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Impossible crimes—locked rooms, sealed time capsules, the vanishing of a horse and buggy from within a covered bridge—by a master of the fairplay detective story.

Nothing Is Impossible contains 15 of Dr. Sam's most extraordinary cases solved between 1932 and 1936, including a circus acrobat who vanishes from a trapeze; an invisible weapon; murder in a cabin surrounded by unmarked snow; murder in a locked house surrounded by an electrified fence; the attack on a ventriloquist's dummy; a haunted teepee; the vanishing of a teenage girl from her blue bicycle; and eight other ingenious problems for Dr. Sam.

More Things Impossible contains 15 of Dr. Sam's extraordinary cases solved between 1927 and 1931, including an impossible murder in a house that whispers; poisoning by a gargoyle on the courthouse roof; the case of the devil in the windmill; the houseboat that resembles the Mary Celeste; the affair of the vanishing Gypsies; stabbing in the locked cockpit of a plane in midair; a ghostly pirate in a lighthouse; and eight other ingenious riddles.

Northmont, Connecticut, seemed to be haunted by ghosts, ghouls, and impossibilities, until Dr. Sam Hawthorne explained the seemingly impossible. All But Impossible contains fifteen of Dr. Sam's most extraordinary cases solved between 1936 and 1940, including a newly murdered corpse in a sealed tomb in a cemetery; a body in a scarecrow; jug that turns water into wine—poisoned wine; a disappearance from a swimming pool; a baby who becomes a child's doll on the way to being baptized; an unfound door; a room that appears and vanishes; And eight other ingenious problems for Dr. Sam.

Follow Dr. Sam Hawthorne through the war years, a time that he called the beginning of two of the most eventful years of my life. The final collection of Dr. Sam Hawthorne stories covers 1940-1944 and includes 15 stories of impossible crimes. From the death of a Siamese cat in a locked veterinary clinic to the death of a Nazi spy, Dr. Sam explains the mysteries that confront the town of Northmont, Connecticut.

Christmas is a time for giving—not falling down chimneys! Santa’s favorite time of the year is the night before Christmas. Delivering wondrous gifts and making children happy brings warm feelings to his heart. But when he loses his balance on a roof and tumbles down a chimney on his butt, then on his head, he is faced with an incredible dilemma....

Quinn and his band of misfits arrive at the Haven, a world alone in a null universe-a world that cannot exist, and yet does.

With the Damise's AI threatening to absorb both the Consensus and the worlds of Earth-controlled space, Quinn must seek out the ancient and powerful Elinare race with the help of his reanimated son and a ragtag band of allies. Loyalties shift and conspiracies abound in this fast moving third instalment!

The Agantzane—masters of a vast interstellar alliance known as the Consensus. Who are they? Where do they come from? Together with his reanimated son, Conor, Regan Quinn resumes his epic journey, outwitting enemies and forging alliances with enigmatic races before finally coming face to face with the elusive Agantzane. At stake—the future of humanity!

The Shades is the first volume in a four-book epic that will transport you to worlds as diverse as Nemazi--a desert planet wracked by storm fronts of fractured time; Pann--a layered world where civilizations build atop one another; and The Haven--a lone world in a null universe--a world that cannot exist and yet does!

Third in the Channeling Biker Bob series, Renee takes off for the adventure of her life. We spend more time with Melinda, Twig, Stewart and Nick Brown. As usual, between mythical rides in the desert and visits from Biker Bob, the One on One gang work out relationship issues among themselves and with their women.

I’m Thomas Goreman, a big-ass Las Vegas a cop on a mission. I’ll bust those sleeze-ball drug-dealing bikers I’ve been watching for months and get the recognition I deserve. Unfortunately, the bust of a lifetime goes sour and a kilo of coke turns out to be a 1937 Harley oil pump. After that fiasco, I spend the rest of the day in a local bar. Half drunk go home and without meaning to, I beat my wife silly. It’s not a good day. After I make bail, get kicked out of my own house and get suspended from the force I proceed to binge my way through the next few days in a crappy hotel.

Hamlet in Baltimore is a horror about the five-year-old Edgar Poe and his two actor parents being murdered by a vampire. It is a wholly made up fantasy. In reality, Poe's alcoholic father left the family when Poe was one and a half years old, and his mother died of consumption when he was two. Instead, this is a fiction about what formed E.A. Poe's life and work.

Channeling Biker Bob takes us inside the psyche of Stewart Chance, a bewildered "new-age" man who can’t figure out why his sensitivity is neither adored by his wife nor fulfilling to his own sense of manhood. In a delightfully raucous manner, Stewart’s transformation is propelled via a charismatic yet irreverent Harley-riding spirit named Biker Bob.

While James Clayborn, a disillusioned stock broker, tries his hardest to come off as a guru, Tommy the tow truck driver is happy to help stranded motorist during the day, drink beer and watch football at night. The guru and Tommy couldn’t be less alike, nor are they friends, but through a chaotic chain of events they are able to fully realize their unusual skills. Working in tandem they pull the darkness from emotionally disturbed individuals and instantly transform them into fully functioning humans.

For centuries, the star ship AI-Lira served her crew faithfully. She thought of them as her family. When Captain Ramirez received new coded orders, AI-Lira feared it would be their last mission. A mission so unusual, it tested the bonds of the crew’s loyalties.

"Reindeer Games - A Mistletoe Ridge Romance" is a heartwarming tale of love, family, and the magic of Christmas that lasts all year round. When New York City event planner Noelle Parker inherits her uncle's struggling reindeer farm in Alaska, she plans to sell it and return to her busy life. But the charming town of Mistletoe Ridge and the farm's ruggedly handsome manager, Jack Frost, begin to melt her big-city heart.

Best-selling author Jason Oakley’s Amazon vacation turns to a nightmare when his buddy smuggles a sacred gold medallion artifact out of the jungle. The medallion is both the cause of a worldwide pandemic and the only possible hope for a lifesaving vaccine. Whoever owns the cursed medallion has an upper hand at controlling the outcome of the virus and the planet itself. Time is of the essence, and it's running out for Jason.