Private Detective and retired counterintelligence officer Art Hardin usually stays away from the flashy kind of PI work, paying his bills by doing surveillance, checking up on false disability claims, and the like. So when the senior partner one of the premier legal firms in Grand Rapids approaches Hardin about a job protecting his niece from her soon-to-be ex-husband for a couple of days, Hardin isn't exactly eager to take on the job, not the least because the niece herself is under house...

Art Hardin, retired military intelligence officer turned private investigator, is content with his regular caseload involving insurance fraud and employee theft. So when a wealthy industrialist approaches Art to find an old flame, he's wary of taking on the case. Only when pressed by his wife, Wendy, does Art agree to help, but only if the decision to make contact is left to the missing person.The former lover, a reclusive but prominent artist who has changed her name, turns up dea...

Eric Stone moves to Savannah, Mo., starts a new law practice and is pleasantly surprised when he finds he has inherited a large old house from an aunt he never knew.He moves into the mansion, takes in a housekeeper and her daughter and a family of refugees.His neighbor, a retired, covert CIA assassin, becomes a target when someone from his past wants him dead. Eric walks into the first attempt on the old man's life and helps keep the killers at bay.His simple life i...

This is the raw, unfiltered account of a life lived under sustained pressure across multiple countries, systems, and institutions between 2001 and 2025.Written as lived experience rather than theory, this book documents survival, retaliation, institutional failure, and the psychological toll of prolonged exposure to threat, isolation, and coercion. It does not offer self-help techniques or clinical instruction. It records events as they occurred, from the author's perspective, with...

This book is a first-person autobiographical account of sustained psychological pressure, displacement, and survival experienced across multiple countries and institutions 2012-25 , also between 2001 and 2025.Written from lived experience rather than theory, it documents whistleblowing, retaliation, systemic failure, and the long-term psychological effects of prolonged exposure to threat, isolation, and coercion. The narrative follows a chronological path, examining how hostile env...

From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Robert Bailey comes a compelling legal thriller about a lawyer who takes on his sister’s case—and confronts small-town secrets and family skeletons.Attorney Jason Rich has made a fortune off other people’s bad luck. His billboard slogan—“In an accident? Get Rich!”—accosts motorists on highways from Alabama to Florida. As ambulance chasers go, he’s exceptional.But after a recent divorce and a stint in reha...

This study provides a new interpretation of art after modernism by foregrounding the importance of conceptual thinking as a pervasive force for change in art and art history since 1950.Robert Bailey shows how distinctions between art and art history gave way as conceptual thinking provided artists and art historians with a common means to reassess what art could be and do in the world. Bailey assesses the results of artful and scholarly inquiries combining creative activity with in...

"Some secrets age well, others tend to fester. Art Hardin, a private investigator and retired counterintelligence officer, is a man of many secrets. One of these secrets has fallen into the hands of a local TV muckraker, which can cause enough trouble to keep most noir detectives busy for three hundred pageArt's not that lucky.Just after Art locks horns with the journalist, his wife, Wendy, takes him to the airport to pick up a young friend returning from a Caribbean vacation. Karen Smith ...

Robert E. Bailey’s Art Hardin became an instant mystery icon with the publication of his first novel, Private Heat, won the Josiah W. Bancroft Award at the Florida First Coast Writer's Festival in 1998 and was nominated for the 2003 Shamus Award, given by the Private Eye Writers of America.Now, in a new short story, Bailey gives readers a look into Hardin’s past and shows us a bit more of what made him the PI fans have come to admire.

From the award-winning author of the Art Hardin series—Private Heat, Dying Embers, and Dead Bang—comes a compelling new mystery, Déjà Noir.Ray Kerze hasn’t been having the best time of it. His closest friends are the guys in line with him at the liquor store before breakfast. He lives in his office in the decaying heart of Detroit, and that’s only because the building is so far gone, no one shows up to collect rent. An ex-cop turned private inves...

This book provides the background, knowledge, and tools to model and assess the health of freshwater ecosystems. For more than 100 years, freshwater scientists have used the biota living in an ecosystem to assess the effects of human activity (bioassessment), and in the last 50 years, in jurisdictions around the world, bioassessment of freshwater ecosystems has been embedded in legislation. In the 1990s, there was general acceptance of the so-called “Reference Condition Approach" to bioass...

All effective modern animal training has a common basis: the discovery of "operant conditioning" by B.F. Skinner. Assisting in this research were Keller & Marian Breland, graduate students of Skinner who continued to develop the science into a systematic method for training animals. They documented their work in the seminal text, Animal Behavior, first published in 1966 but out of print for decades. This historic book brought the Brelands' research to the world.In 2018, Animal Beha...