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He was a nice cheetah. Now he's dead. Kaiser Wrench suspects murder, while the cops are calling it a suicide. Without a license or a gun, Wrench is pushing his way through a swirl of sex-and-game clubs, high priced models, and not just a little blackmail. Someone is working hard to frame Wrench and he’s working hard to find out why. Everywhere he turns, he keeps coming up against a beautiful tigress named Viola. She holds the key to the crime wave that could unlock the mystery behind the nice cheetah’s murder...

Private Detective Kaiser Wrench is on the prowl for international spies, on the lookout for military secrets, and on the make with a treacherous society mink too tempting for her own good.

Private Detective Kaiser Wrench comes to the rescue of a prostitute. The next day, the papers say she’s dead from a hit and run. Her missing ring is the only thing he has to go on that proves she was murdered.

Private detective Kaiser Wrench is determined to catch and kill the person who shot his close friend dead. A beautiful, seductive tigress is one of the suspects. As he follows clues, the body count rises.

Kaiser is a dangerous tiger to call "friend". But, if you're murdered, he will avenge your death. Join him in the next four cases.

Private Detective Kaiser Wrench is a dangerous tiger to have as a friend, but he will avenge your death. Follow Kaiser as he prowls the streets of New York in the first five volumes of this series: I, the Tribunal; My Claws Are Quick; Retribution Is Mine!; A Solitary Evening; and The Great Slay.

Before the pandemic, I routinely ignored my natural musings as I hypnotically traveled down the road. During the pandemic, I deliberately gathered these words and thoughtfully trimmed and polished them, before forging them in the furnace. This book is a collection of those aphorisms.

A humorous and informative look at some of the basic electric arc welding processes. A realistic discussion of important welding terms pertinent for all levels of welding experience. It is a book written to get you thinking about what you wanted to know about welding, but were afraid to ask.

Garret Cartel. Cessna University’s starting shortstop. Painstakingly gorgeous. Reserved. Friend-zoned since freshman year. I have a knack for falling for unattainable guys. Blame my trust issues. They keep me safe. But this is our final year. My last chance to break the dreaded friend-zone chains before graduation. There’s one slight problem. Every time we get close, Garret pulls away. There’s a secretive side to him I haven’t tapped. And I need to know. Is it his secret keeping us apart, or something bigger?

Seven centuries into the future, aliens and humans compete for the greatest prize in the universe: the Galaxy Bowl trophy. Quarterback Quentin Barnes enters his third season at the helm of the Ionath Krakens. He's reshaped the team in his image, and the time for excuses is over; it's win, or be replaced. Quentin's championship quest carries him and his teammates across the galaxy in a brutal 12-game season fraught with injury and death. But he faces more than just on-field challenges.

Eleven stories of horror, dark fiction, and fantasy that will take the listener into worlds where a centuries old hanging tree feeds on the living, and a lovecraft inspired tale of a mad genius opens a portal to another world filled with hideous creatures, and a pretentious travelling salesman is haunted by ghosts who have come to make him pay for the sins of his past.

Crop circles magically appear in Farmer Johnson's field. A mysterious light sweeps over the night sky and awakens Farmer Johnson and Gilbert, the boy next door. Curious, Gilbert ventures out to discover the source of the light and stumbles into a beautiful Martian girl sitting in a crop circle. Farmer Johnson also investigates the strange light, and thinking that Gilbert and Aoléon are vandals, he chases them.

An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a longtime resident of a psychiatric hospital, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn teenaged volunteer. Told with Chekhovian restraint and compassion, and conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not a Stranger Here is a triumph of storytelling.

Spying on the Luminon, Aoléon and Gilbert uncover his plot to steal Earth's milk cows. They make the disturbing discovery that the Martian leader plans to disrupt Mars' galact supply. Hoping to reach the galactworks before the Luminon's saboteur, the duo races to warn Aoléon's father, Deimos, manager at the galactworks, that he is in danger.

Aoléon, Gilbert, Bizwat, Helios, and Zoot make it to their final destination, Cydonia, where Aoléon's parents are being held captive. They infiltrate a secret underground base and are confronted by a small army of sentrybots. Bizwat lends Aoléon and Gilbert some of his advanced combat skills via a psionic brain dump.

Aoléon and Gilbert have become the Luminon's top priority in stopping the Martian resistance movement. After being chased by the Royal Paladin Guard, they are forced to flee the Martian Megalopolis. Aoléon, Gilbert, and Zoot escape with the help of Bizwat and his newfound friend, Helios, a first-generation soldierbot. After their saucer is destroyed, they crash land somewhere in the deep Martian desert. They set out to locate Kyrios and the secret base where Aoléon's parents are being held captive.

Aoleon and Gilbert are entrusted with a mission from PAX, a wanted criminal and leader of the Martian resistance movement. He wants them to investigate the Luminon of Mars, who he suspects is planning an invasion of Earth to steal its milk cows. Gilbert has an encounter with the Luminess (the mate of the Luminon) and discovers something strange about her. The undercover duo is chased by the Royal Paladin Guard.

Based on the life of the great short-storywriter Raymond Carver, particularly his last ten, post-alcoholic years, Scissors is that rare thing: a funny, compassionate, and convincing portrayal of the creative life - its compulsions, its rewards, its frustrations, its affinities with tragedy.

A cruel, hated man collects a fortune, then disappears in the desert. The Texas Rangers think it's murder and put one of their best on the job - but he'll need help. There's evil here that no one suspects.

Original story published in Lariat story magazine - July 1947.