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William Rawles Weeks is a very special kind of suspense writer. To an extraordinary gift for words, he adds personal experience in Army Intelligence. In this chilling novel, he takes us into the nightmarishly real world of constant tension where a man has to stake his own life and the reputation of his country on the swiftness and accuracy of his own solitary decisions.

When did the FBI as we know it have its beginning? What are its functions? How does the FBI track down bank robbers, kidnappers, spies, and saboteurs whose names and faces are unknown? What can a young man do to become an agent of the FBI?The answers to these and many other questions are presented in a briskly written account that is based on information obtained from men of the FBI.The story moves quickly as we accompany a young lawyer who is studying to become a G-man. His training period is difficult, with a great number of subjects to be learned. We understand the reasons for this variety as we watch the unraveling of some famous cases. FBI agents track down notorious kidnappers of the '30s. They locate Nazi saboteurs and spies who attempted to operate in the United States during World War II. They bring about the arrest of a traitor, Harry Gold.These and other dramatic cases are shown to be part of the everyday work of John Edgar Hoover and his 6,000 agents. It is a story that touches the life of every reader, for at this moment the FBI is hard at work protecting you, your family, and your country from the criminal acts of lawless men.

"I was told the creation of a Holmesian Chronology is practically a rite of passage. I was told once you have managed to make sense of the sixty stories you emerge a rookie no more. I was told it is a task that improves you and your understanding of The Canon. "I'm not so sure…."Too many chronologists resorted to claiming either Watson lied, or could not read his own notes. Such ideas are scandalous. I wanted a chronology built upon the idea of Watson's words as facts. Since I could not ¿nd one, I created one." -Paul Thomas Miller

The genesis of this book comes from the author's work in editing a technical journal on steel and engineering. He observed two significant facts: 1. Steel experts and metallurgists generally are convinced that what they know is common knowledge to everyone (not true); and 2. The people who buy, sell, study, manipulate, and in short have to do with steel thirst for an insight into steel and its structure because they need this insight in their jobs and do not find it easy to come by (true). This book is designed to address both of these issues.

Her name was Vera Mae, and she had been around these dusty tank towns too long-working the two-bit rodeos and cozying up to suckers, like this fat tourist in the bar.Oh God, she thought, I can con him and ditch him by nine-thirty, but what then? Sit in a hotel room. Get drunk and pass out. I'll be an old bag before I'm thirty.That was Vera Mae: fed up and ripe for trouble, when a lean ex-bronc rider named Lonnie drifted in from the desert...

When Mark Kingsbury was a baby, his father died of smallpox and his mother a little later, probably from over-work and worry over trying to raise her tiny son in the wilderness. Mark was taken in by Wash Higgins and his kind wife and was raised as their son in a clearing known as the Seneca Basin, a little settlement on the Seneca River somewhere between Utica and Rochester. Mark was about fourteen, full of high spirits and a longing for adventure when talk began about the coming of the Big Ditch, as the proposed Erie Canal was called. The Ditch, it was rumored, would come straight through Seneca Basin, in fact would pass the Higgins's door. Mark's one driving ambition was to establish his true identity, to find his grandfather whom he was sure he would like, provided they could meet. Perhaps this meeting would happen at the water parade for the grand opening of the Erie Canal...

The third in Bramah's Kai Lung series of fantasy novels. Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, like the others in the series consists of thinly connected stories related by Kai Lung, concerning the adventures of the storyteller and his lady love Hwa-Mei versus the wicked but ever-smooth Mandarin Shan Tien and his despicable accomplice Ming-Shu. Kai Lung's adventures are related with humor and irony, his shrewdness and wisdom conveyed in euphemisms, paradoxes and parables. Bramah's droll writing style went a long way toward making the Kai Lung series so popular.

KISSES OF DEATH The first night with her led to a file of blackmail photographs worth a fortune. KISSES OF DEATH The second night with her led to danger, violence, and sudden death. KISSES OF DEATH The third night with her led to the one mistake no private eye should ever make... not even Peter Chambers!

He was of that special breed that courts death at terrifying speed, drugged with the glory of the big risk the way some men drug themselves on women. He was Richard Delgard, sports-car racer, and he was in San Gregorio to try for a gran prèmio against Europe's most reckless-and greatest-drivers. Death was in San Gregorio too...

I had just begun taking off my jacket when the door quietly opened and two men slipped swiftly into the room.One was Frankie. The other I was seeing for the first time and not liking what I saw. Both were armed. Frankie had changed his toy for a mansized .38, which he held in his gloved right hand.No one spoke a word. The stranger tilted his gun toward the center of my face. Frankie swung his at the girl on the bed, planted his feet solidly, and fired five times into her body.Frankie dropped the .38 to the floor and the two of them backed out of the room. The door was quietly closed.I walked over quickly, crouched down, looked at the gun.It was mine.

