— With only a brash waterfront urchin as crew, Pete sets sail in his old schooner, pursued by the "tall one: in a radar-equipped yacht. — Outwitting the enemy in a storm, they find the prize guarded by a monster octopus, and the menacing black yacht again on their trail.

    An accolade to the British Special Boat Service (SBS), a commando force of some 300 men that inflicted great damage on the enemy in the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas during World War II.

    In colonial Salem he finds Roxanna Reil, half French and half Puritan - proud, bold, beautiful - and the talk (some would say the scandal!) of that staid salt-water town.Roxanna had survived the Reign of Terror in France only through a daring mind and an unconventional approach to the facts of life. She knows what she wants now. Her sun-struck hair makes Jason think of the Golden Fleece that another Jason searched for, and he loves her with mountain intensity and directness.When Roxana disappears at sea, Jason sets out to find her. The faint trail begins at the pirate court of Algiers, then moves further into th emysterious East. He becomes, to all appearances, another renegade from the West, willing to fight and kill in exchange for loot. Playing his part to the hilt, he covets blue-eyed Lilith, a fiery and beautiful Circassian, and she is both a solace and a problem for him.

    They were waiting to welcome her. The servant, who avoided her gaze but could not mask a bitter hatred, the beautiful woman with sugar-coated venom on her tongue, and the towering figure of the master of the manor, so powerful yet so tragically flawed, his brutal manner in such contrast with the secret pain in his eyes.She had come home, yet she came as a stranger, remembering nothing. In her loneliness and fear, she knew only one thing. From the abyss of the past, evil was reaching out to claim her again.

    The ambitious District Attorney or the campaigning publisher of the Rockville Gazette, with their faith in fingerprints and lie-detectors, might think Bill Eldon dated, but he knows Rockville district inside out.In 'The Case of the Runaway Blonde' the body of a girl is found on a freshly ploughed strip of land. And in 'The Case of the Hungry Horse' a young woman has apparently been kicked to death in a dark stable . . .This is Bill's territory, and it is his feel for cornspun characters, cattle and crops - and not the manoeuvres of the smart lawyers and politicos - that crucial to deciphering both cases.

    The professor wanted to study the Hogbens… to figure out their mysteries…

    JamesGlory Hand by August DerlethThe Lady’s Maid’s Bell by Edith WhartonThe Shadows by Henry S. WhiteheadOut of the Eons by Hazel HealdThe Jar by Ray BradburyThe Bully of Chapelizod", by Joseph Sheridan Le FanuOver the River by P. Schuyler MillerCarnaby’s Fishby Carl JacobiThe Painted Mirror by Donald WandreiThe Double Shadow by Clark Ashton SmithThe Ocean Leech by Frank Belknap LongAmina by Edward Lucas WhiteFarewell Performance by H. Russell WakefieldOne Way to Mars by Robert BlochOut of the Picture by Arthur MachenThe Canal by Everil WorrellThe Postman of Otford by Lord DunsanyDeaf, Dumb, and Blind by C. M. Eddy, Jr.Spider Bite by Robert S. CarrBrenner’s Boy by John MetcalfeMr. Lupescu by Anthony BoucherMasquerade by Henry KuttnerSeventh Sister by Mary Elizabeth CounselmanIn Amundsen’s Tent by John Martin LeahyMan in a Hurry by Alan NelsonThe Last Pin by H. W. GuernseyThe Doll by Algernon BlackwoodThe Tool by William F. HarveyThe Dreams in the Witch-House by H. P. Lovecraft

    Equatorial Africa, as well-hated Consul Mallery is found dead in a gorilla's oage. His young assistant, in trying to keep peace with Washington, the British, the French and the substitute Consul, gets dizzier when an FEI investigator is killed, but manages to unwind when infiltration plots and characters are. [Kirkus Reviews]