When an old friend shuffles off their mortal coil, Archie travels to New York for the funeral, and from there to the Merge, to do some work with his mentor, Winston.In a realm of waterless canals and upside-down pyramids, he patiently teaches royals how to open a portal to the ancient Crypt, and learns some more of the Merge's many secrets.But when a day trip to a beautiful cenote goes terrifyingly awry, it looks as if Archie's story might have come to the end of its line... Book seven of the Archibald Lox series by Darren Shan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cirque Du Freak and Lord Loss.This is the first of three books in VOLUME THREE - the final volume - of the series. PRAISE FOR ARCHIBALD LOX AND THE SINKHOLE TO HELL"Book 7 brings smiles, chuckles, gasps, burns and frustrations. Cirque Du Freak will always be my favorite Shan series, but Archibald Lox is certainly giving... Views: 182
Midge und Mike, zwei junge Künstler, haben ein romantisches Landhaus bezogen. Die magischen Kräfte, die von dieser Idylle ausgehen, schlagen in nacktes Grauen um, als Mitglieder einer seltsamen Sekte auftauchen. Views: 182
e-artnow presents to you a collection of the greatest mystery cases and puzzles for you to solve and relax with during Christmas and winter holidays:Agatha Christie:The Mysterious Affair at StylesThe Murder on the LinksThe Kidnapped Prime Minister The Million Dollar Bond Robbery The Secret AdversaryR. Austin Freeman:Dr. Thorndyke's CasesThe Adventures of Dr. ThorndykeDr. Thorndyke's CasebookArthur Conan Doyle:The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesThe Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesA Study in ScarletThe Sign of FourThe Hound of the BaskervillesThe Valley of FearA. E. W. Mason:At the Villa RoseThe Affair at the Semiramis HotelMary Roberts Rinehart:The Circular StaircaseThe Amazing Adventures of Letitia CarberryTish – The Chronicle of Her Escapades and ExcursionsMore TishEdgar Allan Poe:The Murders in the Rue MorgueThe Mystery of Marie RogêtThe Purloined LetterCharles Dickens:Hunted DownWilkie Collins:The MoonstoneThe Woman in WhiteThe Haunted HotelRobert... Views: 181
JOHNSTONE. KEEPING THE WEST WILD. Not every Western hero wears a white hat or a tin star. Most of them are just fighting to survive. Some of them can be liars, cheaters, and thieves. And then there's a couple of old-time robbers named Slash and Pecos . . . Two wanted outlaws. One hell of a story. After a lifetime of robbing banks and holding up trains, Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker are ready to call it quits—though not completely by choice. Sold out by their old gang, Slash and Pecos have to bust out of jail and pull one last job to finance their early retirement . . . The target is a rancher's payroll train. Catch is: the train is carrying a Gatling gun and twenty deputy US marshals who know they're coming. Caught and quickly sentenced to hang, their old enemy—the wheelchair-bound, bucket of mean, Marshal L.C. Bledsoe—shows up at the last minute to spare their lives. For a price. He'll let them... Views: 180
A man who is set up by police for a "justifiable homicide" declares war, and sets out to exterminate the entire one department that tried to murder him."When police are killing people at will, and the courts and the politicians and their own peers will not hold them into account, what is our recourse? Is war not the appropriate remedy?" --Randy GustinRandy Gustin lives in a town in Washington State where the police are out of control. They run roughshod over the citizens of Randy's town with impunity, and even have a highly questionable shooting or two to their credit. But unlike the other citizens who have learned to put up with it, Randy is taking political action to rein them in, and in doing so he has incurred their anger.That anger comes to a head one evening when an officer from this department does what many other cops have done in the past, and tries to set him up for a "justifiable homicide." But Randy fights back, and before he knows it, two cops are dead at his hands.He knows it was self-defense, but the trouble is that when you challenge authority in any fashion, let alone with a weapon, justifications don’t mean a lot. The same system that lets cops off the hook no matter what they do will pull out the stops to ensure that your life is as good as over. Randy considers that unfortunate fact and decides that rather than spend what remains of his life in a cage, he’s going to go out making a statement. Then he picks up a police radio and declares war on this department, a war that will end either when he is dead, or this entire one department has been exterminated, to serve as an example to other departments like it.Set against the backdrop of real shootings committed both by and against police, One Department is a novel about the convoluted and ever-escalating conflicts between citizen and cop, and tells a story of just how bad things could get. Views: 180
Meticulously restored text by renowned Howard scholar Paul Herman, this is the last in a ten-book definitive chronological collection of Robert E. Howard's stories that appeared in pulp magazines like the revered Weird Tales. Howard is the creator of the international icon, Conan the Cimmerian and considered the Godfather of Sword and Sorcery. Views: 179
Basil Copper - Solar Pons 14 - The Final CasesCover art by Les Edwards.Contents"The Adventures of The Haunted Rectory" [reworked from its first appearance in Uncollected Cases]"The Ignored Idols" [reworked from its first appearance in Secret Files]"The Adventure of the Horrified Heiress" [reworked from its first appearance in Secret Files]"The Adventure of the Baffled Baron" [first book appearance]"The Adventure of the Anguished Actor" [reworked from its first appearance in Secret Files]"The Adventure of the Persecuted Painter" - A Sherlock Holmes Case! Views: 178
Every sailorman grumbles about the sea, said the night-watchman, thoughtfully. It\'s human nature to grumble, and I s\'pose they keep on grumbling and sticking to it because there ain\'t much else they can do. There\'s not many shore-going berths that a sailorman is fit for, and those that they are—such as a night-watchman\'s, for instance—wants such a good character that there\'s few as are to equal it. Sometimes they get things to do ashore. I knew one man that took up butchering, and \'e did very well at it till the police took him up. Views: 178
