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 ...

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...

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...

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...

WHEN IT COMES TO MURDER, THERE'S ALWAYS A CHOICE…The only thing more varied than how people are killed is the many, many ways people try to get away with this terrible crime. Now masterful mystery writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis brings together 23 classic stories of crime and suspense, whodunits and detective stories from some of the finest authors of the 1950s.Ross Macdonald's classic P.I. Lew Archer takes a chilling case in California, where the mob isn't ...

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...

In "The Indulgence of Negu Mah," Robert Arthur intricately weaves a tapestry of fantasy and philosophical reflection. Set in a richly imagined world, the narrative follows its protagonist, Negu Mah, through a journey of self-discovery and moral challenges that resonate with contemporary themes of identity, freedom, and societal expectations. Arthur's literary style is marked by lush descriptions and an innovative use of language that elevates the fantasy genre, drawing on elements of mytho...

Dieter, the orphaned son of a music professor, becomes the resident “piano man” in a pub favored by students and Nazi military personnel.Sofie is the indulged daughter of a prominent Wehrmacht general and a graduate music student at Berlin’s finest university. She serves as her father’s hostess in his elegant home on Wilhelmstrasse, which is frequented by prominent leaders of the Third Reich. Sofie enjoys the new popular music being written and performed in America – but banned fro...

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.

Creating the 'Big Mess' and its sequel Accounting for Crises use Marx's theory of capitalism to explain why there is no generally accepted theory of financial accounting, and explore the consequences, by studying the history of American accounting theory from c.1900 to 2007. The answer, Creating the 'Big Mess', is first that while late-19th century British accounting principles, founded on the going-concern concept, provided an objective basis for holding management accountable to sharehol...

First published in 1972, Distribution Theory follows on from the author's earlier book, Descriptive Statistics and Probability Theory, but may easily be followed by any reader who has not studied that particular book but who has gained some knowledge of numerical distributions and basic probability theory. The author has attempted to steer a middle course between those textbooks which concentrate solely on statistical calculations and those which concentrate solely on sta...

First published in 1972, in Descriptive Statistics and Probability Theory the numerical work- the selection of numerical data-is used as a basis for developing the statistical theory. Other starting points could have been chosen but a beginner will readily understand this sort of work and hence be able to ‘get the feel of’ statistics, untroubled by the learning of fresh concepts.From this numerical work emerges the ‘need’ to introduce counting techniques, permutations, com...