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An elderly rancher is shot to death over a dispute about a hidden treasureJ. Pierce Buchanan has spent a lifetime tearing a living out of the open rangebattling droughts and wildfire, Indians and bandits. At ninety, he has accumulated a fortune in gold piecessome $50,000but he will never get the chance to spend it. In the still of the night, someone sneaks into the old mans bedroom and tortures him at gunpoint in a fearsome attempt to lay his hands on the treasure. When J. Pierce wont speak, someone shoots him five times and disappears into the darkness. Heirs come out of the woodwork demanding a piece of the old mans fortune, as the cowhands and yard men of the ranch scour the thirty-thousand acres searching for the stash. Into this frenzy of greed ride Glen Strange and Bobby Trapp, a pair of honest cowboys just looking for a scrap of work. The J-Bar Ranch has contracted gold fever, and J. Pierce Buchanan will not be the last victim.

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Along a lonely stretch of desert, a bandit robs for revengeThe Chicolote stagecoach is just outside of town when a highwayman tricks the driver into stopping. With a long-barreled hunting rifle, he forces the passengers to hand over their valuables and lifts nearly $30,000 in paper money from the coach before riding into the night. He hides his haul in a cave, keeping only a pair of diamond earrings to give to his beloved. Then he sends the sheriff a note with directions to recover the stash. For Hal Trevor does not want to stealhe simply wants to destroy the stagecoach line.Calvin Poole, the lines owner, made an enemy of Trevor by chasing his wife. When Poole hires the infamous Laredo to track down the mysterious highwayman, kindhearted Trevor becomes the one thing he never wanted to bean outlaw.

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Lost in the Mexican desert, a cowboy stumbles upon a mysterious settlementThe cattle drive was Jakes last chance. After promising a fortune to any man willing to make the long trek across the Mexican border, the ranch boss skipped out at journeys end, leaving Jake Staggs friendless, broke, and far from home. Trudging across the desert, holes in his boots and his horse near death from thirst, Jake smells the unmistakable scent of fresh water. In a lonely gulch he finds lush grass, plenty to drink, and a cabin occupied only by an old man and a madwoman. It is a little piece of paradisebut he will be lucky to get out alive.The gulch is a hideout for a band of horse thieves, and now that Jake has been there, they wont let him leave. He narrowly escapes, but not for long. Before he can go home, Jake must make one last trip into smugglers gulch.

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After two years in jail, a cowboy searches for his sweetheartIts bold for a cowhand to woo his bosss daughter, but John Tanner cant help loving Becky Canasta. Their courtship is upended by Matt Doyle, a spurned admirer who considers Becky to be his propertyand is willing to kill to keep it that way. He is about to have his revenge when Becky draws a small pistol and shoots him through the heart. To save her from the gallows, John takes the blame. He receives only two years in prison for his gallantry. Once freed, he returns to the ranch to see if he still holds Beckys favor, but the place is ransackedand Becky is nowhere to be found. Desperate to save the woman for whom he sacrificed his freedom, John sets off in pursuit of the kidnappers, who are on the trail of a legendary treasure. He must find it first if he ever wants to see Becky alive again.

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In a dusty, far-off way station, trouble finds a retired gunmanVirginia fell in love with Cameron Black as a young girl. The sight of a trained killer with guns on his hips set her heart fluttering. But as the years wore on, she drifted away, unable to bear her worry for him. Years later, after Black rescues Virginia from an Indian attack, she makes him an offer: Hang up your guns and Ill be yours again. Together, they take a job running a lonely stagecoach station in the middle of the open range, hoping to find peace at last. But trouble is not far behind.An outlaw arrives, smuggling $50,000 in stolen gold. His companion is Becky Grant, a debutante on the run from her father. Thieves chase the bandit, marshals hunt Becky, and a storm closes in on the way station. Before it passes, Cameron Black will don his pistols once more.

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The men of a posse on the trail of an outlaw begin to turn on one anotherWhat made Jake Worthy rob his hometown bank? Was it stupidity? Daring? Or did he simply not think the men of Quirt, Arizona, had the skill to catch him? Three days out of Quirt, the group sent after Worthy is coming apart at the seams. The richest man in town is complaining about the hardships of the trail. Alongside him are a couple of greenhorns, a few refugees from the saloon, and a redheaded man whose steely confidence the sheriff simply does not trust. By law, the chase must end at the county linebut Sheriff Fawcett fears the posse is beyond his control.To capture Worthy and retrieve the stolen gold, the men of Quirt will push themselves to the limit, even if it means turning outlaw themselves. 

