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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have remained, from 1927 to the present day, the screen's most famous and popular comedy…
double act. The author examines the duo from their early lives, to solo careers and through their serendipitous teaming at the Hal Roach Studios. 2001.
While Paul Soloway is recuperating from having been kidnapped and beaten, he is courted by the media to tell his…
story. An unpublished novelist, Paul is loathe to cash in on what he considers to be a cheesy story of random violence. When his agent finally discovers which buttons to push, Paul agrees to a lucrative book deal about his experience. Meanwhile Paul's captured abductor is contemplating his own claim to fame. Some strong language and some violence. 1996.
Rancher Frank Claymore is on trial for murder. As his life story unfolds, it tells of hard work, Indian fighting,…
and the unshakeable effect of an old injustice. Some strong language. 1984.
Miles Pruitt teaches at the same high school he graduated from, eats at the same cafe, and sees the same…
faces every day in the small town of Staggerford, Minnesota. But in one week of his routine life, surprises still happen. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 1977. (Staggerford novel)
Iraq invades Kuwait and the world lurches towards war. In Washington DC and London, two governments dread a biological attack…
that will lose them the battle before it begins. However, two intelligence agents are in a position to avert the catastrophe - Avery is a former SAS man; Corrigan is a Delta Force Soldier. Each is on a separate deep-cover assignment to penetrate the world's deadliest terrorist organisation. 1993.
For twenty years, a killer has eluded capture for a brutal double murder. Forensic artist Annie Kingston has agreed to…
draw the updated face of Bill Bland for a popular television show. She must hope that the drawing leads the authorities to Bland-before Bland can get to her. 2004.
In 1984, the author, a deputy chief constable in England, was sent to Northern Ireland to investigate the murder of…
six Ulster Catholics. He writes about the policies of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and the British government's decision not to prosecute the killers. Stalker was dismissed from his job because of his investigation, but later reinstated. 1988.
What might have been if Germany had invaded and conquered Britain in 1941. In a ravaged London under Nazi occupation,…
Superintendent Douglas Archer of Scotland Yard, under SS command, starts work on a murder case. He soon finds himself involved with the Free British underground, who despise him for working for the Nazis. Can the Resistance exploit tensions between the German Army and the SS to rescue the King, who is a prisoner in the Tower of London? 1978.
Mysterious things happen when an American girl and her family come to France to claim an abandoned country cottage that…
was willed to them. Jan learns that a murder was committed in the attic of the cottage years ago by someone apparently looking for something of great value. An atmospheric mystery for grades 5-8. 1981.
The objective of Robert Oppenheimer and his elite of Allied scientists was probably the most closely guarded secret of the…
war. Yet the wise man among the Red Indians, whose reservations at Los Alamos had been appropriated for the atom bomb test site, divined the nature of the experiments on the Hill and was as grimly troubled as to the consequences as were some of the scientists. The collision of two cultures on the eve of a new world. 1986.
John Putnam Thatcher is a banker, yet he also manages to lead a covert life as an amateur detective. In…
this novel, Thatcher is working in the airline business, an environment which he discovers is riddled with sabotage, plotting and elaborate schemes to block plans which the management have to expand the operations of Sparrow Flyways. Characters who feature alongside him in this mystery include a sharp television reporter and an airline pilot who is found murdered in Boston harbour. 1988.
Retired social anthropologist Stella Brentwood moves to western rural England near her old school chums. Stella has lived all over…
the world and observed many different societies in her line of work. But once in the country, she finds it difficult to adjust--especially with a dangerous, dysfunctional family next door. 1999, c1998.
Hillen continues the story of his youth in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. With the war over,…
his parents move to Canada. Adjusting to a new country and language, while adjusting to adolescence, is a challenge, but he learns about a new world of baseball, school, snow, and vanilla milkshakes. Sequel to "The way of a boy" (DC12232). 1997.
Fictional account of a musical from inception through road tryouts to Broadway opening. The cast and crew argue, laugh, and…
love with gestures even larger than those used on stage. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1980.
Jack McGreary is young man with more than his share of burdens to bear: his mom is dead, his dad…
is nuts, his girlfriend is apathetic and his hometown of Paradise Flats is one big, go-nowhere Depression dustbowl of despair and poverty. So when dapper grifters Virgil and Miss Rose blow into town - scamming the local yokels with sleight-of-hand tricks and other deceits - Jack sees them as his ticket out. But what begins as a thrilling escape from the tedium of small-town life soon morphs into something more sinister. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2007.