Corpses Say The Darndest Things


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It was a simple job: keep an eye on the minister's wife until she goes safely to bed. Then all hell broke loose. The death of a beloved Chicago televangelist’s wife is only the beginning; someone is homiciding their way through the Temple of Majesty Church. Private eye Nod Blake - an aging throwback to an era of detecting on the mean streets - has been dumped in the middle of it all, on his head. The resulting injuries seem to have opened a door to the hereafter: Blake believes dead people are talking to him. But are the victims really begging the gumshoe for help from the other side of the grave? When his nemesis, Detective Lieutenant Wenders, finds evidence that Blake is the murderer, the private dick's life becomes a great big soup sandwich. Doug Lamoreux's 'Corpses Say the Darndest Things' is a riveting murder mystery with a sly sense of humor, set in 1979 Chicago where a maniacal killer on the loose in The Windy City... is the good news.




Shot In The Dark


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A collection of three crime fiction series starter novels by Brian L. Porter, Doug Lamoreux & Stuart Field, now available in one volume! A Mersey Killing: In 1961 Liverpool, a group of aspiring musicians chase their dreams amidst the burgeoning Swinging Sixties. Meanwhile in 1999, skeletal remains discovered in the docklands ignite an investigation that spans generations. Detective Inspector Andy Ross and Sergeant Izzie Drake navigate a journey through time, delving into the early days of the influential Mersey Beat scene. But can they unravel the mystery of the long-lost woman and the bones hidden beneath the River Mersey for over three decades? Corpses Say The Darndest Things: The death of a beloved Chicago televangelist’s wife is only the beginning; someone is homiciding their way through the Temple of Majesty Church. And private eye Nod Blake has been dumped in the middle of it all, on his head. The resulting injuries seem to have opened a door to the hereafter: Blake believes dead people are talking to him. But are the victims really begging the gumshoe for help from the other side of the grave? When his nemesis, Detective Lieutenant Wenders, finds evidence that Blake is the murderer, the private dick's life becomes a great big soup sandwich. Steel And Shadows: After losing his family, former British Special Forces agent John Steel arrives in New York determined to locate the person captured in a photograph. NYPD detective Samantha McCall is investigating a triple homicide when Steel offers his assistance in tracking down the perpetrator. What initially seems like the work of a serial killer soon turns into a sinister labyrinth of deception. With ruthless mercenaries, enigmatic informants, and haunting echoes from their pasts, the unlikely duo must navigate a treacherous web of betrayal in order to bring the perpetrator to justice.




Nod Blake Mysteries - Books 1-3


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The first three books in Doug Lamoreux's Nod Blake Mysteries series, now available in one volume! Corpses Say The Darndest Things: After the wife of a beloved Chicago televangelist dies, aging private eye Nod Blake gets dumped in the middle of it - on his head. Blake believes dead people are talking to him, but are the victims really begging the gumshoe for help from the other side of the grave? When Blake's nemesis, Detective Lieutenant Wenders, finds evidence that Blake is the murderer, the private dick's life becomes a great big soup sandwich. Red Herrings Can't Swim: The cynical, wise-cracking private eye is back. From beyond the grave, victims of crimes past are begging for Blake to solve their murders. Meanwhile, in the real world, he's flummoxed by vandals, threats to his life, raucous suspects and a homicide detective happy to pin killings on him. Murder Can Be A Mistake: Once again, Nod Blake has been dumped in the midst of murder most foul. He is psychically besieged by victims, begging him from beyond the grave to solve their murders. In the real world, he has to deal with an anonymous blackmailer, death-defying stunt men - and a homicide detective who seems to think that Blake is behind it all.




Murder Can Be A Mistake


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An actor stabbed and shoved off a balcony to his death. A haunted wild west stunt show. And murder... murder... murder. Nod Blake, the cynical, wise-cracking private eye is back. An aging throwback to a bygone era of detecting on the mean streets, he's a dinosaur of a private eye who never got the memo he was extinct. Once again, Blake has been dumped in the midst of murder most foul. He is psychically besieged by victims, begging him from beyond the grave to solve their murders. In the real world, he's flummoxed by vandals, an anonymous blackmailer and death-defying stunt men - and hounded by a homicide detective happy to pin the killings on him. It's an all new murder mystery with a sly sense of humor, set in 1979 Chicago where a maniacal killer riding free on the range... is the good news. The third book in Doug Lamoreux's Nod Blake Mysteries series, MURDER CAN BE A MISTAKE contains grim murder and outrageous laughs, peppered with adult themes and language.




The Smallpox Report


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After the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has become synonymous with an opaque biopower that legislates compulsory immunization at a distance. Contemporary illness narratives have become outlets for distrust, misinformation, reckless denialism, and selfish noncompliance. In The Smallpox Report, Fuson Wang rewinds this contemporary impasse between physician and patient back to the Romantic-era origins of vaccination. The book offers a literary-historical account of smallpox vaccination, contending that the disease’s eventual eradication in 1980 was as much a triumph of the literary imagination as it was an achievement of medical Enlightenment science. Wang traces our modern pandemic-era crisis of vaccine hesitancy back to Edward Jenner’s publication of his treatise on vaccination in 1798, the first rumblings of an anti-vaccination movement, and vaccination’s formative literary history that included authors such as William Wordsworth, William Blake, John Keats, Mary Shelley, and Arthur Conan Doyle. The book concludes with a re-examination of the current deeply contentious public discourse about vaccines that has arisen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. By recovering the surprisingly literary genres of Romantic-era medical writing, The Smallpox Report models a new literary historical perspective on our own crises of vaccine refusal.




Out of the Depths


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The Holocaust has presented us with innumerable questions that we wrestle with today. How could such systematic evil be perpetuated in a country renowned for its sophistication in all areas of the sciences and the arts? How could the world turn a blind eye to what was happening and close its doors to potential victims? How could ordinary people participate in this horror? How could others act to save Jews at the risk of their own lives and the lives of their families? How could those facing imminent destruction continue to study agricultural techniques useful to the future state of Israel or teach their children how to paint? It is my hope that these plays will serve to focus on some of these questions, even as we witness new genocidal wars around the world. There is an imperative here as old as the Biblical account of Genesis. It is for us to affirm the goodness of the world as it is - -the potential goodness of human nature- - and the need to create (and procreate) even in the force of destruction and death.




An Undetermined Manner of Death


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A medical mystery/crime fiction hybrid and second-in-series Matthias Kork novel featuring a humorous blend of lying, cheating, killing and domestic drama. An excommunicated Mennonite drug user is found dead in his locked apartment. He is heavily decomposed and is lying exactly parallel to a vintage Winchester rifle. The scene might have been staged, but there are no suspects or any apparent motive for murder. The decedent's attractive daughter is the beneficiary of his three-month-old life insurance policy, which a suicide verdict would invalidate. She is promoting a homicide verdict to the investigating coroner, and she is very persuasive. 54,202 words




Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal


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The irresistible, ever-curious, and always bestselling Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm that people carry around inside.




Drum


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Robin Hood


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The champion of the destitute and downtrodden rides again. Meet young Robin Hood before he becomes the hero of Sherwood Forest, and follow along with his band of merry men as his adventures become the stuff of legend. This lavishly illustrated picture book makes a wonderful gift title to complement Arthur of Albion and The Arabian Nights, and features nine tales including: “Robin Becomes an Outlaw,” “Robin Meets Little John,” “Robin and the Widow,” and “Robin’s Last Battle.”