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...

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...

In "A Memoir of the Late Lewis David von Schweinitz, P.D," Walter Rogers Johnson delves into the life and contributions of the eminent mycologist Lewis David von Schweinitz. The book is a rich tapestry of biographical detail, scientific inquiry, and posthumous admiration, framed within a narrative style that weaves personal anecdotes with scholarly analysis. Johnson'Äôs prose reflects a blend of reverence and critical reflection, contextualizing von Schweinitz's work within the broader sco...

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...

When US Navy Commander Roger Johnson happened upon a 1919 Parliamentary transcript dealing with the near sinking of a British man-of-war called the King James, he at first gave it only passing thought—until he came across the words to a sailors’ ballad entitled “Fifteen Men on a Dead Man’s Chest,” and a description of events that matched in every detail the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.Dead Man’s Chest is a classic pirate yarn that begi...

In the summer of '23, the only thing more dangerous than the secrets hidden beneath the sea are the people who want them.Rachel and the Aviators is a high-octane thriller where a sun-drenched South Jersey summer becomes a deadly battleground of espionage, smuggling, and survival. For three young banner pilots, "Gull Island" is just a place to fly for fun. But when the mysterious and beautiful Rachel arrives, she brings with her a world of covert operations and a deadly secret hidde...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

This book provides an introduction to the theory and design of composite structures of steel and concrete. Material applicable to both buildings and bridges is included, with more detailed information relating to structures for buildings. Throughout, the design methods are illustrated by calculations in accordance with the Eurocode for composite structures, EN 1994, Part 1-1, ‘General rules and rules for buildings’ and Part 1-2, ‘Structural fire design’, and their cross-references to ENs 1...