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An out-of-work lawman rides into the hills in search of a runaway killerBefore he draws his gun, Tom Dyce waits for John Bass to shoot first. He plugs the killer in the stomach but doesnt fire again. A marshals deputy, Tom has never killed a man in cold blood . . . at least, not yet.The confrontation with Bass sours Tom on working for the marshal. Needing a change, he decides to return home to Thibido and the woman he loved long ago, Aurora Tyne. Before he leaves Rincon, the marshal offers him one last assignment: tracking a fugitive bank robber who has fled into the hills outside of Toms hometown. Though he wants nothing to do with bounty hunting, the reward isnt the only thing that draws him to the chase. Auroras life is in danger, and saving her may require murder.

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Framed for murder, an honest man rides over the desert to clear his nameJake Shockley has his feet up in the tavern when his twin comes through the door. The stranger isnt his brother, but may as well be, and Jake sees opportunity therea chance to erase years of warrants and wanted posters with a single quick kill. He lures his lookalike into the alley, knocks him out, and waits until a rider comes along. Jake shoots his twin through the heart and skips town, leaving Giles Clanahan to take the blame.At first, Clanahan is praised for killing the notorious bandit, but when the townspeople realize the dead man isnt Shockley, they sentence Giles to hang. He escapes, and sets out across the desert, planning to bring justice to the man who framed himeven if it means dying in the sand. 

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From the New York Timesbestselling authors of Miracle at Midway: A thrilling account of one of World War IIs most legendary spies.  Richard Sorge was dispatched to Tokyo in 1933 to serve the spymasters of Moscow. For eight years, he masqueraded as a Nazi journalist and burrowed deep into the German embassy, digging for the secrets of Hitlers invasion of Russia and the Japanese plans for the East. In a nation obsessed with rooting out moles, he kept a high profileboozing, womanizing, and operating entirely under his own name. But he policed his spy ring scrupulously, keeping such a firm grip that by the time the Japanese uncovered his infiltration, he had done irreversible damage to the cause of the Axis. The first definitive account of one of the most remarkable espionage sagas of World War II, Target Tokyo is a tightly wound portrayal of a man who risked his life for his country, hiding in plain sight.

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Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon

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Voices from the margins of American life tell tales of trickery, betrayal, sex, and defeat in these short monologues by a spokesman for the unspeakable (New York magazine).   In his full but regrettably brief lifetime, David Wojnarowicz was many things: a visual and performance artist whose radical work incensed the right-wing establishment, a tireless AIDS and anticensorship activist, and, most emphatically, a writer. His Waterfront Journals are a remarkable collection of fictionalized stories spoken in the voices of unforgettable characters the author met during his time spent living on Americas streets and traveling her back roads. The narrators speak from the heart and from the depths of despair, creating an often shocking and powerfully moving mosaic of life in the shadows.   Here are junkies and boy hustlers, truckers and hoboes. A runner tells of his encounter with two drug-using priests who openly and proudly discuss their various sexual exploits. Whores tell of johns who brutalized them and corrupt cops who did the same. A young man relays his tale of a seedy movie balcony pickup and his shocking discovery that his date was not who she seemed. Another man describes sex with an amputee Vietnam veteran. Each of their stories stuns with hard and haunting truths that will leave the reader staggered and breathless, yet exhilarated.   From a Lambda Literary Award winner and the subject of a new documentary by Chris McKim, these are dispatches from that region of dissolute grace at the citys edge (Time Out New York).

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A dozen classic cases featuring the worlds greatest detective This first collection of Sherlock Holmes stories includes many of the consulting detectives best known cases. A Scandal in Bohemia finds Holmes matching wits withand being outfoxed bya beautiful American opera singer named Irene Adler. A struggling shop owner stumbles into a lucrative side job, and a criminal conspiracy, in The Red-Headed League. And in The Adventure of the Speckled Band, which Arthur Conan Doyle named as the best of his Sherlock Holmes stories, our brilliant hero and his loyal friend Dr. Watson pay a visit to a young heiresss bedroom late one night only to stumble across another, far deadlier, visitor.  Other beloved tales collected here include The Five Orange Pips, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, and The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle. Originally appearing in the Strand Magazine, these twelve stories catapulted Holmes and Watson to international fame and established Doyle as one of the most popular and influential mystery writers of all time. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. 

