When Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews talk their way into a meeting with famous film director Alfred Hitchcock, they ask him to introduce their first case to help launch their new detective agency. Mr. Hitchcock, agrees, but only if they can find him a haunted house for his next movie.Jupiter decides Terror Castle is the perfect place for Mr. Hitchcock's movie. It was the home of movie star Stephen Terrill, who died in a car accident many years ago. Terrill is rumored ...

"Letters from Mesopotamia" is a compelling collection of correspondence that offers a unique glimpse into the experiences of soldiers during World War I. The letters, penned by Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer, vividly capture the daily life, struggles, and emotions of those stationed in the Mesopotamian theater. Through his eloquent prose, Palmer provides readers with an intimate understanding of the challenges faced by troops, the camaraderie among soldiers, and the impact of war on their p...

Some crimes are solved. Others are buried. And some wait for history to speak again.In True Cold Cases of History: Book One, Arthur Robert reopens twelve gripping real cases of forgotten crimes, missing truths, false suspects, hidden scandals, and mysteries that refused to disappear. From shadowed city streets and isolated farmhouses to vanished evidence and secrets locked inside old records, each case reveals how truth can survive long after just...

Tales to be told in a graveyard. Creepy stories, ghostly lore, and eerie tales that will make you shudder. Short stories with just the right touch of the strange. So sit down on a gravestone and prepare to be frightened.The Little Green Orchard by Walter de la MareSomeone is always sitting there, in the little green orchard, but who?The Voice by Madeline Yale WynneIs it better to be seen but not heard, or heard but not seen?

When the price of Ginseng advanced some years ago hundreds engaged in the business who knew little or nothing of farming, plant raising and horticulture. That they largely failed is not to be wondered at. Later many began in a small way and succeeded. Many of these were farmers and gardeners. Others were men who had hunted, trapped and gathered "seng" from boyhood. They therefore knew something of the peculiarities of Ginseng.

Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature's greatest detective team — the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson — as they investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. Originally published in 1892, this is the first and best collection of stories about the legendary sleuth.

As opposed to memorizing German phrases or forcing yourself to get through another dry German grammar or verb manual, this Dual Language Reader (DLR) will keep you excited to get to the next page of the story, while you simultaneously absorb and learn the German language! This compilation features Sir Arthur Conan Doyles masterful Sherlock Holmes adventure: The Hound of the Baskervilles coupled with the exceptional German translation created by Robert Lutz. Join Sherlock Holmes in his adven...

Paul Grayson walked the city street slowly. He was sauntering towards the spaceport, but he was in no hurry. He had allowed himself plenty of time to breathe the fresh spring air, to listen to the myriad of sounds made by his fellow men, and to revel in the grand freedom that being out in the open gave him. Soon enough he would be breathing canned air, pungent with the odor of compressor oil and the tang of the greenery used to replenish the oxygen, unable to walk freely more than a few do...

What if the most infamous occultist of the 18th century found a way to reach across time? Step before the mirror, if you dare, and invite the darkness of Count Cagliostro into your home.The story centers on a man who acquires an antique mirror supposedly once owned by the notorious 18th-century occultist, Count Cagliostro. The man soon discovers that the mirror is a vessel for dark magic, capable of reflecting the spectral image of Cagliostro himself. The protagoni...

A heartbreaking love story set against the beauty of the north.In 1972, John Daniel, an eleven-year-old Blue Indian from Aberdeen in Canada's Northwest Territories, and his six-year-old sister, Eva, were brought to live with a white couple in Alberta, having been removed from their parents by the Powers that Be. John promised he'd never go back. But in October 1984, at twenty-two, he broke that promise. A job with a drilling company brought him back to the land of his people, and T...

Who would suspect that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire fiction. From the bloodsucking plant in The American’s Tale” to the bloodsucking wife in The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire,” he reveled in the horror created by creatures who survived on the blood of men and women.As the bestselling

A book that vigorously defends heroin users and sex workers? In You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos Robert Arthur does that and more to demonstrate that taboos are not relics of primitive societies. America has its own ridiculous phobias and beliefs that cause tedium, suffering, and death. The government and the media use these taboos to lie and mislead. It is not a conspiracy, but by pushing panic for votes and viewers they thwart our pursuit of happiness.You Will Die expose...