This book is not really part of the Daisy Weal series, but it does take place in, what can only be described as, the Daisy Weal universe.Two hundred years had passed, and the flagship of the Star Fleet, HMSS 'The Daisy Weal' was heading towards Cren to deliver an archaeological and survey team.An accident happened. A beam of energy from an unknown source penetrated the ship killing all passengers and crew instantly.The ship took evasive action and escaping on emergency...

The Year was 2310, and the Royalists, including King George the ninth, were unceremoniously thrown off the Earth. Crammed into whatever ships that they could find, they travelled along the Orion Cygnus arm of the Galaxy to finally settle on a world they named Mastreel.Fifty years later, in 2360, a ship from each section of the human race coincidently met in the Antares system. As both ships emerged, their proximity alarms sounded, and both Captains looked, in horror at the emblems ...

When the body of the British Home Secretary's son is found in an alleyway where he had been battered to death, Larry Dexxman, a seventy-five year old private detective is thrown into the middle of a political minefield that could easily cost him his life.His only protection is Sally, a tiny Shih-tsu/Yorkshire terrier cross, Penny his twenty-four-year-old assistant and his own combat experience gained in the armed forces fifty years ago.Narrowly surviving several attempts on h...

Erun Oncant, the ordinary son of ordinary parents, lived in Cardoney. That is, until chosen by a dying dragon to be the rider for her unhatched daughter.As he took the sword from her dying body, it became instilled with magical powers, and all that remained of her flowed into it.The egg hatched into the first ever yellow dragon, a colour never seen before and only talked about in legend, and with the help of Princess Lelia from the Kingdom of Vanticor, he cared for her, as sh...

Cindy Lost was an ordinary girl with an ordinary mother. That is, until she set the cat's tail on fire by waving a stick at him.After that everything became weird. Gnomes coming out of her mother's glass cabinet, being just one example, and large Black birds asking to be let into the house being another.Her introduction into a world of enchantment and all things magical was tempered by the knowledge that something evil was lurking there.Finding out that her mother w...

The title story is a science fiction short based on the work of two well known authors, but those that precede it, may stretch your imagination by taking you into all that is weird and wonderful.A ghost in love, a fortune from a Leprechaun, an evil twin, a time traveller, a door to Narnia, the revenge of a witch, and a visit from some aliens are just a few of the things that, hopefully will make you laugh, cry or be terrified.Our hero moves into a new house, and it's haunte...

Robert was almost ten years old, so things like make believe worlds and strange creatures were no mystery to him. He wasn't a complete baby, and realised that was just what they were, make believe. So when his Grandpa started to tell him stories about other realities and the weird and wonderful beings that inhabited them, he thought he was just being told made up stuff. That is, until he took a real look into Grandpa Kenneth's garden shed….

Five hundred years ago, humans burst through a portal between realities, bent on conquest. With the help of the Elves from this reality, they tried to eradicate the dragons. Things did not go well, and the invaders moved the Elves to safety between realities and withdrew. The power used to move the Elves, backfired through the portal, damaging the invaders reality severely, and the dimensional key, in the form of a Diamond sword was left behind.But now, after five centuries, the swo...

When all the bodies have been filed away, and the killer of the Home Secretary's son apprehended, Larry must cope with being inundated with the request for work, having become a household name and a knight of the realm. But then unaccountably he starts having dreams...Harry, the eight year old son of Malcolm and Natalie Firth, engages Larry Dexxman to find his mother, but he has no idea of the can of worms that he is about to open. Larry is astounded to realise that he knew that Har...

The passenger liner the Star Queen, suffered mysterious damage to its jump engines and emerged from hyperspace, close to the sun, at half light speed on a collision course with Earth. Distress signals were sent out as the ship scorched into the Earth's atmosphere to explode devastatingly just before impact.600 years later, and 600 light years away, the distress call is intercepted by a warship of Her Majesty's Star Fleet. The distress call is a radio signal, presumably because of an...

It all started when Larry Dexxman received a letter more than twenty years late. It cast doubt upon the official verdict of accidental death on two employees of a legal company, one of which was Larry's former wife. Several attempts on Larry's life, when there is no discernible reason for them, drag him ever further into a web of lies and deceit.It seems to involve espionage, and is believed to be centred on the law firm of Parkes and Parkes, until links back to a former adversary a...

This book is an Omnibus edition of two books'The Yellow Dragon' and'The Diamond Sword of Tor'