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Holmes and Watson unravel a mystery so exotic it stretches to the very ends of the British Empire After months without a case, the worlds greatest detective is aimless, his only stimulation the daily injection of his drug of choice. Which is it to-day? asks a disapproving Watsonmorphine or cocaine? For a mind as finely tuned as Holmess, the dull routine of existence will not suffice. Thankfully for Holmess health and Watsons anxiety levels, a beautiful young woman soon calls at 221B Baker Street. Ten years ago, Mary Morstans father, a captain of the 34th Bombay Infantry, disappeared from a London hotel. Four years thereafter, Mary began to receive large, lustrous pearls in the mailone per year, always delivered on May 4. Now, six pearls later, Mary is finally about to meet her anonymous benefactor and asks Holmes and Watson to accompany her for safetys sake. The crime they uncoverin which a royal treasure, a diabolical double cross, and a man-eating crocodile all play a partis one of the most thrilling tales Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote, and a crucial chapter in the Sherlock Holmes saga. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. 

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Sherlock Holmess most famous case: An irresistible blend of Gothic horror and intricately plotted mystery The curse of the Baskervilles dates to the seventeenth century, when the wicked Hugo Baskerville chased a farmers daughter across the pitch-dark moor of Grimpen with vile intentions. The poor girl died of fright, but Baskervilles fate was worsea giant black hound, eyes afire and jaws dripping with blood, tore out his throat and devoured it on the spot. Since then, the specter of that terrible beast has haunted Baskerville Hall, many of whose inhabitants have met violent, mysterious, and tragic ends. News of the latest death is brought to 221B Baker Street by a local doctor who hopes that Sherlock Holmes can solve the riddle of the curse before it claims yet another victim or leaves the hall forever empty. Sir Charles Baskerville perished alone on the edge of the moor, his face twisted in fright, the footprints of a gigantic hound marking the ground twenty yards from where his body was discovered. Has the mythical monster returned? Or does some other villain now inhabit the desolate moorlands? Holmes and Watson will be pushed to the very edge of reason as they seek to discover just whoor whatwants to see the Baskervilles destroyed. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. 

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The immortal Sherlock Holmes solves eleven unforgettable mysteriesThese stories, originally published in the Strand Magazine, follow Holmes from the astonishing heights of his deductive powers to the bottom of a treacherous gorge in Switzerland. Silver Blaze, a case that famously hinges on the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, finds the detective employing his singular imagination to locate a missing racehorse. In The Greek Interpreter, Holmes and his brilliant older brother, Mycroft, team up to put an end to a diabolical extortion scheme. And, most notoriously, criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty makes his first appearance in The Final Problem, a story that begins with the discovery of a secret criminal organization overtaking England, and ends on a cliff overlooking the Reichenbach Falls. With a heavy heart, Dr. Watson tells the world what no one wants to hear: Holmes and his archenemy have plunged to their deaths together, locked in mortal combat. This legendary collection, which Arthur Conan Doyle intended to bring a fitting end to the Sherlock Holmes saga, also includes The Musgrave Ritual, The Reigate Puzzle, The Crooked Man, and The Resident Patient. Each of these eleven stories is now recognized as a masterpiece of crime fiction, and a clear indication that the peerless sleuth was not yet ready to leave the stage for good. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. 

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In the last of the Sherlock Holmes novels, the origins of his rivalry with Moriarty are revealedIn London, there is a professor whose income runs to a modest 700 a year, yet in his office hangs a painting worth no less than 40,000. The author of a rarefied mathematical treatise on the dynamics of asteroids, he has twenty different bank accounts and a priestly manner that belies his vicious nature. His name is Moriarty, and he sits at the center of a vast and invisible web of crime. Years before their fateful meeting on the cliffs of the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes vows to put an end to the professors secret reign of terror. A coded message from an informant on the inside of Moriartys organization arrives at 221B Baker Street. No sooner than Holmes and Watson have deciphered the messagea warning that a man named Douglas of Birlstone Manor House is in grave dangerdo they learn that Douglas is dead, his head blown off with an American shotgun. At a moated manor in the South of England, the dead mans widow and best friend hold the keys to a mystery that reaches all the way across the Atlantic and proves just how powerful Moriartys fiendish influence has grown. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. 

