Charles Todd, a successful artist who paints horses, arrives at his cousin Donald’s house and stumbles on a grisly scene: police cars everywhere, his cousin arrested for murder and Donald’s wife brutally slain. Believing — unlike the police...
Black Dove...
The identity of the notorious criminal, Black Dove, still baffles the officers of Interpol, the Surete and Scotland Yard. But there is nothing to connect him with Peter Churchman, an Englishman living quietly in Southern Spain with...
The KGB was planning to wreck the U.S. economy by forcing the biggest banks to dump all their stocks at the same time. A plant in one of Boston’s old families — and the manipulation of their vast financial power — would trigger total economic...
A hundred years ago, in the Himalayan peaks of Nanvi Dar, the daughter of an English earl is kidnapped by a huge hairy monster. In a secret valley Agatha Farlingham is introduced to a family of motherless yetis and devotes her life to their...
Admiral Slovo was a man of his time, but of more than one dimension..In his
sixteenth century, a pirate might be followed by the corpse of his victim,
walking across the ocean, until putrescence claimed it. Or an interview with
the Pope might be...
A story of Lien, the albino Celestial, at her first meeting with Napoleon.
"In Autumn, a White Dragon Looks over the Wide River" is a short story taking place during Black Powder War. It was first printed in 2009 at the end of In His Majesty's...
Set in the time of Dionysios I of Syracuse, at the beginning of the 4th century BC, Th e Arrows of Hercules tells the tale of Zopyros of Tarentum, an engineer who invents an improved type of catapult. He is quickly drafted by Dionysios into...