"A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerisms, appearance, and every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his …
It was eight years since Patrick had vanished leaving his pitiful note, 'I'm sorry but I can't bear it any longer. Don't be angry with me, Patrick.' Now it seemed he had returned-- just in time toclaim the family inheritance.
Brat poses as an heir to the Ashby fortune and becomes more involved in family affairs than he wishes.
A young English orphan who tries to pass himself off as the rightful heir in a horse-breeding family goes through a process of regeneration as he unfolds a murder mystery.
When Jaine Austen is hired by nerdy Howard Murdoch to pen a love letter to gorgeous aerobics instructor Stacy Lawrence, she gets caught up in a murder investigation when Stacy is found beaten to death and Howard is accused of the crime.
Anita travels to Sante Fe to help Edward track down a evil that not only kills, but keeps flayed victims alive by magic. Almost as frightening is watching Edward, using his pseudonym, "Ted Forrester", to court a widow with two kids and pursue the good 'ol boy life.
"" With a foreword by James Randi Paranormal investigator Joe Nickell has spent more than thirty years solving the world's most perplexing mysteries. This new casebook reveals the secrets of the Winchester Mystery House, the giant Nazca drawings of Peru, the Shroud of Turin, the…
"" With a foreword by James Randi Paranormal investigator Joe Nickell has spent more than thirty years solving the world's most perplexing mysteries. This new casebook reveals the secrets of the Winchester Mystery House, the giant Nazca drawings of Peru, the Shroud of Turin, the…
Takes a scientific approach to paranormal mysteries, taking readers on a series of case studies including the supposed hauntings known as the "Amityville horror" in New York, employing forensic and investigative techniques to their analysis.
Today, as in the time of the South Sea Bubble, human nature is drawn like a moth to flame by the speculative fads of the marketplace. The excitement of new glamour issues in electronics or medical technology, the general euphoria over a rising market; these lure even many experi…
"Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation," said author Charles Mackay. It was true then in 1841, and it is certainly true now. This info…