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A Little Boy is Missing
0Original price was: $2.99.$1.99Current price is: $1.99.A Little Boy Is Missing follows Holocaust survivor and former philosophy professor Frank Wolf, now a Brooklyn private eye, as he investigates the disappearance of a young boy in Williamsburg.
Navigating a world shaped by faith, trauma, and mistrust of outside authority, Wolf and his grandson confront both cultural secrecy and painful memories to solve the case. As the hours slip away, the search reveals as much about the community’s buried wounds as it does about the crime itself.
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An Exchange of Gifts
0Original price was: $2.99.$1.99Current price is: $1.99.When Meanne, a princess of the realm, runs away from her father’s castle and an unwanted suitor, little does she realize the hardships and difficulties that lie ahead of her. Loneliness is the worst part — until she finds a fellow refugee, a boy named Wisp. Together they must make new lives for themselves. Yet they both have secrets — hidden pasts and magical powers that can tear them apart!
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Charlie Chan in The Pawns of Death
0Original price was: $2.99.$1.99Current price is: $1.99.“Checkmate!” That was the last word uttered to Charlie Chan and Prefect of Police Claude DeBevre by a dying reporter. The man had been murdered . . . stabbed to death and left to die in a vacant hotel room.
It is the second murder in 24 hours at the Transcontinental Chess Tournament, and Charlie Chan has been summoned from a peaceful and long-deserved vacation to help solve the crime before international scandal ruins the tournament’s good name!
Originally published in Charlie Chan’s Mystery Magazine in 1974.
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Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint
0Original price was: $2.99.$1.99Current price is: $1.99.Through a mishap in Professor Bulfinch’s laboratory, Danny accidentally creates an anti-gravity paint. The natural use, of course, is for a spaceship — the paint can replace rockets to get the ship into space. Unfortunately, the spaceship is launched prematurely after Danny and Joe follow Professor Bulfinch and Dr. Grimes on a tour of the ship.
A mechanical failure dooms the four to a one-way trip out of the Solar System — unless they can repair the spaceship in time!
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Dressed to Kill
0Original price was: $2.99.$1.99Current price is: $1.99.Kip Carver isn’t just a state police lieutenant—he’s the one they call when a case goes sideways. A wealthy industrialist’s son has vanished, and the only clues are cryptic messages, a crate of homing pigeons, and a father’s guilt.
Why would anyone kidnap a spoiled twenty-year-old—and why is Kip the only one who seems to care?
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Green Phoenix
0Original price was: $2.99.$1.99Current price is: $1.99.Prior to the dawn of human history, the Earth did not belong solely to humanity — there were other intelligent species still fighting a last-stand battle against extinction.
Remembered today only in legend, these are creatures of the trees and water, beings that combined beast and man, with strange lore of their own and sciences lost to the human victors.
GREEN PHOENIX is a tour-de-force of the final stronghold of the prehumans against the last legion of fallen Troy.
“He writes his own golden thing his own way…” –Theodore Sturgeon, The New York Times
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Halcyon Drift: Hooded Swan
0Original price was: $2.99.$1.99Current price is: $1.99.In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, starship pilots have become the great romantic heroes of the day.
When Star-Pilot Grainger is rescued from a shipwreck, he finds himself pressed into reluctant service to fly the Hooded Swan, the prototype of a new kind of interstellar ship. He’s also picked up an alien parasite that’s determined to share his brain. Under these dire circumstances, can Grainger possibly stay out of trouble? Not a chance!
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Horrors Three!
0Original price was: $2.99.$1.99Current price is: $1.99.From supernatural vengeance to spectral bureaucracy, this trio of chilling tales from the golden age of pulp fiction delves into humanity’s darkest fears.
In “Pursuit,” a man finds himself relentlessly hunted by a force beyond comprehension—one that twists time and reality.
“Hereafter, Inc.” presents a biting satire where the business of death becomes a corporate nightmare, exposing the absurdity lurking beneath modern life.
Finally, “The Coppersmith” spins a slow-burning ghost story set in a quiet town, where a newcomer uncovers a horrifying local secret—one tied to a long-forgotten craft and a spirit that refuses to rest.
Unearthing themes of guilt, bureaucracy, and malevolence, each story delivers tightly woven suspense wrapped in the classic tones of mid-century horror. A must-read collection for fans of eerie atmospheres, moral ambiguity, and vintage psychological dread.
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Meat for Murder: A Lieutenant Tuck Mystery
0Original price was: $2.99.$1.99Current price is: $1.99.The setting: Hollywood.
The year: 1943.
When death strikes at the austere, castle-like home of Earl Falkoner, an erratic designer of Hollywood sets and a would-be playwright, his hired writers and hired help—not to mention his dogs, his massive bodyguards, and his lady friends—become enmeshed in a chesslike game. Who is the killer? Luckily Lieutenant Tuck, with the able assistance of policewoman Brigit, is on the case to sort out clues.
