A John Justin Mallory story. It's four days before Christmas Eve, and Nick the Saint's most important reindeer is missing ... without Jasper's blue nose, the fat man with the white beard has no way to avoid satellites and heat-seeking missles. more »

It was the Road which caused the trouble. It usually is the road. That and a reigning prince who was declared by his uncle secretly to have sold his country to the British, and a half-crazed priest from out beyond the borders of Afghanistan, who sat on a slab of stone by the river-bank and preached a ... more »

Good old Stanley, always willing to do a favor. Stanley Hastings, the worst private detective in New York--maybe in the known universe--enters the big league. When asked to investigate Sergeant MacAullif's son-in-law, Stanley gets himself into trouble yet again. Doing favors can create a lot of problems ... more »

I saw it as a vast opal inside which I stood. An opal luminously opaque, so that I was dimly aware of another world outside mine, terrible and alarming to the prisoner in the opal. It was what is called a fire opal, for every now and then a streak of crimson, bright as the flash of a rifle on a dark ... more »

A Romance of the Tropical Forest I admire you greatly, Sir Serpent, I said, or thought, but it is dangerous, say the military authorities, to leave an enemy or possible enemy in the rear; the person who does such a thing must be either a bad strategist or a genius, and I am neither. more »

A veces lo que ya sabemos es el mayor estorbo contra el aprender. La espiritualidad cristiana es un ejemplo perfecto del hecho. Los evangelios no solamente dicen el cuento de Jesucristo. Son obras de maestría que están diseñadas para hacer entender en muchos niveles. Tal vez el nivel más importante es ... more »

The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from ... more »

He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.  Curly was the victim.  They were camped near the log store, where she, in her ... more »

Product Info The burglar killed all five members of the Torgenson family with a knife as they prepared breakfast, and the police detective's best hope for a solution is the injured family cat. more »

Lisa is lost. P.I. Marc Wilson thinks she may be just another good-looking runaway in America's paradise. But the deeper he looks, the more he finds concealed beneath the placid Caribbean surface: sex, drugs, revenge, and political blackmail. Then dead bodies begin to surface, and Wilson knows he needs ... more »

The wide front door hung open, a seductive invitation to a dark interior veiled by dust motes that glittered in the spectral greenish glow... The Shadows is a historic 1920s house that inspires preservationists' dreams -- and developers' schemes. Built during Prohibition by a notorious rumrummer who ... more »

He came out of a doze that was half nightmare, to see the red-hued she-wolf before him. She was not more than half a dozen feet away sitting in the snow and wistfully regarding him. The two dogs were whimpering and snarling at his feet, but she took no notice of them. She was looking at the man, and ... more »