Tales of phantoms, demons and alien gods, including all the stories from the out-of-print collection A Ghostly Crew: Tales from the Endeavour, winner of the Dracula Societys Children of the Night Award for 2001

Henry Staunton is a self-important, prosperous man not without self-esteem. He is utterly distressed to find his new Grace Chalice (the celebrated golden cup that had cost him a pretty penny) missing from the safe, securely built into the wall and hidden behind a looking-glass in his office. A man who values his privacy enormously, Staunton chooses not to involve the police and instead approaches Holmes, who is intrigued by the mystery. All the while, Esme Freeling, a criminal Holmes was p...

How exactly does one first become introduced to Sherlock Holmes? Even if you have not yet discovered the original stories, you'll know that Holmes is omnipresent in everyday life. His name has become a byword, whether used sarcastically or admiringly, for someone who investigates matters or solves troublesome problems. His iconic image appears in cartoons, greetings cards and advertisements. His exploits are dramatized for the stage, radio, audio recordings, television and...

A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader. SHANDYGAFF: a very refreshing drink, being a mixture of bitter ale or beer and ginger-beer, commonly drunk by the lower classes in England, and by strolling tinkers, low church parsons, newspaper men, journalists, and prizefighters. Said to have been invented by Henry VIII as a solace for his matrimonial difficulties. It is believed that a continual ...

Praise for A Tooth for an Eye: The Report Card Murders,also by Roger L. Johnson"...a fast-paced intelligent thriller with a perfect blend of psychological tension and emotional depth..."—Basil Penny, a reviewerCassie Hamilton, a 23-year-old orphan studying for her master's in accounting at UC San Diego while working at the Hotel Del Coronado lives on a sailboat she purchased with her parents' life insurance money and regularly goes sailing with her un...

A working time machine, a fortune in wartime gold, and a soldier caught between two centuries: Roger Johnson's high-velocity adventure races from a Civil War battlefield to a driverless future.Union artillery captain Daniel Hilton is guarding a fortune in wartime gold when a machine out of nowhere tears him from a Civil War battlefield and hurls him a century and a half into the future. There he becomes the captive of Jessica Rothman—a ruthless young tech heiress w...

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - April 2021Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast: A quaint suburban couple rob their dying neighbor to settle an old score.Reach: A businessman travels to China to find the factory worker that left a curious poem in his child's Chrimstas present.Take-Em!: A father invites his liberal son to go duck hunting for quality time.The Ange...

This third edition of Designers’ Guide to Eurocode 4: Design of composite steel and concrete structures – EN 1994-1-1 provides comprehensive guidance in the form of design aids, indications for the most convenient design procedures and worked examples to Eurocode 4.It reveals how to deal with problems that can arise in applying the code and offers background information and references to enable users of the code to understand the origin and objectives of its provision.This ...

In 60 days, you can learn how to connect the power of positivity, retrain your attitude, and manifest the positive shift you desire in your life. Use your authority to speak over your situations when you acknowledge your blessings each morning. Incorporate your 60-day plan of encouraging words to jump-start your day, followed by organized journal prompts to develop your vision and strategy. The creator of this 60-day plan, T.A. Broady, shares the method and approach that helped her preserv...

This volume of Advances in Gender Research gives space and voice to trans peoples’ experiences and interactions with various social institutions, including but not limited to, social media, healthcare and medicalization, the criminal justice system, and the family. The chapters in this volume utilize intersectional approaches, qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and many have clear implications for policy and advocacy for trans and gender diverse people.The first p...

From its very beginning, Christian faith has been engaged with religious violence. The first Christians were persecuted by their co-religionists and then by imperial Rome. Jesus taught them, in such circumstances, not to retaliate, but to be peacemakers, to love their enemies, and to pray for their persecutors. Jesus's response to religious violence of the first century was often ignored, but it was never forgotten. Even during those centuries when the church herself persecuted Christian h...

This book argues that economists need to reengage with societal issues, such as justice and fairness in distribution, that inevitably arise when discussing the basic economic problem of unlimited human wants and finite resources. Approaching the problem through a history of economic thought, Johnson reexamines Adam Smith’s contributions to show how they reach beyond neoclassical models that are too simplistic to reflect the growing interdependencies of market economies. He breaks down supp...