CLIMATE INCORPORATED tells an engrossing story of the worldwide repercussions when the secret of climatic control is misused by ruthless men. JOHN RUSSELL FEARN'S powerful science fiction novel is supported by another sparkling selection of brand new stories of fantasy and the supernatural by favourite authors, including: BRIAN BALL, SYDNEY J. BOUNDS, JOHN GLASBY Plus other classic stories by FREDERICK H. CHRISTIAN and E. C. TUBB Another not-to-be-missed Cosmos Books paperback original!
CLIMATE INCORPORATED tells an engrossing story of the worldwide repercussions when the secret of climatic control is misused by ruthless men. JOHN RUS...
When medical Dr. John Naysmith reports to his new assignment on Mars, he's immediately confronted by a crisis: the outbreak of an alien virus among several men who've been exploring the Martian landscape. The entire base is quarantined, and the Security Chief tells Naysmith that he has just 72 hours to find a solution, or the base will be destroyed by nuclear bombs to prevent the infection from spreading. With time running out, there's just one more option: visiting the crater that's the source of the infection. Can the doctor develop a vaccine in time?
When medical Dr. John Naysmith reports to his new assignment on Mars, he's immediately confronted by a crisis: the outbreak of an alien virus among se...
The midnight moon rode high in the sky above the storm clouds sweeping in from the west, and the house seemed to transmute the moonlight into something terrible and evil. The broken chimneys stretched up like hands to the heavens, the eyeless sockets of the windows staring intently along the twisting drive. There were eldritch shadows in the house. On the floor of the library at the rear of the house, the strange cabalistic designs glowed with an eerie, devilish light. There was a flickering inside the room as of corpse candles, a cold radiance, a manifestation of the aura of evil that had...
The midnight moon rode high in the sky above the storm clouds sweeping in from the west, and the house seemed to transmute the moonlight into somethin...
Small-time crook Johnny Merak is determined to get Maxie Temple, a former crime boss whod framed him for a three-year stretch in San Quentin, and is now returning home from Mexican exile. But the 1950s Los Angeles Underworld wants Temple and Merak dead, and decides that by killing Temple, they can remove both men with one shot. But Merak isnt having any of the deal--he wants to clear his name and escape his Syndicate ties. When beautiful Dawn Grahame shows up, he finally has a reason to fight for a better life. This is the dark side of the L.A. underworld: the unknown hoodlum who knows too...
Small-time crook Johnny Merak is determined to get Maxie Temple, a former crime boss whod framed him for a three-year stretch in San Quentin, and is n...
Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia of the Alkaloids covers the literature to the end of October 1976 and includes a large number of these compounds which have been discovered since the first two volumes were published in 1975. There are some entries where recent work has resulted in new structures being put forward or where additional details regarding compounds have been provided. Additional references to compounds given in the first two volumes are marked with an asterisk. The opportunity has also been taken to provide a formula index covering all three volumes. It is a great pleasure to thank...
Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia of the Alkaloids covers the literature to the end of October 1976 and includes a large number of these compounds which ha...
Volume 4 of the Encyclopedia of the Alkaloids covers the literature to the end of 1981 and includes those compounds which have been discovered since Volume 3 was published in 1977. There is also a small number of entries giving recently determined structure or addi tional information regarding alkaloids given in the preceding three volumes. It is a great pleasure to thank the staff of the John Rylands Science Library of the Univer sity of Manchester for kindly providing me with access to the literature on this subject. Woodhouses, JOHN S. GLASBY Manchester, England May, 1982 Contents A . . ....
Volume 4 of the Encyclopedia of the Alkaloids covers the literature to the end of 1981 and includes those compounds which have been discovered since V...
She was the kind of woman a man always noticed, mostly because of her eyes: deep and dark, theyd held a warmth that could easily kindle a fire in ones soul. Now they were staring sightlessly up from the sidewalk. It was a killing without a motive, just the first of a string of murders that led Johnny Merak, private investigator, from the teeming underworlds of Chicago and Los Angeles to the edge of the New Mexican desert, trailing a killer who left no clues. But Merak knew the Mafia, its methods and its hiding places--because hed once been part of that scene himself. And now he was determined...
She was the kind of woman a man always noticed, mostly because of her eyes: deep and dark, theyd held a warmth that could easily kindle a fire in ones...
The murder of Carlos Galecci, a kingpin of organized crime, was not unexpected. Only three days earlier, fearing for his life, hed hired Los Angeles private eye Johnny Merak to discover who was threatening him. Then hes found seated in his private vault with a knife in his back--a vault whose combination only he knows, a vault no one else has entered in the interim. Summoned to the scene, Merak is hired by Gloria, Galeccis statuesque blonde wife, to discover her husbands killer, and to determine how an impossible crime has been committed. But in accepting the assignment, Merak soon finds...
The murder of Carlos Galecci, a kingpin of organized crime, was not unexpected. Only three days earlier, fearing for his life, hed hired Los Angeles p...
