess Ileana is virtually ruler of Zokala because her father the King, has been in a coma for over six months.Enjoying the freedom her fathers illness allows her, she is shaken when the Prime Minister informs her that a large number of brigands under the leadership of General Vladilas have entered the country uninvited and are camping in the mountains.To her horror the Princess discovers that the Zokalan Army and its aged Generals have no intelligence of this potential threat, and no strategy to protect their people.A fearless rider and experienced mountain climber, Ileana sets off to see if she can spy on the camp and find out what the brigands are doing. With only one mountain guide to protect her, she bravely determines to discover whether the peaceful land of Zokala is under threat.To her dismay her worst fears are confirmed when she finds that the valley is filled with the latest and most up-to-date guns and weapons of war. Convinced that the... Views: 31
What happened to Beatrice and Benedick?Beatrice and Claudia never thought they would see Benedick and Hiro ever again, not that they wanted to. But when the business opportunity of a lifetime hinges on Ben and Hiro's work, they find themselves head over heels and crashing into the boys again. But why did they ever have to be apart in the first place?Set in Washington DC, this book is a modern adaptation of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Views: 31
An apocalyptic, adventure featuring a woman struggling, to find her husband and son, dead or alive, among successive natural disasters. Views: 31
It's the turbulent sixties and young Nate Rubin has problems. For one thing he’s a virgin, and for another he's a drunk, and for still another he’s in love with forbidden fruit. All of which makes you wonder: Will he ever get laid? Will he ever get sober? Will he ever get the girl? Also, will he ever write that damn novel, the one about a Jewish shikker in love with a black shikseh? Views: 31
Daynel
has always chafed at the role she is expected to play as the princess of the
Northern Kingdom, preferring to train as a warrior like her brothers, and she
is far from prepared to meekly submit when she learns that she is to be given
in marriage to the prince of the Southern Kingdom. Her unwillingness to be a
footstool for an arrogant prince quickly becomes the least of her worries,
however, when a priestess of the ancient dragon gods informs Daynel that her
betrothed has dark and terrible designs for her and for the world… and that
only she can save her people.
Forced
to flee for her life, Daynel discovers that the gods have plans for her and for
the powerful magic she suddenly finds herself capable of wielding. Defying the
will of the gods can have painful consequences, and after Daynel encounters a
huge, fearsome warrior by the name of Draiken, the feisty princess soon learns
that those consequences can include a long, hard, bare bottom spanking… and
that is only the beginning.
Draiken
knows full well that with every passing day the forces of darkness grow
stronger and Daynel has not yet been taught to wield her newfound powers
properly. There is no time to lose and Draiken is more than willing to do
whatever must be done to train Daynel, whether she likes it or not, even if
that means she spends every waking moment with blushing cheeks and a sore
bottom.
Publisher’s
Note: Dare to Defy is an erotic novel
that includes both consensual and non-consensual spankings, anal play, graphic
sexual scenes, exhibitionism, elements of BDSM, and more. If such material
offends you, please don’t buy this book.
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Found face down in a puddle of blood, Sidney Pratt is rushed to the hospital, where doctors diagnose cerebral hemorrhage as the culprit. Comatose, Sidney enters the realm of white light and takes a mysterious journey within it, where he questions his mortality. He meets the dead face to face and soon, the events of his life are played out, but his untold memory of a boy's voice unravels the team's next case...that of The Listener. Views: 31