Blitz was no ordinary horse. He had within him a quality of greatness which gave him the power to give his best-and more-whenever it was needed.Carefully trained and well cared for, he soon became the most talked about fire horse in Drumlin: fast and sure and first at almost every fire.Then a fearful accident injured both Blitz and his driver, and Blitz was sold to a cruel master and needed all of his courage and strength to live through the next few years.The story of how he is saved by the love and care of a boy, and of how he in turn is able to save a child's life, makes a dramatic and moving book in the old tradition. There are happy times and sad times, and a warmth in the telling that will satisfy anyone who loves a good horse story.

Den Milnan, a Tecton Donor, accompanies his cousin, channel Rital Madz, to an experimental Sime Center in the town of Clear Springs, deep in hostile Gen Territory. Rital plans to offer selyn technology to the Gens in trade for selyn, the energy that only Gens can produce. Selyn is the fuel that could power a new revival of civilization, as fossil fuels did for humanity of the 19th and 20th centuries.Den Milnan dreams of turning his horse-and-buggy existence into a world of rapid transportation with his design for heavier than air flight.In Clear Springs, an implacable enemy awaits them, determined to stop selyn collection by fanning old fears of killer Simes. Unless Den can find a way to calm those fears, his dream of powered flight will never be realized.

"The 27th issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features new and classic mystery tales!FEATURES: From Watson's Notebooks, by John H Watson, M D Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha HudsonNON FICTION: Screen of the Crime, by Kim Newman Carnivory, Darwin, and Doyle, by O'Neill Curatolo "Someday the Truth Will Come Out", by Chris Chan Dr. Watson and True Facts, by Bruce Harris FICTION The Red-Faced League, by Hal Charles Such Good Friends, by Dianne Neral Ell The Strange Disappearance of the Talking Horse, by Ron Goulart A Death in Baltimore, by Arjay Lewis Jewels in the Sun, by Laird Long The Unexpected, by J.P. Seewald "Lease With Option to Buy", by Ellen Wight The Adventure of Silver Blaze, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"

The Industrial College of the Armed Forces was established to prepare selected officers of the Armed Forces, both Regular and Reserve, and civilian executives for important managerial positions in time of emergency. Instruction is provided in three forms: (1) resident, (2) correspondence, and (3) traveling lecture teams. The base for all three types of instruction is the same.

Paris-based private investigator Pete Sawyer is hired to find out what happened to a girl who was kidnapped ten years before. When Pete starts digging, he finds more than expected -- including a Neo Nazi movement!

It was Texas Ranger Walt Slade's strangest mission: arrest the "dead man" who had suddenly come back to life -- and become the power behind a killer gang terrorizing the border!In this desperate, action-packed manhunt, Slade found himself playing the deadliest hand Fate had ever dealt him. A classic western!

The action of the story all takes place in New York, beneath the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. There, in an odd little shop with an extensive underground connection, once used to help escaping slaves, old Mr. Crabbe conducts his peculiar and illicit business, greatly helped by Jeremiad "Miad" Blake. This business of old Crabbe's-and the results it brings about-propel the hero to extraordinary lengths."On the whole, a fairly entertaining narrative. New York in the period immediately following the close of the Civil War is interestingly depicted, and the determined Miad Blake proves a likable and efficient hero." -- Literary Digest

It was a dream job. He was supposed to guard seven lovely bodies. The chore got even dreamier when he saw the lineup, which included a red-haired nymphomaniac; a hot-blooded, black-haired beauty with curves that didn't stopl and a tall Swedish Amazon that was anytihng but an iceberg. But the girls weren't dreams, they were real and solid and very feminine.Trouble was, one of the girls was about to be killed, and Christopher Sly didn't know which one. And one of the others was planning on doing the killing, and he didn't know that one, either. Then the dream turned into a nightmare when the killer decided to add another target -- Christopher Sly himself!

It was broad daylight in fashionable Beverly Hills when Jim Foraker came upon the still-warm body of the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. She had been brutally murdered. The police lost no time in pinning the killing on Jim himself.Here was a spot that made Jim's combat experiences in the Pacific look simple in comparison. He knew if he didn't find the fiendish killer, he would go up for the crime himself!

