An atmospheric, entertaining new mystery series introducing a plucky Canadian heroine and set in the world’s most famous hotel.It’s 1968. London is in full swing and the Savoy Hotel is at the height of its legendary glitz and glamour, welcoming the rich, famous and aristocratic into its rarified world of perfection. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are squabbling in the American Bar while Noël Coward drinks champagne. Royals wait upstairs in luxurious suites for...

A charming novel of old Hollywood, first loves, and man with a touch of magicA mysterious young man named Brae Orrack arrives in Venice, California, in 1928, claiming to be a magic man who can turn stones to bees. Brae also comes carrying a curse. He says he will die unless he can find true love---and find it soon. Is he a con man or is he telling the truth? With Brae, it's hard to tell. Like Elwood P. Dowd and Harvey, Brae, with his old-fashioned charm and ease, invites th...

Tree Callister is not much of a private detective.His first client just turned up at the door and he's twelve years old. What's more, the kid has the grand total of seven dollars with which to hire Tree to find his mother.Everyone on Sanibel Island in Florida, where Tree lives, thinks the former newspaper reporter is out of his mind. His only defender is his wife Freddie, and even she has doubts about her husband's new profession.Then a headless body shows up, along...

Check back into London’s posh Savoy Hotel in the swinging sixties where dark forces and murder are uninvited guests—volume 3 in the cheeky series that is now a French bestseller.Everything at London’s Savoy Hotel appears to be the picture of perfection: two Italian princes are checking in and an amorous English lord is taking photographs on the rooftop.But in the Savoy Press Office, it’s a different picture entirely. There, Miss Priscilla Tempest is scrambl...

The rich and famous are converging on the iconic Savoy Hotel in swinging ’60s London—including a famous Broadway producer with anger issues, a demanding Indian raja, and a gorgeous film star with certain kinky predilections. All is as it should be—until the murder of a showgirl threatens to scandalize the hotel.The list of suspects includes Priscilla Tempest, the trouble-prone Canadian head of the Savoy press office. Clearing her name would be easy enough, if only ...

Curse of the Savoy, the fourth in the Priscilla Tempest mystery series, is a gripping tale of suspense set against the backdrop of high society and 1960s London.In the luxurious setting of London’s Savoy Hotel, an opulent dinner party hosted by the legendary filmmaker Orson Welles takes a sinister turn. Amidst the grandeur of the Pinafore Room, fourteen renowned guests, including Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, and the scandalous Miss Christ...

It’s 1968, London is in full swing, and the Savoy Hotel is at the height of its legendary glitz and glamour, welcoming the rich, famous, and aristocratic into its rarified world of perfection. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are squabbling in the American Bar while Noël Coward drinks champagne. Royals wait upstairs in luxurious suites for discreet encounters. All is as it should be at the Savoy. If only it weren’t for the dead body in Room 705. Could it be murder? Impossible! Who could...

The rich and famous are converging on the iconic Savoy Hotel in swinging '60s London—including a famous Broadway producer with anger issues, a demanding Indian raja, and a gorgeous film star with certain kinky predilections. All is as it should be—until the murder of a showgirl threatens to scandalize the hotel. The list of suspects includes Priscilla Tempest, the trouble-prone Canadian head of the Savoy press office. Clearing her name would be easy enough, if only she hadn’t spent the nig...

Est-il un rêve plus doux et plus luxueux qu’un séjour au Savoy, le mythique hôtel de Londres ?Excepté peut-être pour l’extravagante Priscilla Tempest, attachée de presse de l’hôtel, qui semble semer les meurtres partout sur son passage.Quand Miss Kane, une jeune danseuse du cabaret de l’hôtel, est retrouvée morte, étranglée dans les loges à la fin d’une représentation, un nouveau scandale menace l’établissement. Qui a pu commettre un tel crime ? L’assassin n’est peut-être pa...

War across the systems.A lifelong quest to find intelligent life.And—on a harsh, desolate planet—a sentient species, struggling to build a civilization.Stealing the Sun, a space-based Science Fiction series from frequent Analog contributor and bestselling Amazon Science Fiction author Ron Collins---STARGAMESIntergalactic War Is ChaosDeidra Francis: Director of the U...

Transform your chemistry lessons from abstract concepts into engrossing learning experiences that help high school students understand what happens in the world. You can do it with Model-Based Inquiry in Chemistry: Three-Dimensional Instructional Units for Grades 9–12. This book provides a framework to help you engage your students in constructing, critiquing, revising, and testing models to explain real-life phenomena. Model-Based Inquiry in Chemistry is divided into two parts. Section 1 ...

You shouldn’t have to scavenge for high-quality curriculum materials that both center around real-world phenomena and align with A Framework for K–12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards. And now you don’t have to—thanks to Model-Based Inquiry in Biology: Three-Dimensional Instructional Units for Grades 9–12. This book will help you engage your biology students in constructing, critiquing, revising, and testing models to explain how things happen in the world. The bo...