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Matt Burnett joins the militia when he hears of pending French and Indian attacks upon colonial settlers. He immediately finds himself regarded as a hero and at the same time a spy-suspect, both situations arising from a series of incidents involving the young Major George Washington.Matt and Chief, his elderly Indian accomplice, begin their adventure by foiling an ambush of Washington. Shortly afterward, Matt is part of the young Washington's first military command. The colonial militia, augmented by British regulars, sets out to intercept a French and Indian invasion.Washington is beset by the resentment of regular British officers at being subordinate to a colonist. He is also hampered by the lack of discipline in his militia, and by the nagging doubt about whether one of the colonials in his command is practicing treachery. The climax comes when the young colonel, abandoned by the British and outnumbered by the enemy, decides to erect a primitive defense which history remembers as Fort Necessity

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED -- SOMETHING DEADIt was the wedding of the season. The bride was society's most beautiful darling. The groom was one of the richest men on the Eastern seaboard. To be invited was an honor; to be overlooked was social death. A few eager status seekers tried to sneak in -- but they were all sent away in disgrace.Except for one uninvited guest, with a vital function to perform: MURDER.

She played a dangerous game -- with love, men, and money! A Wildside Crime Classic by the author of The Star Trap and The Captain Must Die!"Bob Colby was more than just a 'one-hit wonder.' He wrote several other respected novels in the 1950s and '60s, including The Deadly Desire and The Secret of the Second Door (both Gold Medal, 1959) and dozens of short stories for Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne... Do me a favor: hunt down one of his novels and give it a try." -- Peter Enfantino"He had a journalist's eye for his times. This was especially true in the novels he set in Hollywood. [The Captain Must Die] is his masterpiece. You will not be disappointed." -- Ed Gorman

This is a fine World War 2-era historical novel (based on Allan Cole's family experiences) set in Florida, on the "Home Front". Nazi submarine attacks off the coast are but the start of the problems for local residents. But human will to overcome obstacles in the face of adversity will surely save the day...won't it?The author writes: "Between February and May of 1942, German U-boats operated with impunity off the Florida coast, sinking nearly two dozen freighters from Cape Canaveral to Key West and killing five thousand people. Residents were horrified witnesses of the attacks-the night skies were aflame and in the morning the beaches were covered with oil and tar, ship parts and charred corpses. The Germans even landed teams of saboteurs charged with disrupting war efforts in the factories of the North. This novel is based on those events. For my own purposes, I set the tale in the fictitious town of Juno Beach on the banks of the equally fictitious Seminole River-all in the very real Palm Beach County, a veritable wilderness in those long ago days. Among the witnesses were my grandfather and grandmother, who operated an orchard and ranch in the area."

"Once upon a time" is a magical phrase; an incantation that conjures stories into being and gives them life. What we now call "fairy tales" outlived their original creators, outlasted their descendants, and one day might very well survive the death of our species. When, and if, humanity leaves this planet, fairy tales will make the journey too -- into the far-flung reaches of the galaxy and into the distant dimension of the future.How different will the fairy tales of the future be from the stories told around hearth fires a thousand years ago? I suspect they will be utterly different and yet completely familiar.

So this was the end ol his basketball career! The old man had dumped him, used him for an example in some crazy moral lesson. So he had broken training a few times. Other guys did. But who had scored the points when they were needed? Les Beach, that's who! But, no, Raines had called him a ball hog...self-centered, conceited, biggity, headline hunter...The way Les Beach sees it, everyone has it in for him because he comes from the wrong side of town. He doesn t realize that he brings many of his troubles upon himself, and he will fight at the scrape of a shoe. Only his fierce love for the game and the interest of a few special people make him swallow his pride to get back on the team, but even then it takes some doing to knock the chip off his shoulder.

Death strikes down a man on the eve of his wedding to a lovely girl. The verdict is suicide, but the girl is certain it is murder-certain because of a closing door. Inspector McKee wonders, too, and soon both he and the girl have their hands full trying to catch up with an ingenious murderer who leaves a corpse-dotted trail.

Pat Campbell is back - the big man, six-foot six to be exact, with the big heart-in a story brimming with action and suspense... Clients were more than paying customers to Pat Campbell. they were friends-whose problems remained his problems even after they themselves ceased to care... Wark Andross-for one-was certainly beyond earthly cares now. Wark was a man whom peaople loved without regard for his millions. It was entirely fitting, therefore, that the press should memorialize his untimely death as "Unfortunate! Regrettable! Deplorable!" And it was natural for the police-circumstances being what they were-to tag the case as just another unfortunate accident. But Pat Campbell was dissatisfied with the tearful condolences on the one hand and the routine judgments on the other. To his mind, there were too many questions about Wark's death still unanswered; too many evasions and conflicting reports. Somehow it didn't seem reasonable that a man in the prime of his life, in full posession of his faculties would... And for murder, eight million dollars could prove a powerful incentive! So Pat went to work. And soon he found himself locked in a struggle to the finish with a desparate-but resourceful-murderer.

In The Tide Turns, Donald Barr Chidsey, with the same sense of immediacy that made July 4, 1776, Valley Forge, and The Great Separation so successful, permits us to share the ordeals of the colonial army in New York and New Jersey during the first year of the rebellion. We see the approach of the largest fleet the British had ever assembled, the unopposed landing of a colossal army and its supplies on Staten Island, and the feverish preparations by George Washington and his aides. The British appeared to be in no hurry, but when they did move, they were invincible.The Battle of Long Island saw the colonials outmaneuvered, outmanned, outgunned. By the time the Americans had withdrawn, the British had taken over 900 prisoners, including two major generals. At their own pace the British captured all of New York, including Fort Washington, and overran New Jersey. The rebellion seemed at an end. But Washington provided the necessary miracle-the crossing of the Delaware, and then the capture of Trenton. Before winter set in and campaigning became impossible, the British were cleared out of most of New Jersey.Once again, Donald Barr Chidsey has brought history alive and has added a great popular interpretation to the literature about the founding of our country.

