"Ivan Prashker's Hazardous Pay, Shirt Talk, And Twenty-Four Other Stories is a quietly devastating and beautifully controlled collection that moves from childhood to old age with the assurance of a writer who understands not just narrative craft but emotional consequence. These stories are not built on spectacle. They are built on accumulation of memory, regret, and endurance-and the result is a book that feels both intimate and historically weighty... The war and Holocaust storie...

PRAISE FOR PRASHKER'S DUTY,HONOR, VIETNAM - TWELVE MEN OF WEST POINT..."A fascinating portrait of twelve men who dream of serving andleading our nation, and a unique, penetrating study of one ofAmerica's most important institutions. Ivan Prashker interviewsdeftly and writes with a clarity and precision that give us a freshunderstanding of both. But more importantly he writes witha genuine warmth, sensitivity, and fairness that sweep a...

Enjoy this steamy small-town protector romance by USA Today bestselling author PJ Fiala.He’s a GHOST operative trying to keep the peace.She’s a process server determined to do her job.Together they are caught up in a war neither will back down from.When the job can only be handled by the team that doesn’t exist, you call GHOST.Spencer Lawson has observed the criminal behavior of the people of Hickory Hills Kentucky and knows they ar...

One of the most beloved figures in show business looks back on his life in short comic takes in this delightful memoir."[Carl Reiner] has given us a veritable treasure trove of wonderful recollections, some side-splittingly funny and a few that are really touching. The best one is about me." —Mel Brooks"You can't define genius, but it stands up and shouts from the pages of Carl Reiner's My Anecdotal Life

From the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Oracle Night and 4 3 2 1, an exhilarating, whirlwind tale of one man's accidental redemption.Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, estranged from his only daughter, the retired life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Nathan finds his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, working in a local bookstore—a far cry from the brilliant academic career he'd begun when Natha...

Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction, introduced and edited by Sara ParetskyThe voices here include professional crime solvers who take you from the mean streets of V.I. Warshawski’s Chicago in a case of music and murder . . . to the California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved VW skids into a shooting . . . to the gang-held turf of Sharon McCone’s San Francisco, where an eye ...

The Solve-It-Yourself Mystery MEGAPACK® presents 123 Mysteries you can read in a minute (or two) -- and try to solve yourself! (Just turn to the next page for the solution.) Hours of great fun for the mystery buff!If you enjoy this volume of classic stories, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 270+ other entries in this series, including science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, adventure, horror, westerns -- and much, much more!

Richard Deming (1915-1983) was an American pulp writer who specialised in mystery and detective fiction. In addition to original novels, he found a lucrative niche writing books based on movies TV series (such as Dragnet) and also ghost-wrote no less than ten "Ellery Queen" novels. In addition to numerous stand-alone books and stories, he created series featuring Manville (Manny) Moon and Matt Rudd. This volume provides a great sampling of his work. Included are:HOMICIDE, INC.

TEMPERS FLARE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT……And the wrong move, the wrong word, even the wrong look can set off any man or woman already driven past their boiling point. A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, features 20 stories of people dealing with not just the torrid weather, but all different kinds of heat. From a retired police chief pitching in on a missing dog report that leads to him solving a murder to...

Boston Noir & Boston Noir 2: The Complete Set combines all twenty-five stories from best seller Boston Noir."Dennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys. [Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has left people feeling crushed." --New York Times, on Boston Noir"The contributor list is delight...

Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, actress Lee Grant spent her youth accumulating more experiences than most people have in a lifetime: from student at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse to member of the legendary Actors Studio; from celebrated Broadway star to Vogue “It Girl.” At age twenty-four, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Detective Story, and a year later found herself married and a mother for the first time, her career on the rise.And ...