Win Szczedziwoj, a man known for photographing subjects in the rain, is on a vacation. Just him, his camera, his canoe, and a small, dark lake well away from civilization.That solitude comes to an end when his fishing line drags up a body from the lake. It looks like the usual canoeing accident, but the police suspect murder, and Win is suspect number one (I mean, what are the chances of actually snagging a body with a fishing line?)But Win wants to know why the dead guy was ...

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.Inspector Ian McFergus had not been satisfied; not in the least satisfied. He had inspected Marley's body using all the due processes and checklists upon which the polic...

Tony just wants to write another travel guide for canoeists. His plans to head into Massasauga Provincial Park alone begin to unravel at the dock when a good-looking woman talks him into taking her with him.He doesn't know about the hungry bear at the campsite, or the man with the rifle and the guy with the B-52 determined to interrupt his plans.

There are a lot of wonderful songs to which the happy couple can dance at their wedding reception, but sometimes a wedding party will want something less overused, or an additional song or two for an additional dance or two. This little book of lyrics provides some new songs, sung to traditional tunes such as "Green Grow the Lilacs".The book contains the lyrics, and gives you information on how to get the music.

Did you ever want to write a novel, or even a novella, but the generation of a viable plot and the creation of characters and motives seem like an insurmountable task? Well, this little set of instructions can be an invaluable start. It analyzes the basics of Agatha Christie's novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (her first Hercule Poirot novel, which now in public domain), and shows how you and amend, tweak, or change her characters, her overall plot, and the basic plot twist to create ...

Amundi, jester to Denmark's King Claudius, has a slew of problems. Just when tensions at their maximum because of an imminent threat of invasion by Norwegians, Prince Hamlet returns to Elsinore Castle, more than a little upset that his mother has married her brother-in-law. It's a rough time to be a jester. Worse yet, Amundi has his own problems, particularly a love affair that seems certain to land him in the torture room. In spite of that, he does his best to stay alive in a milieu in wh...

Here are eighteen odd poems about canoeing, including Jesus in a canoe and how, at a campfire at night, the trees seem to touch the stars.

Poems for when the words stop and you start leaving footprints in the ashes.

For people who have read the novel, Marley Was Dead, and have questions, this is a short, helpful guide.Marley Was Dead is linked to Dickens's A Christmas Carol, but the descriptions of mid-Victorian London are more fascinating than the mystery, This guide answers some questions about the sociology of the book, including the mud larks, markets, and daily mayhem of the city. For example, being a mud lark, sifting through the mud of the Thames with bare feet for lost items, was indeed...

This is a basic guide to current proposals for reversing global warming and climate change using technology.It does not deal with reducing your carbon footprint or the consequences of global warming. Rather, it concentrates on ideas such as solar radiation management schemes and carbon sequestering.Both the benefits can hazards of each scheme are described.Updated to August of 2012.

This little guide tells you how colons and semicolons can be used and abused. It notes that "nobody's going to hang you for a comma splice." But it does drift into the part where the rules wander into that dark borderland between logic and outright silliness. And it includes a picture from a plastic privy in Maine.

A 300-line poem about a man who decides to visit such a graveyard in October near midnight, in hopes of seeing a ghost. He stumbles across the field as a storm approaches.I've got to tell you that he sees only parts of what might be a ghost - not a very satisfying result, and then retreats to his car.That's all.Yet this is one of the finest and most affecting modern poems for reading out loud. It will haunt you.