Review"One of the most affable tales of liberty without license that has appeared since You Can't Take It With You. ... a fine, knockabout extravaganza. ... Mr. Powell achieves the impossible on occasion. The impossible, that is, in stimulating our willing sense of disbelief. ... An awesome feat." --The New York Times "Richard Powell's best-selling The Philadelphian was a sophisticated tale, its wit on the urbane side. Pioneer, Go Home! proves his talent is not confined. It is hilariously funny, wonderfully satisfying, will send you into gales of laughter!" --Cleveland Press The funniest rural-flavored book since No Time For Sergeants. --The Wall Street Journal Review"Richard Powell's best-selling The Philadelphian was a sophisticated tale, its wit on the urbane side. Pioneer, Go Home! proves his talent is not confined. It is hilariously funny, wonderfully satisfying, will send you into gales of laughter!"

How come a New York reporter like Ross millan was combing half of Mexico looking for old man Shumway’s missing daughter? Millan had asked himself the question a dozen times-and when he found her, he asked himself a whole lot more questions. For the shapely blonde he’d seen in the photograph turned out to be a fast-talking lady who packed a punch like a prize-fighter, did a little magic on the side, and just happened to be a dip-a very efficient pickpocket. From the day little Miss Myra Shumway walked into Millan’s life things were never quite the same…

"Three Came Home" tells of the author's time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. It describes Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from her husband Harry, and with a young son to care for. Keith was initially interned at Berhala Island near Sandakan, North Borneo (today's Sabah) but spent most of her captivity at Batu Lintang camp at Kuching, Sarawak. The camp was liberated in September, 1945.

Abridged scan of Weird Tales volume 28 number 2 (August-September 1936). The pulp magazine's copyright was not renewed but "Death Holds the Post" by August Derleth and Mark Schorer was renewed individually and is still under copyright. Therefore, pages 222 to 232 have been redacted, along with some text on page 233. The remainder of the magazine is in the public domain.

THE Philadelphia Murder Story concerns the astonishing case of Myron Kane, distinguished columnist and contributor to the Saturday Evening Post, in whose palatial offices he is found stabbed to death. It is as baffling a mystery as ever turned a magazine—and Philadelphia society—inside out. Colonel Primrose does a brilliant sleuthing job as usual; Mrs. Latham helps and hinders in her own inimitable fashion; and Sergeant Buck disapproves thoroughly of the whole business. There is a second murder, a romance, plentiful excitement and a great deal of interesting Philadelphia background in this grand story, in which real people under their real names play amusing and exciting roles.   

Set in a shocking New York underworld populated by a constellation of punks, low lifes, thugs, nymphs, vice lords and bag men, Marilyn The Wild is the first book in Jerome Charyn's classic Isaac Quartet. Issac Sidel is the toughest, hardest, most incorruptible police officer in the business, and he runs the meanest kingdom in New York City - the Lower East Side. But his biggest problem is his daughter - Marilyn the Wild. A tough-talking Bronx-Manhattan girl - twice-divorced by twenty five - Marilyn has a taste for the wrong men. And Manfred 'Blue Eyes' Coen, Isaac Sidel's handsome sidekick and spy, is just that sort of man. So when a vindictive teenage gang makes Marilyn the target in a crazed vendetta against her father, the stakes are high for both Isaac and Blue Eyes.Review"Charyn has trained his prose and makes it perform tricks. It's a New York prose, street smart, sly and full of lurches, like a series of subway stops on the way to hell" New York Times "Brilliant and engrossing and absolute fun to read" Los Angeles Times About the AuthorJerome Charyn was born in the Bronx in 1937, and is the author of more than thirty books, including Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins, Metropolis: New York as Myth, Marketplace And Magical Land and The Black Swan. He has lived in Barcelona, Houston, Austin and San Francisco and now divides his time between New York and Paris, where he teaches film theory at the American University and writes regularly for Cahiers du Cinema.

