Product Info A voyeuristic bookstore clerk's secret passion for one of the regular customers becomes more than just browsing.... more »

Henry Price has a whole new life-new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. But the first time he checks his messages, he discovers that someone had the number before him. The messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Price is inexorably drawn ... more »

Macon Fallon had never needed much more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun. And he was counting on those things now, as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers into an abandoned mining town. But while Fallon prepared to pass the ghost town off as a gold mine in the making, a funny thing ... more »

In 1844 nobody believed there was gold in California. Nobody, that is, except the Mulkerina and an old Indian with mystical powers. The Mulkerins needed a treasure to settle the debt on their Malibu ranch. The Indian was willing to lead them to one. But riding hard on their trail was the greediest band ... more »

It may be remembered that in the last pages of his diary, written just before his death, Allan Quatermain makes allusion to his long dead wife, stating that he has written of her fully elsewhere.... more » more »

The plan of this tale suggested itself to the writer many years since, though tbe details are altogether of recent in-vention. The idea of associating seamen and savages in incidents that might be supposed characteristic of the Great Lakes having been mentioned to a Publisher, the latter obtained something ... more »

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THE MISTRESS OF MANHUNTING - ELLERY QUEEN In these eleven mystery tales, E. Phillips Oppenheim (a master of mystery the New York World), the master of spy and mystery thrillers, takes us to London in the early 20th Century and the world of Clara, Baroness Linz - English by birth, Austrian by marriage ... more »

More deadly than the male. Kipling's line about the female of the species has been quoted, particularly as a text for dissertation on the female criminal, perhaps rather too often. There is always a temptation to use the easy gambit. It is quite probable that there are moments in a woman's life when ... more »

A jealous computer salesman finds a letter in his wife's dresser and can't decide whether or not to read it, so he takes it to work and has a really bad day that gets worse by the hour. more » more »

Hopalong rode into cattle country just east of the California line looking for his old friend Red Connors. He found Red holed up in a mountain cave with a bullet in his side and a story to tell. The ranchers around Tascotal had been losing their stock, and when Red caught the rustlers in the act, they ... more »

When Major Frank Paddock and Barnes Kilrone were dashing young officers in Paris, they had both fallen in love with the same woman.  But now they are men in exile on one of the harshest territories of the American West, and Paddock has made a choice that will plunge both men into a battle for ... more »