The Classic Bestselling Saga by Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg" ""Lord Valentine's Castle" He is a man with no past-- a wanderer without memory of his origins. He calls himself Valentine. As a member of a motley group of entertainers, he travels across the magical planet of Majipoor, always hoping he will meet someone who can give him back what he has lost. And then, he begins to dream--and to receive messages in those dreams. Messages that tell him that he is far more than a common vagabond--he is a lord, a king turned out of his castle. Now his travels have a purpose--to return to his home, discover what enemy took his memory, and claim the destiny that awaits him...

John Ryker was just about the most lethal one man slaughter force in the violent West. An ace gunsmith and professional bounty hunter, no one knew more about death than Ryker.So when Matthew Tennant was gunned down by a stranger sporting a Smith & Wesson Russian, Ryker soon found himself out on the trail in search of Tennant's killer.Tennant's widow had offered $5,000 if Ryker could find the right man, and it was a surefire certainty that when Ryker found him a lot of lead was going to let fly ...

After her grandfather's death, Cassie longs for an orderliness to life -' a pattern -' that doesn't exist among her raucous, loving family. But during an eventful summer by the sea, she begins to learn that some things do not stay the same forever. Colorful characters [and] Cassie's continuing and believable growth in understanding herself and others [make] this novel so distinctive." 'C.

Around the Border they called him Breed. Part white, part Apache, he'd been christened Matthew Gunn, but the Apache had given him their own special name-Azul.Right now, Breed was in one whole load of trouble. He'd killed two men and got a price on his head. What he didn't know was that Fritz Baum, a bounty hunter with a taste for violent killing, had been paid a handsome sum for tracking down Breed and delivering him to a mysterious stranger in Cinqua. Baum's reputation was second to none — but so was Breed's when it came to dealing in death. And when the two of them clashed the fighting took on a whole new shade-death red!

There was not a whole lot of talking going on ...On account the two up top—driver and guard of The Central Western Stage Line's Concord coach—were the strong silent type.On account the younger woman inside was in deep mourning for her late lamented husband, the young man was of the Eastern and inscrutable persuasion, and the older woman believed in keeping herself to herself. Even if that was kinda difficult with the bucking, jolting stage throwing them all together.And the six Ute braves, war painted and feathered, who ambushed them didn't have polite conversation in mind either. Just killing.Two others who'd never been great on idle chatter: Edge and Adam Steele. Who just happened to be riding within hearing distance of the gunshots and the screaming and knew that the time had come for some actions that spoke louder than words.

Within the Constellation of the Serpent, out of bounds to all spacefarers, humans live among the insect-like aliens--and one of them, a woman named Raen, is bent on a revenge that will tear apart the truce between human and alien. "Brisk pacing . . . and genuinely brilliant world-building".--ALA Booklist.

In A FEW GREEN LEAVES the author combines the rural settings of her earliest novels with many of the themes- and even some of the characters- of her later ones. Switching points of view among many characters, she builds with accumulating effect the picture of life in a town forgotten by time yet affected dramatically by it. Historical time- represented by Druid ruins, the local eighteenth-century country manor, and the last aristocrats who occupied it in the 1920s- is juxtaposed against the banalities of life in today's world.

While the whole world knows of the legendary Sherlock Holmes and his Baker Street beat, only dyed-in-the-wool aficionados of the fine art of detection have been privileged to make the acquaintance of Solar Pons and his Praed Street office. Now faithful followers and mystery loves alike will shiver in delight as they join in the case of crime along Old London's cobblestone alleyways...discovering new joy in the tradition of deduction at its very best.THE CHASE CONTINUES . . .Once more, the most successful of pastiche-detectives, Solar Pons, sets out apace with a new sequence of pulse-stopping adventures. Faithful followers and mystery lovers alike will delight in the superlative sleuth's deductive cunning as they join him and his ever-constant companion, Dr. Lyndon Parker, in chase of crime.Come, journey back to the spine-tingling yesterdays of criminality at its worst, and detective work at its best, in turn-of-the-century England, where Solar Pons, London's most redoubtable hero since Sherlock Holmes, awaits. But make haste! The game is already afoot!Contents"The Adventure of the Haunted Rectory""The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich""Murder at the Zoo""The Adventure of the Frightened Governess"

Product DescriptionIn Thomas H. Cook’s first novel, a weary detective tracks a blood-crazed psychopathBlood seeps into the gutters at the children’s zoo in Central Park. Two deer have been slaughtered, one stabbed fifty-seven times and the other slashed across the neck. Normally it would be a case for the Parks Department, but these are no ordinary deer. The pride of the small menagerie, they were given to the zoo by a prominent socialite who cannot afford bloody headlines. The NYPD hands the case to Detective Reardon, star of the homicide squad.A recent widower at fifty-six, Reardon has seen too many human victims to care much about the two butchered animals. He resents being taken off other pressing cases for the sake of politics, but soon another killing snaps him to attention. Two women are found dead in their apartment, one stabbed fifty-seven times and the other with her throat cut. Surely this vicious parallel isn’t a coincidence.…

Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir. "As a crime novel," wrote the London Times, Innocent Blood is "the peak of the art." "Flawlessly crafted...profoundly, masterfully moving," Cosmopolitan concurred.ReviewTime The reigning mistress of murder.People P. D. James is "the greatest living mystery writer." From the Inside FlapAn original novel of extraordinary power, Innocent Blood is the story of 18-year-old Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, who is plunged into a dangerous and terrifying world when she discovers the shocking truth about her natural parents - and learns that her birth mother is about to be released from prison. Innocent Blood is considered by many to be one of P.D. James' finest novels.

For Nina O’Connell, a trip round the world was the holiday of a lifetime. Travelling in a group led by the attractive James Kiley and his friend Tony Shawfield, she is surprised when she runs into an old flame on a sunny Amsterdam street. But Robert Renwick, ex-army major attached to NATO, is not there by chance. He is on the hunt for two terrorists who have left a trail of bombings and murder in their wake, and now he must keep Nina safe while trying to discover their next target. Soon Nina is caught up in a grim game of life or death that stretches from the back streets of Bombay to the highest reaches of Washington’s political elite.Review"MacInnes is... the acknowledged queen of spy story writers." (TIME Magazine)" About the AuthorHelen MacInnes (1907-1985) was the Scottish-born American author of 21 spy novels. Dubbed “the queen of spy writers”, her books have sold more than 25 million copies in the United States alone and have been translated into over 22 languages. Several of her books have been adapted into films, such as Above Suspicion (1943), with Joan Crawford, and The Salzburg Connection (1972).

From a quiet turn-of-the-century village in upstate New York to war-torn London, from the bedsides of the rural poor to the life-and-death urgency of a great New York City hospital, this is a powerful epic of three generations of doctors in one magnificent family. The Farrells-dedicated, brilliant.. and driven to the edge of destruction by a love no human force could suppress.From the Paperback edition.