Last Trump, first published in 1937 as part of the Red Badge Mystery Series, features private detective Peter Clancy, assisted by his servant Wiggars. The setting is a small cruise ship, and Clancy must determine who among the passengers is the perpetrator of a series of murders aboard the ship. Author Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973) published 60 novels during her long career, all but one featuring detective Peter Clancy.

Dead End Street, first published in 1936 as part of the Red Badge Mystery Series, features private detective Peter Clancy, assisted by his valet Wiggars. Author Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973) published 60 novels during her long career, all but one featuring detective Peter Clancy.Synopsis from the original edition: Albert Madison picked up a strange valet in an even more peculiar way. But the haunted look on his face remained. Sally Howard's inordinate curios...

Sudden Death, first published in 1935 as part of the Red Badge Mystery Series, features private detective Peter Clancy, assisted by his valet Wiggars. Author Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973) published 60 novels during her long career, all but one featuring detective Peter Clancy. Synopsis from the original edition: The body of Marvin Hayden was discovered in his own library, dead from a bullet wound in his head. The pistol was undoubtedly his. The Medical Exa...

A Man's Enemies, first published in 1937 as part of the Red Badge Mystery Series, features private detective Peter Clancy, assisted by his servant Wiggars. Author Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973) published 60 novels during her long career, all but one featuring detective Peter Clancy. Synopsis from the original edition: If Top Hat Rafferty had remained on the straight and narrow path; if Peter Clancy, by what we call chance, had not happened to stop in on the night wh...

Counterfeit, first published in 1933, features private investigator Peter Clancy, assisted by his valet Wiggars. Author Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973) published 60 novels during her long career, all but one featuring detective Peter Clancy. From the dustjacket: "Three men are dining together in a brilliant New York restaurant. Red-headed Peter Clancy, private investigator, is host. Raymond Trant, of the Secret Service, and Captain of Detectives Kerrigan are his care...

The Unlatched Door, first published in 1920, marks the first appearance of detective Peter Clancy. During her long career, author Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973) published 60 novels, all but one featuring Clancy, who begins his career with the police; later books have Clancy working as a private detective. Clancy is also later joined by his trusty valet Wiggars, who first appears in the tenth book of the series: Dead Man's Shoes (1929).

This book is about how the world we live in is more often made by others’ intentions than our own. That is because we fail to act upon our own good or better intentions. Our modern predators (like commercial marketing) make the world we live in according to their own interests. We apparently don’t care where we’re headed as a civilization. Our predators do. So we passively adapt to the destiny they are making for us. Our technologies don’t care where we end up, and apparently, we don’t car...

This book takes you on an adventure, an adventure into why you are the way you are, and hence why the world you live in is the way you perceive it. It is a challenging adventurethis seeing why you are the way you are and your world is the way it is. Most people dont care, but they end up regretting not understanding this whole business of perspective in their lives gone by. You are holding in your hands the prescription for avoiding that all-too-common regret at the end of life. Herein are...

People have always tried to explain whatever they want to talk about or have to deal with in their worlds. To explain something to oneself or to others makes it comprehensible. If the explanation becomes socially tenable, it provides a person or a tribe with a perspective on their world, a way of knowing it. That perspective becomes their reality. It is a virtual reality, created by people for the use of those people. Virtual realities are products of our talk and our minds, which archive ...

Thayer always serves up a seven-course meal, and Leadership Virtuosity is a great banquet! (Chris Comeaux, president/CEO, Four Seasons). What you have in your hands is the most unique and potent book on leadership you could lay your hands on. It introduces the concept of virtuosity as the crowning achievement in all leadership. In these twenty lessons, Lee Thayer, one of the worlds leading consultants, brings you the building blocks for becoming a virtuoso leader: 1. The lucky leader 2. Th...

This little book is the only instruction book youll ever need about how to avoid failing by default. Youll learn how to fail on purpose, with dash and aplomb. Youll meet many familiar peoplepeople you will immediately recognizein these pages. Here and there, you might catch a glimpse of yourself.

This book is not about communication as it is generally understood, or as you may understand it. It is about how communication ought to be understood according to how it actually occurs. The popular understanding of communication is simply not consistent with the facts. If your concept of communication is faulty, you will frequently be perplexed, frustrated, and even angered. Our communication problems are not engendered by the world outside of us. They are engendered mainly because our co...