Feisty middle-aged piano teacher Sally Freberg stumbles on a murder-in-progress after a Kansas City concert. Why would anyone conspire to kill mild-mannered archeologist Henry Decker? His brutal knife-slaying stymies all, especially the police. What's the motive? Apparently none in the victim's estranged Santa Fe family stands to gain. But----what's this about Decker's pre-concert mention of an opera? How might Sally follow THAT slender lead to uncover a motive and unmask the conspirators? To nail it all, Sally teams with an ambitious KCPD detective for a deadly pursuit near Decker's digs...
Feisty middle-aged piano teacher Sally Freberg stumbles on a murder-in-progress after a Kansas City concert. Why would anyone conspire to kill mild-ma...
The fanatical John Brown chooses a natural-born killer to help cart rifles into Bleeding Kansas. He's Malcolm Erskine, mixed-race drifter off the docks of Massachusetts, where he'd endured Yankee bigotry and slain two men. Besieged Kansas-settling abolitionists enlist Erskine in the Border War to repel invading proslavers. Aiding transplanted New Englanders, young Wild Bill Hickok tries to guide Erskine, but Malcolm makes it a personal fight. Outrage over the savagery of the enemy drives him to even bloodier retaliation, and he's on his way to becoming more notorious than Brown. Erskine is...
The fanatical John Brown chooses a natural-born killer to help cart rifles into Bleeding Kansas. He's Malcolm Erskine, mixed-race drifter off the dock...
The author of Diagnosing Jefferson introduces twelve more high-achieving role models-including Einstein, Mozart, and Darwin-who have made significant contributions to our world. All exhibited traits common to people with Asperger's Syndrome. Today's young people and adults with AS can also make a difference if they are given support, opportunities, and the freedom to explore their abilities. Many accomplished people have been loners, self-taught, obsessed by an idea, and known for their lack of social skills. How many of them would be diagnosed with Asperger's today? Norm Ledgin makes...
The author of Diagnosing Jefferson introduces twelve more high-achieving role models-including Einstein, Mozart, and Darwin-who have made significa...
A literary agent with Amish roots is buried alive. Why?, Meet...Sally Freberg, sexy 65-ish piano teacher who's been braless since Woodstock and gets away with sticking her cute nose in Kansas City Police Department business. Rosie Chen, "a knockout" by Sally's estimation, a novelist who confesses that an effective career generator is to bed agents and editors, regardless of gender. Emma Miller, a trim Debra Messing look-alike who gave up an acting career for her faith and is a cool and high-stepping Amish mother of nine. Jane Sims, ...
A literary agent with Amish roots is buried alive. Why?, Meet...Sally Freberg, sexy 65-ish piano teacher who's been bra...
Max Gold has fantasized about 1930s "blonde bombshell" movie star Jean Harlow his entire life. All the world believes she died in 1937. Now it's 1989, and widower Max--video store operator and connoisseur of cinema--is certain he has seen her. Harlow has been revived from a frozen state, he says, cured of her illness, and is back to her Kansas City roots for a quiet life under an assumed name. Naturally, he goes into hot pursuit...
Max Gold has fantasized about 1930s "blonde bombshell" movie star Jean Harlow his entire life. All the world believes she died in 1937. Now it's 1989,...
