Product Description: When Mike Torlin takes on the job of investigating the strange happenings at Pete Donati's carnival ground, he figures it's a straightforward case of somebody wanting to put Donati out of business. Then a peculiar chicken is produced out of an egg: a dead girl, shot with slugs from her own shooting gallery...read more

Product Description: Soon after moving into Mexton Grange, an old Georgian country house in the Cotswolds, Alice hears disquieting stories and rumours about her new abode: the previous owners had been driven out by a strange, oppressive atmosphere in the house...read more

Product Description: The midnight moon rode high and the house seemed to transmute the moonlight into something terrible. The broken chimneys stretched up like hands to the heavens, the eyeless sockets of the windows staring intently along the twisting drive...read more

Product Description: Five chilling tales: a family's history is traced back for four centuries - with no instance of a death recorded... The tale of an aunt who wanders out to the graveyard each night... A manor house is built on cursed land, perpetuating the evil started there long ago...read more

Product Description: Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia of the Alkaloids covers the literature to the end of October 1976 and includes a large number of these compounds which have been discovered since the first two volumes were published in 1975. There are some entries where recent work has resulted in new structures being put forward or where additional details regarding compounds have been provided...read more

The ghost town of Mender's Crossing was the ideal base for a gang of outlaws to operate from without interference. Then, a group of soldiers are killed defending a gold-train and the army calls upon special operator Steve Landers to investigate. Now, Landers must face not only the gang but land baron Hal Clegg, whose hired mercenaries are driving independent ranchers off their land. He will need nerves of steel if he is to succeed when he is so heavily outnumbered. Can he cheat the odds and win?

Product Description: In Sharky Dexter's casino in Los Angeles, a man beats the crooked roulette wheel and wins a million dollars! When Sharky hires Johnny Merak to find the man who's taken his money there's a spate of murders with Johnny himself a candidate for death.

Product Description: LA private investigator Johnny Merak accepts the diminutive Charles Henning as his client, little realising the danger he will face. When a series of brutal gangland murders begins, Lieutenant O'Leary is not pleased to find Merak at each of the murder scenes.

Product Description: In Los Angeles, the wealthy Marcia Edwards asks investigator Johnny Merak to find her missing grandson. Merak suspects it's a mob kidnapping. There's someone else who wants to hire him: the model Angela Cliveden, who has been receiving life-threatening phone calls...read more

Product Description: On the lonely moor stands five ancient headstones, where a church points a spectral finger at the sky. The de Ruys family are buried there, the last of whom died 300 years ago leaving the manor house deserted. Until Angela de Ruys comes from America, claiming to be a descendent of the old family...read more

Product Description: Simon Merrivale owns a mask and headdress, and the legend is that whoever comes into contact with them will find their body taken over by the long-dead Shaman at full moon. Merrivale is dragged from his home, and he and the relics are taken to an isolated mansion...read more

Product Description: Dark forces are at work in Redforde. Something terribly old and infinitely evil has woken...something that is thirsty for blood. There are rumours of human sacrifice, devil worship and the extinct de Vernis family. The dead walk and the moors, woods, the village and the church ooze evil like a sore...read more

Product Description: She was the kind of woman a man noticed, mostly because of her eyes. Deep and dark, they had held a warmth which could easily kindle into a fire. Now they were staring sightlessly from the sidewalk. A killing without a motive, the first of a string of murders that led Johnny Merak, private investigator, from the teeming underworld of Chicago and Los Angeles to the edge of the New Mexico desert, trailing a killer who left no clues...read more

Product Description: including: BRIAN BALL, SYDNEY J. BOUNDS, JOHN GLASBY Plus other classic stories by FREDERICK H. CHRISTIAN and E. C. TUBB. Complete novel, CLIMATE INCORPORATED, by John Russell Fearn.

Product Description: The 1996 Community Care (Direct Payments) Act came into force in 1 April 1997, empowering social services departments to make cash payments to some service users in lieu of direct service provision. Social work and direct payments guides readers through the issues at stake in this fundamental area of practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)