You will be able to watch a capable scientist work to uncover the mystery of what he suspects is a new kind of radiation, a radiation he eventually calls x-rays. A German scientist, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, is the main character in this book. His experimental expertise was the key element in his successful science career. When he saw something unusual as he pursued one of his experiments, he investigated to learn more. Long before Roentgen discovered x-rays many other scientists around the world had seen unusual effects, including fogging of film or electrical changes, effects that they never...

Killing Time in the Retirement Home Fairview Manor, a continuing care retirement community in the Washington, DC suburbs, seems like a place where old folks can live out their final days in a peacful environment. The Manor is certainly not a place where you would expect to find two residents each plotting a murder - of the same victim -- each without knowledge of the other's murderous intention. Two Manor residents take special note when a man moves into the Manor, a man who made his fortune as a ruthless business pirate. They start to ponder ways to get even with this man who ruined people...