The offices, penthouses, and suburban chateaux of New York are the setting for Louis Auchincloss's The Dark Lady. Spanning three decades from the 1930s to the McCarthy era, the novel chronicles a powerful woman's rise and the human toll it exacts.In a world where birth and style count nearly as much as wealth, Elesina Dart is supremely equipped to star. Lovely, well-born, bright, even moderately talented as an actress, Elesina seems perversely bent on canceling out these advantages. After two destructive marriages and an affair with alcohol, she is close to low ebb when Ivy Trask takes heron. Ivy's business is the exercise of power, as editor of the fashion-arbitrating Tone magazine and in her own loveless life. In Elesina, she finds material worthy of her best efforts.Stage-managed by Ivy, Elesina makes a widely successful and equally scandalous match with Judge Irving Stein, banker, connoisseur, collector — and old enough to know better, as all who are close to him point out. Mistress of Broad-lawns, living's Westchester estate, and caretaker of his fabulous art collection are roles Elesina takes in stride. Forall his riches and influence, Irving is a man of deep sensibility, a romantic — as is David, his attractive youngest son, whose passion for his stepmother leads to tragic consequences. Inevitably, husband, lover, and friend all fall victim to Elesina's need for the center stage, which she has come to see as her manifest destiny. In this major new novel, Louis Auchincloss examines the many faces of ambition and desire that rule both the schemers and dreamers of fashionable society. It is a story that only Auchincloss, with his exceptional knowledge and insight, could write.

In a work that strives to do for werewolves what Stoker's Dracula did for vampires, Endore's werewolf, an outcast named Bertrand Caillet, travels round seeking to calm the beast within. An episodic tale, the story wanders through 19th Century France and into hotspots like the Franco-Prussian war. Stunning in its sexual frankness and eerie, fog-enshrouded visions, this novel was decidedly influential for the generations of horror and science fiction authors who came after.

The college of the future has one solitary purpose: endless battle. Political organizations urge ruthless combat with an invisible opponent and each student is challenged to be more extreme than the rest. One man found his fame from kidnapping and killing a professor. Instantly he is immersed into the world of grease-guns and grenades, where the anarchy is suspiciously formulated. The professors have forgotten their pursuit of knowledge, midnight groping at the point has turned into isolated sex with keyboards and the only goal is to completely in deadly political games. By becoming a shining example of academic excellence, Tom Gavin has tapped into the secrets inside the private chambers of the university. He finds it is either play the game or die beneath the latest revolutionary fire.

WANTED - DEAD OR ALIVE!John Cardinal - gray eyes, red hair, six foot tall, 175 pounds.... and "vicious with a fast gun!"One Thousand Dollars Reward! For the cold-blooded murder of a U.S. Marshal! For bank-robbery! Cattle-rustling! Stagecoach holdup! Horse-thieving! And for every other kind of skulduggery known!But for John Cardinal himself, there was one terrible irony - he was innocent of all of those things, but determined to follow a fugitive's trail to a showdown with the false law of a passel of pistol-toting pursuers.

His face was burned to the color of old leather, and I guessed he was the type that spent a lot of time on a golf course, or maybe a tennis court. We talked a little about the weather and how hot it was, and then I hung up the hose and went to work on the windshield. That was when I got my first good look at the woman. And she just about took my breath away. Originally published in 1955.

DELOS . . . the multi-billion dollar adult playground that offered the ultimate in almost-live entertainment before its deadly breakdown, has reopened with new fail-safe guard factors and even more fabulous realms of automated pleasure. Those who can afford it act out their fantasies in absolute security. And among those who can afford it are the world’s most powerful leaders. But something is happening at Delos, something evil, something that Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard have to find out before it’s too late-for them . . . and the world . . . Where nothing can go wrong . . . go wrong . . . go wrong . . .

A reading experience you’ll never forget. TAXI DRIVER He is a loner. He collects porno pictures. And fares sexy as animals. He carries thousands of dollars in a money belt. And a three-gun arsenal: .44 Magnum, .38 Smith & Wesson and a little palm piece, a .25 Colt. He spends his nights cruising New York streets in a yellow sardine can on wheels. Someone evil is going to die. Someone strange is a hero.

Aeneas is the powder keg of the universe, a frontier planet where rebellion is a way of life—and death. Smarting under the thumb of the Terran Empire after an almost successful war against Imperial rule, the Aeneans are swept up in a fanatical religious movement that promises the return of the Elder Race.