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Playing protector to a runaway puppy-faced poodle, Kaiser Wrench trades barbs and lead with crooked politicos, snarling hoods, and a sex-hungry female.

A kidnapping case leads Kaiser Wrench into a 14-year-old mystery and the sights of the most diabolical killer the clawed private eye has ever faced.

Private Detective Kaiser Wrench finds a dead vixen who has been beaten to death. He tries to stay out of it until he gets a note from someone he put in prison asking him to take the case. A reporter friend has stumbled onto a clue, but dies with a handkerchief in his hand trying to get the information to him. So begins a complicated and baffling case involving the sadistic deaths of other females trying to break into the fashion industry. Can Kaiser, with the help of his beloved Velvet, break the ring that is crushing the lives of vulnerable females?

Tiny Wallace’s one claim to fame was knowing Kaiser Wrench. Was that reason enough for someone to gag, torture, and kill the mule? Or was it the five wallets found in his garbage? Bodies pile up while Kaiser returns the wallets, trying to find the killer while Duke and the feds are busy searching for a biological terrorist.

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.

A bloody massacre. A looming civil war. Can two opposed gryphons work together to save their kind? Zeph thrills at the wind in his wings and the hunt for wild parrot. As a simple forest gryphon, he never thought much about his sophisticated city-dwelling cousins living in the lofty eyrie at the edge of the woods. But, his carefree life turns upside down when he comes across a young city gryphon stunned by her discovery of a field littered with slaughtered animals.

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.

Apropos is the unlikely noble whose life began in the lowest of ways: as the result of a gang assault by a group of drunken knights on a helpless tavern wench. Last time out, Apropos attempted to seize control of his own fate, and ended up with, appropriately, nothing. Time has passed since he fled the kingdom of Runcible, and Apropos leads a quiet existence as a tavern owner. All that changes abruptly, however, when the sorceress Sharee re-enters his life with the forces of the warlike Lord Bellicose hard on her heels. They want something they're convinced she has stolen.

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.

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.

Lou Prophet is in mixed company these days. He doesn’t mind being close to his pretty pistol-packing partner, Louisa Bonaventure. Known as the Vengeance Queen, she has his back — and dare he say it, part of his heart. But accompanying the vile outlaw Blanco Metalious back to Nugget Town to see him hang isn’t exactly Lou’s idea of a good time.