A gal with a serious Ben & Jerry's habit and credits that include a tome entitled "I Was Henry Kissinger's Sex Slave" can't afford to be too picky about employment. So when a Beverly Hills socialite offers Jaine Austen megabucks to ghostwrite a book of hostess tips, it's time to sharpen the #2s. Pride doesn't feed the cat (and Jaine's furry roommate, Prozac, eats more than the average kitty). But everything short circuits when Jaine finds her employer floating face down in her tub, fried by her own blow dryer. Available only in Mystery 4.

Agreeing to write jokes for Dorcas, a struggling stand-up comic, Jaine Austen discovers that murder is the punchline when Dorcas's rival, a heckler named Vic, is strangled with one of her props--a pair of pantyhose.

When her new friend Pam, an aspiring actress, invites her to join the PMS Club, a woman's support group, Jaine Austen discovers that murder is on the agenda when Marybeth, an interior decorator who is having an affair with the husband of another PMS member, falls victim to a clever killer.

Presents fourteen profiles of important and influential performers of country and western music, including the Carter Family, Roy Acuff, Gene Autry, Bill Monroe, Patsy Cline, and Loretta Lynn. By the creators of Shake, Rattle and Roll: The Founders of Rock and Roll.

Finding herself at her friend Lance's favorite boutique thanks to his efforts to update her fashion sense, freelance writer-turned-sleuth Jaine Austen gets a job writing the shop's new magazine ads, but when she arrives for work the next day, she finds one of the staff dead, stabbed in the neck by one of her own stilettos.

While ghostwriting a book of hostess tips for a Beverly Hills socialite, Jaine Austen gets up-close and personal with murder when her employer is found dead and the woman's stepdaughter, a shy, insecure girl, stands accused of the crime. Reprint.

An introduction to the pioneers of rock-and-roll music highlights the careers of fourteen artists who, nearly fifty years ago, created a brand-new sound and changed the course of popular music forever. Reprint.

When savvy scribe Jaine Austen is hired by nerdy Howard Murdoch to pen a love letter to gorgeous aerobics instructor Stacy Lawrence, she gets caught up in a murder investigation when Stacy is found beaten to death and Howard is accused of the crime. Reprint.

Describes in pictures and words a variety of zany wigs and the people who wear them. Based on a song by the B-52s.

Product Description: In 1597 anti-theatricalist Stephen Gosson made the curious remark that theatre 'effeminized' the mind. Four years later Phillip Stubbes claimed that male actors who wore women's clothing could literally 'adulterate' male gender and fifty years after this in a tract which may have hastened the closing of the theatres, William Prynne described a man whom women's clothing had literally caused to 'degenerate' into a women...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A compelling and lavishly ilustrated biography of the band that created "alternative rock," R.E.M.: Behind the Mask presents the definitive chronicle of R.E.M.'s career: a history of the group, interviews with its members, a detailed chronology of recording sessions and concerts, and more...read more

A satire on guides of eligible bachelors describes the habits, professions, likes, and dislikes of unappealing and weird men