“Wonderful. I can only add: Don’t miss it.” —Albuquerque Tribune
“Everything about the book is fantastic, but if you like to lose yourself among fantastic people, this is the mystery for you.” —Birmingham News
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Napoleon Disentimed
0Original price was: $2.99.$1.99Current price is: $1.99.The MacNair of MacNair, conman extraordinaire, pulled into a parallel universe by desperate revolutionaries …
finds his life endangered by madmen of every stripe … desperately jumping from universe to universe and century to century, on the run from berserk Emperors, secret policemen, vengeful wives, and maddened doppelgangers, the supremely unruffled MacNair still finds time to save an empire, marry an heiress, and invent the two hallmarks of modern civilization, the indoor flush toilet and French Champagne! [Book 1 of the Orgone Time Travel Universe]
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No One Noticed The Cat by Anne McCaffrey
0Original price was: $2.99.$1.99Current price is: $1.99.After the death of wise old Mangan, the Regent of Esphania, many of the regent’s skills and qualities seem to have been transferred to his beautiful and intelligent cat, Niffy, who at once attaches herself to the new ruler, Prince Jamas.
When the king of a neighbouring kingdom seems keen to forge an alliance with Jamas by allowing the prince to marry his niece, the real danger is Yasmin, the wicked queen wife, who poisons everyone she dislikes or suspects of interfering with her ambitions.
Now, Niffy must guide Jamas through a thicket of difficulties to save the Prince Jamas from a horrible fate!
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Play it Again, Sam
0$0.99Holloway is a programmer, but not of computers—of reality itself.
He works in a celestial front office where history is meticulously planned and executed by staff wielding pens. Decades ago, during his apprenticeship, he made a catastrophic mistake he’s long forgotten. He was supposed to cast a B-list actor in the 1942 film Casablanca. Instead, due to a transcription error, that same actor ended up in the White House, becoming president of the United States in 1980.
Now, his boss has called him in. The computers have finally flagged the “humdinger” of an error, but the new president—convinced he’s in the movie role he never got and “overacting terribly”—has become genuinely dangerous. The problem isn’t just how the error happened, but whether reality will survive long enough for them to correct it at the next election.
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The Amulet
0Original price was: $2.99.$1.99Current price is: $1.99.An archaeologist unearths a unique Egyptian amulet, a scarab-snake hybrid pulsing with dark, ancient power. Fearing its influence, he sends it far away for safekeeping. But the amulet’s journey is far from over.
Decades later, it becomes embedded in the hem of a long black skirt worn by an elderly woman. Her manipulative nature finds resonance with the amulet’s magic. When the skirt—and its hidden secret—pass to her young granddaughter, Lucy, a child already mirroring her grandmother’s unpleasantness , the amulet’s dark legacy awakens anew.
The terrifying powers manifest in unexpected ways , twisting reality and unleashing horrors tied to a dark family history. Generations later, another young woman must confront this inherited evil.
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The Comic Book Killer
0Original price was: $2.99.$1.99Current price is: $1.99.He was a white, suburban bachelor. A total square. Lived with his mother. Worked for an insurance company. She was a black, tough, streetwise cop. Then somebody stole a quarter million dollars worth of rare comic books. And then people started getting murdered.
The Comic Book Killer is the first volume in Richard A. Lupoff’s hugely popular Lindsey-and-Plum series. Readers will cheer the return of these grand characters and their exciting investigations.
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The Cthulhu Encryption
0Original price was: $2.99.$1.99Current price is: $1.99.The Shoggoths attack: “They had been so horrible before that I dare not say that they were any MORE horrible when they came again…. They were still unspeakable, still unthinkable–but whether I could speak or think of them or not, they were HERE.”
Auguste Dupin is one of the few persons who can identify the rare Cthulhu Encryption etched in the flesh of a dying woman. The Comte de Saint-Germain owns a companion cryptogram that he believes is the key to finding a fabulous treasure buried by the pirate Levasseur.
Harassed by Shoggoths and tracked by Saint-Germain, Dupin must find the key to the complex puzzle. Can the might of Cthulhu be held at bay? And even if he finds an answer, can he and his friends escape with their lives?
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The Devil Wives of Li Fong
0Original price was: $2.99.$1.99Current price is: $1.99.No man is happier than Li Fong — until he discovers his lovely wives are really serpent-demons!
Long and long ago, before the foreign devils came, old China was a land of ancient culture and strange magic. There, Li Fong, a student of apothecary, seems the luckiest of men. By what has to be happy chance, he has been led to take two charming and quite wealthy ladies as his wives.
How could he know that his loving and beloved Mei Ling and Meilan are really spirit-demons? Or that the great snake that comes to his aid is really Mei Ling in her natural form?
But the wicked Taoist magician Chang Lu knows the truth and plots evil for Li Fong and his wives. Nor can the magic of Mei Ling prevail, though she struggles to protect her husband and gain true humanity for herself.
In the end, she can only summon the beautiful and terrible dragons to her aid!
