Product Description: In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric values, were celebrated by forward-looking critics who argued for music as a fine art, a component of modern, polite, and commercial culture, rather than a symbol of institutional power...read more

Product Description: World War II is raging, but in this dusty backwater of the Belgian Congo, the most pressing problem is finding a cold beer. That's the case at least for Hooper Talliaferro, a genial U.S. government flunkey sent to Africa on a vague errand related to the war effort...read more

Hooper Taliaferro and Dr. Mary Finney hunt for a killer when the demi-monde of a Parisian nightclub frequented by gigolos, prostitutes, expatriates, and wealthy older women looking for excitement erupts in murder