Her name was Shaara, and she was built like a technicolor dream. From tip to toe … from back to front … the lady was intricately tattooed. The designs intrigued Pete Schofield, and so did the background … until he saw that thinking along her lines could get him killed. Because someone had designs on her – and not all the reasons were obvious!<P> "Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" – Bill ...
Carol Ann was very photogenic. Especially in certain pictures… But it was more than just a case of over-exposure. There was also a small matter of murder. For Pete Schofield, it was all in a day's – and night's – work. And very enjoyable work at that. Because Carol Ann was a cooperative subject, both on and off camera…<P> "Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" – Bill Pronzini ...
"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" – Bill Pronzini<P> Pete Schofield had been to art-colony parties before. Usually they were all the same, but this one had an added kick. A giant punchbowl, filled to the rim with champagne, and spiked with the barest, most beautiful mermaid he'd ever seen. He was enjoying every inch of it. So was everyone else, until some joker decided to plunge in ...
"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" – Bill Pronzini<P> "A neatly contrived and lively mixture of fast action and sex!" – The New York Times<P> Doll Baby just sat there, blinking her long black lashes and drawing on her long white cigarette. «You've got to help me, Petey Boy,» she said. «They're after me. Two of 'em.»<P>If someone had to be tailed, Doll Bab ...
"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" – Bill Pronzini<P> Pete thought he had it made. A cool half-grand, plus expenses, just to deliver Uncle Pierce Bonwell's bright-eyed and burstin' niece, Honeylou, to her Aunt Cindy – in one piece. But Pete learned the hard way that Uncle Pierce wasn't giving money away. The cost of kidnapping and murder runs pretty high! ...
"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" – Bill Pronzini<P> Pete Schofield tangles with marijuana and murder in a sizzling case that's almost too hot to handle! ...
Hamlet Had an Uncle: A Comedy of Honor is a Shakespearean satire by James Branch Cabell, first published in 1940. Cabell had incubated a Shakespeare satire for decades, and based his tale on the Saxo Grammaticus, an epic saga that recounts the story of the mythic Hamlet. ...
The Golden Age of Weird Fiction MEGAPACK™ series celebrates Clark Ashton Smith with 17 of his classic fantasy & horror stories from WEIRD TALES and other sources! Included here are:<P> THE ABOMINATIONS OF YONDO<BR> THE THIRD EPISODE OF VATHEK<BR> THIRTEEN PHANTASMS<BR> THE CHARNEL GOD<BR> THE COLOSSUS OF YLOURGNE<BR> THE CHAIN OF AFORGOMON<BR> THE BLACK ABBOT OF PUTHUUM<BR> THE VOYAGE O ...
"In the sulphurous The High Place, the amoral hero Florian enters the sleeping-beauty story and (unlike Jurgen with Helen) does not draw back at the sight of excessive beauty. Complications ensue: Beauty is realistically diminished during pregnancy, the first-born child is forfeit to Satan under the pact that guaranteed Florain's success, and an irascible saint is eager to call down holy fire on transgressors. Florian treads close to d ...
