""The gathering of the ravens presages a disturbance of the natural order."" Attorney Harry Jenkins is back in "A Trial of One," the final installment of the unsolved saga started in Mary E. Martin's "Conduct in Question" and continued in "Final Paradox." Jenkins is on a frantic search for shares of Elixicorp Enterprises stock, worth over thirty million dollars, for his elderly client, Norma Dinnick. The shares were originally sold to raise money for research into memory loss in seniors. Ironically, no one seems to remember just where the shares might be. Pursuing Jenkins through Toronto and...

""The gathering of the ravens presages a disturbance of the natural order."" Attorney Harry Jenkins is back in "A Trial of One," the final installment of the unsolved saga started in Mary E. Martin's "Conduct in Question" and continued in "Final Paradox." Jenkins is on a frantic search for shares of Elixicorp Enterprises stock, worth over thirty million dollars, for his elderly client, Norma Dinnick. The shares were originally sold to raise money for research into memory loss in seniors. Ironically, no one seems to remember just where the shares might be. Pursuing Jenkins through Toronto and...

Magical light creates stunning visions in Alexander Wainwright's landscape paintings. His most recent painting, "The Hay Wagon," is a marvelous, moonlit scene, with an old-fashioned hay wagon dominating the foreground, with a beautiful, unearthly glow. Yet, at the pinnacle of his career, he is about to lose his muse. Not everyone appreciates his work. Rinaldo, a conceptual artist, mocks Alexander's bourgeois love of beauty, believing Alexander's success proves that the universe is chaotic and absurd. Determined to undermine, humiliate and ultimately destroy his rival, he defaces Alex's...

A fabulous tale of art, creativity and-betrayal. Alexander Wainwright, Britain's finest landscape artist, enchants us with visions of the beyond-lying behind the everyday world. Jonathan Pryde, patron of the arts, offers him a commission to create stained glass windows at his home in Vence in the south of France. Alex hesitates. He's a painter, not a glass cutter. Jonathan flatters and entices with promises of creative freedom and fame. Against his better instincts, Alex is lured into Pryde's world and visits his home where the project is to be constructed. His patron's home is a luxurious,...

Magical light suffuses Alexander Wainwright's paintings. But he must find something new. A vision of a golden sphere studded with gems appears before him?the cosmic egg, source of all creativity. Next day, his art dealer shows him an unsigned painting of the very same cosmic egg dedicated to a Parisian pianist, Dumont. Does the cosmic egg exist not just in Alex's imagination but in the real world? That burning question drives Alex to take the ferry?a night crossing? from Portsmouth to Caen and then onto Paris to find the pianist and the artist. On that trip, the elderly Miss Trump, enters...