What happens when you sit down on your back stoop to drink your morning coffee and find a disabled space ship sitting in your back yard? Of course, you declare "Finders-Keepers." The Finding wasn't hard, but the Keeping proves to be the problem. The US government wants to hide the mere existence of aliens. The military covets the technology, as does every other government and industrial entity in the world. The religionists must prove it is all a great hoax.
The Finders, Alvi and Studs, play hide-and-seek with those who want their ship and eventually they learn the ominous reason for the...
What happens when you sit down on your back stoop to drink your morning coffee and find a disabled space ship sitting in your back yard? Of course, yo...
"Losers-Weepers"-After four decades, again there was an alien spaceship sitting in Alvi and Stud's backyard. This time their old adversary was seeking human help to repel carnivorous invaders, who were eating their way through the Czarian homeland and who would soon turn their appetites toward Earth. Not only must Alvi and Studs battle the space raiders, but cajole a skeptical US government and outwit the military which covets otherworld technology.
"Losers-Weepers"-After four decades, again there was an alien spaceship sitting in Alvi and Stud's backyard. This time their old adversary was seeking...
The Usher Orlop Mystery Series 1 & 2 The Golden Janus Usher Orlop is commissioned to create a silver death mask of a slain boy. His serious doubts about the direction of the police investigation leads Usher and his jeweler friend, Anasette, to get involved. Since artists view the world a little differently, they find threads that suggest alternate scenarios.
The Pewter Masks When Usher and Anasette rent the famed old whorehouse in downtown Denver to stage a sculpture and jewelry show, they find the missing weapon. That reopens a long dead case, involving the murder of the fabled owner...
The Usher Orlop Mystery Series 1 & 2 The Golden Janus Usher Orlop is commissioned to create a silver death mask of a slain boy. His serious doubts...
"The Nickel Trophy" An unusual commission offer for the apparently simple task of sculpting a memorial to a boy, accidentally killed 40 years ago, turns hazardous, raising suspicions as to the real cause of death. Usher must sort through feuding communities and shattered dreams to come up with the Nickel Trophy.
"The Bronze Bones" An elderly blind client accused Usher of making silver masks of ringers instead of her twin granddaughters. While clearing his name, he runs into massive frauds, murders, political corruption and even the Chicoms. However, meeting Tanner Jones, the fossil man,...
"The Nickel Trophy" An unusual commission offer for the apparently simple task of sculpting a memorial to a boy, accidentally killed 40 years ago, ...
The Usher Orlop Mystery Series 7 & 8 The Silver Scepter: Usher travels to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico to execute a silver scepter for an unusual client. Usher finds his creation is used to bash in the skull of a woman. Usher rescues her tiny son and must find a way to get the tyke out of harm's way. The Rhodium Dragon: Usher is provided with a magnificent jade box on which to mount a silver mask of a client's grandson. The surfacing of the lidless box precipitates multiple burglaries and murders, plus the involvement of a powerful Chinese tong and the Chicoms. Usher must sort through...
The Usher Orlop Mystery Series 7 & 8 The Silver Scepter: Usher travels to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico to execute a silver scepter for an unusual cli...
"The Brass Portraits" An art school chum arranges for Usher to sculpt portraits of six retired Army colonels. The friend is brutally murdered along with two colonels. Usher and Anasette have their work cut out for them helping a widow, six orphans and the four remaining clients with a serial killer on the loose.
"The Zinc Ormolu" When Usher begins to replace a broken piece of zinc ormolu on an antique desk, he finds a mummified body inside. The discovery exposes massive injustices in a lumber empire. These revelations unlease brutal efforts to suppress inquiry and obscure the truth....
"The Brass Portraits" An art school chum arranges for Usher to sculpt portraits of six retired Army colonels. The friend is brutally murdered along...
Charm Catcher: Two boys, fourteen...Mano, an Asti, a descendent of Lemurs and Mike, a human, a descendent of the Great Apes, rub together as they find themselves in a series of dangerous, life-threatening situations. Dream Weaver: Now sixteen, Mano seeks Mike's help to get back to his family. Something is changing. He is afraid he is dying. He doesn't want to die alone among the Mundanes...those without charms.
Charm Catcher: Two boys, fourteen...Mano, an Asti, a descendent of Lemurs and Mike, a human, a descendent of the Great Apes, rub together as they find...
While seeking a nude model for his life drawing class, Zain Zook, sculptor, finds Rose, an itinerant model. Rose embodies all of the physical attributes he has been envisioning as the figure for a new series...The Lady and the Towel. The arranged modeling sessions are put on hold by a gigantic summer storm. Zain also takes in the flooded-out neighbors with their four sets of twins. All are stranded by washouts. While waiting for the water to recede, Zain has time to photograph all the poses he needs for the new series. As they are work together, each is becoming aware of the other on a...
While seeking a nude model for his life drawing class, Zain Zook, sculptor, finds Rose, an itinerant model. Rose embodies all of the physical attribut...