The star was a curse. To get it, Charlie Bronson stopped at nothing.Because of his obsession, he almost ruined his marriage, almost destroyed his wife. Men under his command were needlessly killed. For the star, murder was committed...ONE STAR GENERAL is a novel you won't forget and won't be able to put down once you have started it. By the author of THE GREAT MAN, this book is the story not of a single man, but of a system and what it does to those forced to live under it.

Night Music: Eight homicides in one night couldn't have come at a worse possible time for already-overworked Detectives Frank Vandegraf, Jilly Garvey and Dan Lee of the Personal Crimes Unit. The night began with the audacious shooting of a shady and reviled investigator, and proceeded to get nonstop crazier. They can't rely on the over-strained resources of their department, and as the cases compound and unexpected connections emerge, they're on their own against the clock, fatigue, and mounting pressure from above. There's only their own experience and savvy to fall back on as they navigate the treacherous urban territory they know so well. Open and Shut: The ultimate fate of a brilliant surgeon, convicted of the brutal murder of his wife, may be determined by two very different red-haired women. One is the mysterious lady in emeralds, who may be the key to proving him innocent, if only she can be located. The other is Detective Jilly Garvey, who doggedly worked to convict the surgeon but might now be his reluctant salvation. She and her partner, Detective Dan Lee, are driven to uncover the truth, following an elaborate and daunting trail of evidence through a maze of jet-set socialites, urban hipsters, shady investigators, low-life criminals…and still another murder!

In one jump, Marty Bowman made it from lifeguard to bodyguard -- and what a body! Her name was Kate. She hired him as her protector and/or playmate. She took him to a luxurious desert hideaway. All of which was fine with Marty -- until his lucky silver dollar turned up in the fingers of a corpse. One of the guests was out to frame him, maybe murder him!Marty figured he and his gun could make out even against guys as dangerous as Dr. Cronk. But what about women like Sandra, who'd swim only after dark? And glamorous Elsa, so interested in his muscles? Unless Marty could flush the killer among them, and quick, the weekend with Kate would wind up with him in a pine box -- or the gas chamber!

Lovely Ann Cramer made a cozy alibi for Jason Broome -- and Craddock made his favorite corpse. But when Anne sword to the police that she had spent that whole kiss-and-kill night with him, was she really saving Jason from the hot seat...or luring him into MURDER WITHOUT TEARS!

Eleanor, Martha, and Penny King, though sisters, grow up in separate households, their lives linked yet completely individual. This intimate novel about them shows the three ways in which women can work out their own destinies in today's world.Eleanor, charming and serene, becomes the successful wife of a successful businessman. Yet beneath the comfort and tranquillity of her outward life are frustration and incompleteness.Penny, as greedy as she is breath-takingly beautiful, decides that she will take anything she wants from the world. In return she gives nothing, not even honest passion. Her reward is contempt and dislike from those she believes to be her friends.Martha is a talented, common-sense girl who makes a reputation as a teacher and writer before she marries Bill Knight-and discovers that, once married, a woman's life is no longer her own.How each of these sisters solves her own problem in her own way is the theme of this provocative novel by an author already successful in another field of fiction. Mrs. Marlett's story is a warm and human narrative of women in search of fulfillment in a world in which women's responsibilities have enlarged along with their opportunities.

A helpless woman is attacked in her home by a ruthless gang of murderers and thieves searching for her brother's valuable gun collection. They fail in their mission, and now they're coming back to finish the job…this time determined to leave no eyewitnesses alive. Sheriff Washington Shipp must use all his instincts and expertise to track down the mob before they can strike again!

Chester Drum flies to Spain's Costa del Sol to investigate kidnapping and murder among the expatriate set, who drink always, work never, and love only themselves.

A rampaging wife of a Manhattan socialite plunges with her car into the East River -- and it is only weeks afterward that a sleugh decides to do something about a recurring corpse... A Detective McKee mystery, from the author of Dead Man Control and McKee of Centre Street.

When Patty and Jo Faraday returned to Harker's Cove, the scene of their exciting adventure with an escaped convict, it was for a fun-filled summer vacation. It started with a birthday party at which the Faraday twins received a lovely music box with a toy drummer on top. But the toy drummer had a strange history, and one day he disappeared. How Patty and Jo caught a mysterious prowler and found out what the toy drummer really is makes exciting reading.

A double murderAnd the killer -- whoever he was -- showed signs of getting rattled. Wade Paris knew he had to get him fast, before he could strike again.So step by step, he closed in on the unknown killer -- putting on the pressure.Then the killer broke and went for Wade. And the trouble was -- Wade still didn't know who was the killer!

PROBLEM ONE: An Earthman is suddenly and mysteriously transposed to an alien planet: an utterly empty, completely lifeless outpost of a far-flung galaxy. The Earthman has no idea where he is, how he came to be on the godforsaken world, or how to get home.PROBLEM TWO: For company there is only a computer: a computer which has all the answers to all of the Earthman's questions. But the computer is programmed to give information only to those properly trained and qualified to understand it. The Earthman is not.SOLUTION: The Earthman must outwit the rigid electro-mechanical being to leam the secrets that will get him back to Earth . . . but the solution is the biggest problem of them all!