Publisher: Legorreta
The Whisperer in Darkness by H.P. Lovecraft A tale of cosmic horror where a scholar investigates strange happenings in rural Vermont. Encounters with extraterrestrial beings blur the line between reality and nightmare, emphasizing themes of isolation, cosmic dread, and humanity's vulnerability to ancient, otherworldly forces.
Secondhand store owner Sarah Grayson and her affectionate rescue cat, Elvis, will scare up a few leads to find a killer in the newest installment of this captivating New York Times bestselling series. After a long, cold, and snowy winter, it seems as though spring may be arriving early in Maine. Sarah Grayson is busy at her store, Second Chance, and she's looking forward to an afternoon break from the hustle and bustle, tagging along to the North Harbor Spring House Tour with her friend Detective Michelle Andrews. But it turns out one of the houses has a haunted history, and when a ghost hunter is found dead on the premises, Sarah knows the best way to uncover the killer is by investigating the not-so-dearly departed. With help from Elvis and Charlotte's Angels, the crew of senior citizen private detectives who work out of the store, she'll close the case on this creepy crime.Show book
Annie and Nate Dawson, joined by family and friends from the O’Farrell Street boardinghouse, investigate crimes in books 5-7 of the romantic and suspenseful Victorian San Francisco Mystery series. This boxed set includes Pilfered Promises, Scholarly Pursuits, and Lethal Remedies. Pilfered Promises: The future looks promising for Annie and Nate Dawson. Nate’s law practice is taking off, Annie has made the transition from pretend clairvoyant to a successful financial consultant, and they are looking forward to spending their first Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays together. Then Robert Livingston, the owner of the Silver Strike Bazaar, hires them to figure out who is stealing from him, and they discover that behind the doors of his “Palace of Plenty,” nothing is quite what it seems. Scholarly Pursuits: While Annie and Nate Dawson await a blessed event, Nate’s sister, Laura, who is attending the new university across the bay, encounters fraternity hazings, fraught romantic relationships, and fractious faculty politics as she investigates what caused the death of a young Berkeley co-ed. “Something is rotten in the state of Berkeley”--1881 University of California Blue and Gold Yearbook. Lethal Remedies: Annie has a beautiful child, a loving husband, and a well-run boardinghouse, but she’s feeling restless and unhappy. When she is hired to solve the financial and legal difficulties facing the Pacific Dispensary for Women and Children, San Francisco’s first female run clinic, she finds that getting back into the business of investigating crimes is exactly the remedy she requires.Show book
THE SOLITARY BICYCLE THIEF. Remember Violet Smith, the beautiful young woman who Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson rescued from a forced marriage, as recorded in The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist? Ever wonder what happened to her and her true husband, Cyril Morton, in the years that followed. Well, ten years later she and Cyril reappear in 221B Baker Street with a strange tale of the theft of their bicycles -- hardly a crime worthy of the brilliant mind of the world's greatest detective. But ...What on the surface seemed like a trifle turns out to be the door that leads Sherlock Holmes into a web of human trafficking, espionage, blackmail, and murder. A new and powerful cabal of master criminals has formed in London and they will stop at nothing, not even the murder of an innocent foreign student, to extend the hold on the criminal underworld of London. Uncovering their network leads Holmes and Watson into the dens of iniquity and vice, with frightful consequences for a group of innocent students and even for the love Mrs. Morton. Join Holmes and Watson as they live and work in the London of 1904. It's a fun read and is a tribute to the original Sherlock Holmes story in the Canon.Show book
Empires have been a fact of life for many thousands of years in all corners of the globe. Some have lasted a mere generation, others for a millennia. Some have defenders that cite advancements and security but detractors rail at the imposition of one culture upon defeated societies for no greater reason than conquest. In this volume we put together stories from a wide range of classic authors, including Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Talbot Mundy, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, H Rider Haggard and many others to view the British Empire both from the inside as subjects and from the outside as writers through engrossing narratives. These literary leviathans could observe, sample, question and report as part of an Empire upon which the sun never set and who’s morals were sometimes good, but often bad, as it bestrode the world as Imperial policeman and bully-in-chief grabbing the profits of others as it imposed a Pax Britannica that was in reality only of real benefit to the elite at home. Times may have changed yet these stores offer a fascinating insight into the world as it was. 1 - Tales of Empire - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 2 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling 3 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling 4 - Long Odds by H Rider Haggard 5 - The Indian Orphan. A Tale by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 6 - The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad 7 - Those Who Wait by Ethel Dell 8 - The Metropolitian Emigrant by John Galt 9 - His Unconquerable Enemy by W C Morrow 10 - The Soul of a Regiment by Talbot Mundy 11 - An Outcast of the People by Bithia Mary Croker 12 - The Spectre Bridegroom by William Hunt 13 - The Maltese Cat by Rudyard KiplingShow book
A retired Green Beret who can't walk away from trouble finds no shortage of it. This omnibus edition collects the standalone John Tyler action thriller novels Lost Highway and Four on The Floor. Lost Highway: A pop singer is missing, and she'll soon be completely gone. For John Tyler, the clock is ticking. While waiting for his new car repair shop to open, Tyler takes a job on the protection detail for singer Alex Anne. When Alex Anne disappears, Tyler ignores the official investigation and launches his own. He discovers a notorious group of traffickers targeted the singer to sell her to the highest bidder. The odds are against him finding her, but John Tyler never cared about the odds. Four on the Floor: A simple favor leads to the discovery of four corpses. Tyler picks up his daughter Lexi's friend Stacy at the airport in bad weather. When they arrive at the young woman's house, however, four corpses litter the floor. And the killers are circling back . . . When Stacy ends up in the enemy's clutches, Tyler stages a desperate gambit to get her back alive. Why are she and her family targets? Finding out might cost John Tyler his life. The John Tyler novels are gripping military thrillers you can read and enjoy in any order. Read for you by award-winning narrator Eric Jason Martin.Show book
After a harrowing honeymoon marked by three deaths, Chance and Catherine discover darkness still lurks as they are ensnared in a web of mystery and danger. Held hostage by a desperate man, housekeeper Sarnai Ganbold is thrust into a deadly conspiracy linked to a murder thousands of miles away. After a harrowing honeymoon marked by three deaths, part-fixer Chance Yang and his wife Catherine return to London to seek solace among friends. But the couple discovers that even amidst the celebration, darkness lurks as they are caught in a web of mystery and danger - it seems they can trust no one when danger is next door. As Chance prepares to settle down with his new wife, he stumbles into a dangerous encounter with a man haunted by the aftermath of a missed phone call and a tragic accident. Driven by grief and determination, Ikenua Joseph will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind his son's tragic demise. And with each revelation, suspicion shifts, and fingers point in unexpected directions. What begins as a hapless incident soon becomes a labyrinth of deceit and betrayal. And as Chance delves deeper into the mystery, can he uncover the predator hiding in the shadows of their friendly clique? Or will a distraught father be left forever searching for justice?Show book
