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A movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a pair of Siberian Husky siblings with a shared secret lure private eye Lucius Anoraq into the less than glamorous and more than a little dangerous world of Hollywood fame.

Two missing wives—one rich and one poor. One of them may have gotten a divorce and married a gigolo, and the other may be dead. Lucius Anoraq’s not sure he cares about either one, but he’s not paid to care.

Lucius Anoraq is hired by a wealthy Pasadena widowed emu with a mean streak to find a missing daughter-in-law who stole a gold coin worth a small fortune. Only things don’t quite add up until Anoraq discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and exploitation.

Lucius Anoraq is about to give up on a completely routine case. That is until he ends up in the wrong place at the right time and gets caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, a fortune-teller, corruption, and multiple murders.

Kaiser is a dangerous tiger to call friend. But, if you're murdered, he will avenge your death. Join him for his last four cases.

Private Detective Kaiser Wrench slugs it out with a two-timing, still-luscious ex-Hollywood cougar, who’s using everything she’s got, to block the trail of a vicious killer.

Kaiser Wrench’s voluptuous, long-lost love and lynx is alive and targeted by the infamous assassin known as the Chimera.

A kidnapping case leads Kaiser Wrench into a 14-year-old mystery and the sights of the most diabolical killer the clawed private eye has ever faced.

Playing protector to a runaway puppy-faced poodle, Kaiser Wrench trades barbs and lead with crooked politicos, snarling hoods, and a sex-hungry female.

The doe was desperate, terrified, and out of her mind. Now she’s dead. Acting as an avenging angel, Private Detective Kaiser Wrench heads into an underground urban nightmare.

Private Detective Kaiser Wrench finds a dead vixen who has been beaten to death. He tries to stay out of it until he gets a note from someone he put in prison asking him to take the case. A reporter friend has stumbled onto a clue, but dies with a handkerchief in his hand trying to get the information to him. So begins a complicated and baffling case involving the sadistic deaths of other females trying to break into the fashion industry. Can Kaiser, with the help of his beloved Velvet, break the ring that is crushing the lives of vulnerable females?

Private Detective Kaiser Wrench is on the prowl for international spies, on the lookout for military secrets, and on the make with a treacherous society mink too tempting for her own good.

He was a nice cheetah. Now he's dead. Kaiser Wrench suspects murder, while the cops are calling it a suicide. Without a license or a gun, Wrench is pushing his way through a swirl of sex-and-game clubs, high priced models, and not just a little blackmail. Someone is working hard to frame Wrench and he’s working hard to find out why. Everywhere he turns, he keeps coming up against a beautiful tigress named Viola. She holds the key to the crime wave that could unlock the mystery behind the nice cheetah’s murder...

Private detective Kaiser Wrench is determined to catch and kill the person who shot his close friend dead. A beautiful, seductive tigress is one of the suspects. As he follows clues, the body count rises.

Private Detective Kaiser Wrench comes to the rescue of a prostitute. The next day, the papers say she’s dead from a hit and run. Her missing ring is the only thing he has to go on that proves she was murdered.

Kaiser is a dangerous tiger to call "friend". But, if you're murdered, he will avenge your death. Join him in the next four cases.

A bloody massacre. A looming civil war. Can two opposed gryphons work together to save their kind? Zeph thrills at the wind in his wings and the hunt for wild parrot. As a simple forest gryphon, he never thought much about his sophisticated city-dwelling cousins living in the lofty eyrie at the edge of the woods. But, his carefree life turns upside down when he comes across a young city gryphon stunned by her discovery of a field littered with slaughtered animals.

Before the pandemic, I routinely ignored my natural musings as I hypnotically traveled down the road. During the pandemic, I deliberately gathered these words and thoughtfully trimmed and polished them, before forging them in the furnace. This book is a collection of those aphorisms.

Centuries after a devastating meteor strike reshaped the Earth, humanity struggles to rebuild from the ashes. Magic, unleashed by the cataclysm, now weaves through a fractured North America, creating empires from ruins and monsters from shadows. In the North, freedom survives only through fragile alliances between independent city-states, guarded by the immortal wizard Draco Lobo and his elusive order of warriors. But peace shatters as a ruthless enemy marches from the South.

Nighteyes has been trapped inside the Emerald Veil for two years. After an attempt to use her gryphons to assassinate the king, the pridelord closed off all communication with outsiders. Two years have passed, and now gryphlets are dying left and right from a disease that the rest of the world may already have a cure for. Along the jungle’s edge, a single starling has been tasked with stopping the silver-eyed from infecting the rest of the jungle.