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Thirteen tales of crime and intrigue, including the remarkable story of Sherlock Holmess return from the deadIt has been three years since Sherlock Holmes, locked in a fierce struggle with his arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty, disappeared over the edge of the Reichenbach Falls. The world has mourned his loss greatly, no one more so than his good friend and partner in the arts of detection, Dr. Watson. Imagine Watsons shock, then, when an elderly book collector he bumps into on the street turns out to be none other than the master sleuth himself. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Sherlock Holmes did not die in Switzerlandhe vanquished his greatest foe and set a trap for every other would-be mastermind foolish enough to attempt to match wits with the worlds greatest detective. From the astonishing revelation in the opening paragraphs of The Adventure of the Empty House to the motiveless murder at the heart of The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez to the kidnapping that sets in motion the plot of The Adventure of the Priory School, these thirteen classic stories are among the most entertaining and endlessly clever entries in the canon of Sherlock Holmes. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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The residents of a South London street face World War II together in this novel from the New York Timesbestselling author of The Dreaming Suburb. Years ago, the Great War tore apart the lives of the families living on Manor Park Avenue in South London. Now, as Allied and Axis armies rage across Europe in an even more devastating conflict, the residents of the Avenue struggle to cope with the sacrifices England must make as their nations place in the world irrevocably changes.   Longtime homeowner Jim Carver, who lives in Number Twenty, had his fill of combat in the trenches of France more than twenty years ago. But when the Luftwaffe rains death from above on his beloved street, he dedicates himself to the war effort.   Carvers eldest son, Archie, has come a long way from grocers errand boy to owner of a chain of successful shops. His illicit affair with a neighbor whose husband is fighting for King and Country threatens to undo everything he has achieved.   Esther Frith lives a solitary life in Number Seventeen, seemingly oblivious to the aerial onslaught ravaging the Avenue now that the war has turned her family into casualties.   And across the road at Number Twenty-Two, reclusive Harold Godbeer hates what the war is doing to his country. He realizes that even if England succeeds in helping defeat the Axiss tyrannical dictators, his nation will be but a shadow of its former glory.   Living side by side as their neighborhood becomes a battleground, two generations of Manor Park Avenue must unite if theyand their way of lifeare to survive during wartime, in this moving novel about the connections we forge during times of trouble, which was also adapted for British television.  

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The #1 bestselling author of the blockbuster thrillers Airport and Hotel takes on the world of high finance: Cliched, lurid and utterly absorbing (Philip Hensher, The Guardian). Ben Roselli, president of First Mercantile American Bank and grandson of the founder, makes the shocking announcement that hes dying. With no offspring to inherit the company, Roselli knows that executive VPs Roscoe Heyward and Alex Vandervoort are the obvious candidates to succeed him. Heyward, who has been with First Mercantile for two decades, will do whatever it takes to bring in new clients and win the coveted presidency. Vandervoort, a newcomer from the Federal Reserve with a left-wing girlfriend, advocates for a socially responsible plan of growth. And now the discovery of counterfeit cash and credit card fraud threatens the future of the bank itself. From the day-to-day business dealings to the inner sanctums of the money trading center and the boardroom, Haileys novel is a riveting tale of ambition, greed, and the US banking system.

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Between the wars, the lives of four neighboring English families intersect in this highly recommended saga by a New York Timesbestselling author (Sunday Express). In the spring of 1919, his wifes death brings Sergeant Jim Carver home from the front. He returns to be a single parent to his seven children in a place he has never lived: Number Twenty, Manor Park Avenue, in a South London suburb.   The Carvers neighbor Eunice Fraser, at Number Twenty-Two, has also known tragedy. Her soldier husband was killed, leaving her and her eight-year-old son, Esme, to fend for themselves.   At Number Four, Edith Clegg takes in lodgers and looks after her sister, Becky, whose mind has been shattered by a past trauma.   No one knows much about the Friths, at Number Seventeen, who moved to the Avenue before the war.   The first book in the two-part historical series the Avenue, which also includes The Avenue Goes to War, The Dreaming Suburb takes readers into the everyday lives of these English families between World War I and World War II, as their hopes, dreams, and struggles are played out against a radically changing world.

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R. F. Delderfield concludes his bestselling A Horseman Riding By saga of twentieth-century England with a novel that follows the Craddock family through the end of World War II and the challenges of a new eraPaul Craddocks village in rural Devon has endured despite the heartbreak and sorrows of war. The landowner and his family have also known their share of loss. But now, as England struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II, he and his wife, Claire, and their children confront new perils. With his livelihood threatened by emerging property laws and his family divided over the future of his beloved Shallowford estate, Craddock struggles to preserve his legacy. For his sons and daughter, the fifties and sixties will be a time of discovery and change that will resonate in the lives of their own children.  The final novel in Delderfields magnificent trilogy pays tribute to the courage and unflagging optimism of British villagers trying to keep step with modern times even as they cling to the traditions of a bygone world.The Green Gauntlet is the third novel in R. F. Delderfields saga A Horseman Riding By, which begins with Long Summer Day and continues with Post of Honour.