The village of Ledwardine has never been flooded in living memory, but as the river continues to rise with December rains, within days it will be an island. Electricity has been cut and the church is serving as a temporary mortuary for two people...
NOT ALL PATIENTS CAN BE CURED—OR WANT TO BE.
Visiting psychologist Carolyn Fern’s newest patient is Josephine Ruggles, an heiress whose nightmares leave glyph-shaped wounds across her back. Miss Ruggles’s case is unusual, even for an...
When a two-thousand-dollar a night Atlantic City prostitute extorts her frequent lover, Jag, the enraged presidential hopeful leaves her bleeding to death in her swanky hotel suite and calls in well-placed markers to make sure the crime never comes...
Ernest Hemingway’s biting commentary about life in the United States in the 1930s, To Have and Have Not is one of only two of Hemingway’s books set in the U.S. Harry Morgan is a good man forced by financial circumstances into smuggling Chinese...
Charles Horne, who stuck his neck out to solve the puzzle of the Chinese doll, sticks it out again in Wilson Tucker’s second mystery, TO KEEP OR KILL. In fact, he sticks his whole head out of his office window and becomes one of the victims of a...
To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic novel by Harper Lee, first published in 1960. Set in the racially divided Southern United States during the 1930s, the story follows young Scout Finch and her brother Jem as they witness their father, lawyer...
The Thirteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew.
It is the year 1357, and the University at Cambridge is in a sorry state.
Careful examination of the University’s finances reveals serious shortfalls. Meanwhile, the town’s...