Detour if you dare into the dark alleys and twisted cul-de-sacs of the human heart. Brush shoulders with men whose eyes are as hard and cold as bullets—murderers, grifters, and hapless goofballs, who prey on the innocent and unsuspecting, often at their own peril. Against your better judgment, get up close and intimate with sizzling kiss-and-kill babes, and live to tell about it…or not! Eight hard-edged tales of criminals, killers, and their del ...
“My home is nowhere, as is yours,” the old Cajun woman said. “Bloodstone is a place to forget.” “Forget? Never,” Vanessa said. “We came from Bloodstone. We will return to it. Why prevent me from going where happiness waits for me?” “You do not belong at Bloodstone. It is dead, and if you return you too will be dead....” A crumbling castle, a haunted village–and a love that would fulfill her destiny. But first, she must overcome…The Curse of Bloo ...
"Charlie Chan Carries On" – the 1931 Fox motion picture starring Warner Oland as Chan – is now considered a «lost» film (the original film materials were destroyed in a vault fire.) Unless a copy surfaces in some remote corner of the world, as happened with «Charlie Chan in Paris,» this original screenplay is the closest Chan fans will come to seeing the original film. (There is also a Portuguese-language version called «Eran Trece» [There ...
Life's a picnic for Paisley Sterling – until a tornado cuts a swath through the charming little town of Rowan Springs, Kentucky, and the home she shares with her mother and daughter on Meadowdale Farm. Paisley struggles to restore order to her life, but fate intervenes, and before long she finds herself caught up in an international mystery of truly evil proportions…involving kidnapping, murder, and baby trafficking! ...
Mystery novelist Paisley Sterling takes time off to enjoy the holidays only to be interrupted by her agent. Seems like Leonard Paisley, the fictitious detective who is supposed to be writing her mystery novels, is required to make a personal appearance. Paisley would love to tell the world that «Leonard» is a fake and she does all the hard work, but her agent insists they keep up with the sham until her career is assured. «Leonard» has to be fou ...
Like any successful writer, Paisley had the help of generous friends and colleagues on the way up. Now, insists her mother, it's her turn to come to the aid of a fledgling novelist. But how can reading a manuscript open the book to murder, involving Paisley in a plot to blackmail some of the leading citizens of her beloved Rowan Springs? Solving this crime brings danger very close to home–and someone Paisley holds dear may not survive! ...
In Victor J. Banis's hilarious gender-bender send-up of the mutant superhero genre, hetero Peter Warren's ambition is to design women's dresses, and his most secret desire is to wear them. His cop wife, Teri, also secretly longs to see her hubby «dressed up,» but hasn't yet found the right way to tell him. And when Peter drinks the «wrong stuff,» he turns into the eight-foot-tall monster called Drag Thing. Add to the pot a pa ...
This volume collects two classic works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: «The Yellow Wallpaper» – a chilling tale of descent into madness – and «What Diantha Did,» an early feminist work. Also included is a rare, brief essay by Gilman on why she wrote «The Yellow Wallpaper.» Gilman (1860 – 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist ...
