202 pages ; 24 cm A takeoff on private eye novels by the author of Ham on Rye. In Los Angeles, PI Nick Belane is hired by Lady Death to find out if the man she spotted in a bookstore is the dead French writer, Celine,...

xviii, 518 p., 21 x 16 cm

CONTENTS:     2 • Children of the Bat • [Jules de Grandin] • novelette by Seabury Quinn    25 • The Dead Moan Low • shortstory by Paul Ernst    35 • The Woman in Room 607 • [Peters & Ethredge] • novelette by Thorp...

779 pages ; 24 cm The Guardian called Alastair Reynolds' work "a turbulent, wildly entertaining ride" and The Times acclaimed him as "the mastersinger of space opera". With a career stretching back more than 25 years ...

1 online resource (282 pages) The sixth in a series of fantasy novels that influenced J.R.R. Tolkien

The story is set up in a region of a fictional world strongly resembling Western Europe during the Inter-war period. Wireless communication does not exist nor do fully automatic weapons, and semiautomatic firearms are...