IT'S HER FAULTDetective Frank Vandegraf isn't sure how serious to regard the claim of an eccentric university professor that his wife is trying to kill him, especially when a relative insists that she's gone into hiding because the husband has actually threatened to kill his wife. When the professor turns up murdered shortly thereafter, with a mysterious note lying on his chest that says 'IT'S HER FAULT', Frank redoubles his efforts to locate the missing wife, his prime suspect. But when he does, the case takes a really bizarre turn…THE OTHER FRANKWhen Frank Vandegraf hears of the unexpected death of his ex-wife, he travels to the tiny rural town of Easton to face the demons of his past. But it's no respite from the challenging urban crimes of his regular job. No sooner has he arrived than two bizarre, violent deaths occur, and he feels irresistibly drawn to help unravel a web of mystery and intrigue. However, he's out of his jurisdiction, obstructed by officials, and amidst folk hiding their own secrets...

A local woman, well-liked and seemingly having no obvious problems, suddenly takes on a new identity and goes on the run to another town.Meanwhile, Cathcart's long-term and respected District Attorney, Turner Redland, is being threatened with blackmail for no discernible reason.Defense Attorney Gail Brevard, along with her husband and law partner, Conrad Osterwitz, are drawn into the net. When a local con artist and possible witness turns up dead of suspicious causes, there are ample suspects for the crime.Will Gail be able to make sense of it all in order to save the innocent and bring the guilty to justice? Only time will tell…and now time is running out…for all of them.

The Weirdbook Annual returns featuring a Cthulhu theme. Storys abound featuring our squamish elder god! Full of great fantasy and horror tales! Included this time are:•The Shining Trapezohedron, by Robert M. Price•A Noble Endeavor, by Lucy A. Snyder•Ancient Astronauts, by Cynthia Ward•The Thing in the Pond, by John R. Fultz•Enter The Cobweb Queen, by Adrian Cole•Tricks No Treats, by Paul Dale Anderson•Ronnie and the River, by Christian Riley•Cellar Dweller, by Franklyn Searight•Yellow Labeled VHS Tape, by R.C. Mulhare•Tuama, by L.F. Falconer•Mercy Holds No Measure, by Kenneth Bykerk•Treacherous Memory, by Glynn Owen Barrass•The Hutchison Boy, by Darrell Schweitzer•Dolmen of The Moon, by Deuce Richardson•Lovecraftian Limerick, by Andrew J. Wilson•A Wizard's Daughter, by Ann K. Schwader•The Shadow of Azathoth is your Galaxy, by DB Spitzer•Ascend , by Mark A. Mihalko•The Solace of the Farther Moon, by Allan Rozinski•The Stars Are Always Right, by Charles Lovecraft•Daemonic Nathicana, by K.A. Opperman•Asenath, by Ashley Dioses•The Book of Eibon/Le Livre D'eibon, trans. by Frederick J. Mayer

The history of early Australian science fiction has been well chronicled by literary historians. In searching for a synthesis of colonial Australian science fiction, they generally identify three genres into which most Australian science fiction of the period can be placed: lost civilisation novels, (including Lemurian and utopian novels); historical fantasies, which re-imagined Australia's colonial past (particularly the history of Australian exploration); and future invasion or future political novels (which dramatized fears of racial invasion or social chaos resulting from political upheaval or natural disasters like plague).In the short form, early Australian science fiction is more heterogeneous. There were more outlets for the short form and more short stories were published, so we would expect a wider range of themes and subject matter, and indeed this is the case. The stories collected here indicate something of the richness and variety of science fiction written by Australian authors up the mid-1930s. We see some of the themes mentioned above, for example the lost civilisation story (Phil Collas's "The Inner Domain") and the future invasion story (Ernest Favenc's "What the Rats Brought"), but they offer something new and original, while other stories are built on the consequences of technological discoveries or advancements, for example Ernest Favenc's "The Land of the Unseen," H.B. Marriott Watson's "The Instrument," and Beatrice Grimshaw's "Lost Wings."

Book adaptation of Shirley Tmple's original film adaptation of Edward Peple's 1911 story of a little girl caught up in the American Civil War. Originally published as "The Shirley Temple Edition," with illustrations from the movie.

Penny Parker starred in a series of 17 books written by Mildred A. Wirt Benson and published from 1939 through 1947. Penny was a high school sleuth who also occasionally moonlighted as a reporter for her father's newspaper. Benson favored Penny Parker over all the other books she wrote, including Nancy Drew. Her obituary quoted her as saying, "I always thought Penny Parker was a better Nancy Drew than Nancy is," Mrs. Benson said in 1993.

"Quasi-supernaturalism creeps into a few of [Grant's] novels, especially Kalee's Shrine (1886)...about the Thuggee cult and Mesmerism." -- Encyclopedia of Fantasy