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  3 Stories About - Charity - A...

  Zona Gale, May Sinclair, T S Arthur

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.

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  Sun Dog Loot

  W. C. Tuttle

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  When lawlessness sweeps across Sun Dog County, Sheriff Brick Davidson faces his toughest challenge yet. A string of daring robberies, a wrecked stagecoach, and mounting political pressure threaten to derail his re-election—and his control of the frontier town he’s sworn to protect. 
  With his witty and loyal deputy Harp Harris at his side and a mysterious professional investigator brought in to assist, Brick navigates a treacherous web of crime, corruption, and high-stakes intrigue. As danger escalates and lives hang in the balance, the sheriff must confront enemies both seen and unseen before Sun Dog County descends into chaos. 
  Packed with grit, humor, and old-fashioned Western suspense, Sun Dog Loot delivers a thrilling tale of justice, loyalty, and survival on the rugged frontier. Narrated by Phil Thompson, this classic Western adventure by W. C. Tuttle brings the golden age of pulp storytelling to life.

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  All the Forgotten Yesterdays

  Frank Zafiro

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  Detective Katie MacLeod must contend with secrets from the past. 
  2010. River City, Washington. Detective Katie MacLeod is already working a pair of burglaries involving a suspect who cuts window screens to enter homes and steals money and drugs from elderly victims. Then she gets handed a cold missing persons case that comes with political pressure. 
  Katie must balance finding a dangerous burglar with discovering the fate of a woman who disappeared five years ago. As she digs into both cases, she finds frustration in one and a slew of secrets in the other. 
  How far will someone go to keep their secrets? Detective Katie MacLeod is about to find out.

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  The Long Walk Home

  A. M. Keen

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  In one single day the entire UK changed, and could never revert back to normality. Bombs detonated in every major city across England, releasing the little known ‘Non Compos Mentis Virus,’ and with it destroying seventy-five percent of the population. However, the virus didn’t kill those who contracted it, but instead infected their minds and senses, turning them in to violent psychopaths that can feel no pain and also gave them a new goal in life; to destroy anyone who does not carry the same virus. Bucky Jackson awakes from a minibus crash that killed most of his school cricket team. Rescued by his friend Johnny, the remaining kids and teachers seek sanctuary inside a hardware shop in a small, Northamptonshire town.As the days pass, they decide to try for a safe zone at a football stadium a few towns away. With every step danger lurks, not only from the zombies that swarm the area in their thousands, but more so from the handful of people who survived the virus outbreak. As their journey continues, Bucky is looked to as a leader to help them reach their destination. They encounter killer clowns, hordes of the undead and an organised crime outfit as well as dealing with treachery within their own group. Bucky must learn to unite his team and teach them to rely on each other, as their journey may be longer than anticipated….

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  Final Call: An unputdownable...

  Alex Lake

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  They thought it was a simple flight home. The pilot had other plans… 
  A moment of calm 
  Heading home after a conference, the senior leadership of a global corporation relax on their private jet ahead of their Christmas break. 
  A flash of fear 
  But their peace is shattered when they realise their jet isn’t taking them home. Instead, it’s heading east—out over the Atlantic Ocean. 
  A journey of terror 
  And things go from bad to worse when their pilot tells them she is going to crash into the ocean if one of them doesn’t confess to murder…What readers are saying about Final Call 
  ‘Highly recommend if you want a fast moving gripping read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘This book is made for binging and it kept me up reading way past my bed time’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘Very addictive, I whizzed through reading this’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘Kept me on the edge of my seat the whole story’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘So many twists and turns’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘It tugged at your heart string at every turn’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘This story kept me guessing right up until the big reveal’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘Kept me reading for hours’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘This is an amazing story with so many twists and turns that it will have your head spinning’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  In Final Call, Alex Lake masterfully weaves a tale of mystery and thrillers, keeping readers on the edge of their seats. The Sunday Times bestselling book is a testament to Lake's prowess in the genre of police fiction. 
  For fans of Freida Mcfadden (The Tenant), Charlie Donlea (The Girl Who Was Taken), Lisa Jewell (None of This is True), Riley Sager (With a Vengeance), and John Marrs (When You Disappeared). 
  HarperCollins 2023

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  A Pastoral Horror - Writer of...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22nd May 1859.  His childhood was blighted by his father’s heavy drinking which for some years broke up the family. Fortunately, wealthy uncles were willing to support them by paying for education and clothing.  
   
  He was accepted at the University of Edinburgh to study medicine and also began to write short stories the first, ‘The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe’, was published in Blackwood’s Magazine.  Despite several other stories and some articles in the British Medical Journal his medical studies took priority. 
   
  When these finished he was appointed as Doctor on the Greenland whaler ‘Hope of Peterhead’ in 1880 and then, after graduation, as ship’s surgeon on the SS Mayumba on its voyage to West Africa. 
   
  1882 saw a move to Plymouth and his own independent practice. With few patients he resumed writing and completed his first novel, ‘The Mystery of Cloomber’, although most of his output was short stories based on his experiences at sea.  
   
  He married Louisa Hawkins in 1885. However, two years later he met and fell in love with Jean Elizabeth Leckie, though they remained platonic out of respect for, and loyalty to, his wife. 
   
  His literary career suddenly burst into life in November 1886 with ‘A Study In Scarlet’, the first of the fabulously successful Sherlock Holmes stories.  
   
  With two children to support he now revisited his haphazard commercial arrangements and curtailed everything save for commissions from the Strand Magazine.  
   
  As a sportsman he was remarkably proficient. He was goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club and played ten first-class cricket matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club as well as captain of the Crowborough Beacon Golf Club in East Sussex.  
   
  In 1891 tired of writing Holmes stories, he began a series of historical novels and even went so far as to apparently kill off Holmes in a lethal brawl with his arch-nemesis Moriarty. 
   
  Despite heavy and sustained criticism he continued to write in support of the Boer War, a fact he thought contributed to his knighthood in 1902.  The following year to great relief and acclaim he brought Sherlock Holmes back from the dead in his first outing for a decade. 
   
  Sadly, his wife Louisa died from TB in 1906 and, a year later, he at last married Jean.  
   
  During the War and for several years after family deaths had left him depressed. In a search for solace and answers he alighted upon spiritualism and, such was his interest, that he wrote several books on the subject. 
   
  On 7th July 1930 Conan Doyle was discovered in the hall of Windlesham Manor, his house in East Sussex, clutching his chest dying of a heart attack.  He was 71.

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