Calgary has seen a lot in its relatively short history.Residents have endured conflicts, challenges, epidemics, explosions, and floods. The 1988 Winter Olympics, the Calgary Zoo, and the Hart wrestling dynasty put the city on the world stage.Into all these moments saunters a little grey cat with odd eyes, a curiously expressive tail, and too many toes, touching Calgarians and changing their lives.This composite nove...

Młoda guwernantka Violet Hunter zwraca się do mistrza detektywa Sherlocka Holmesa i jego przyjaciela Dr. Watson o pomoc. Jej nowy pracodawca, pan Charles Rucastle, zachowuje się tak tajemniczo, że podejrzewa ona popełnienie przestępstwa. Dlatego Holmes i Watson udają się do mrocznej willi Krwawa Bukowina i odkrywają zagrażające życiu wydarzenia, które potwierdzają straszne przypuszczenia panny Violet.

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are sudden...