Fiction. Mystery-thriller, a Private detective novel. Set in Washington, DC.

Franklin 'Pierre' Honeywell is one of Washington, DC's best-known fashion designers. A man with an acerbic personality, he comes to Al Pennyback, claiming that someone is threatening his life. At the urging of his partner, Heather Bunche, Al takes the case, even though he develops a dislike for his new client. He finds a number of people with good reason to dislike Honeywell, from the models who work for him, and who he abuses horribly, to his former partner and lover Calvin Rigg, who is now one of his main competitors. After checking a long list of suspects, Al comes to the conclusion that...

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Beatrice Terwilliger, an elderly resident of the Potomac Valley Community is found dead in her home, apparently from a heart attack. But, her niece, Zelda, thins otherwise, and to make matters worse, her aunt's will is missing. At the urging of Violet and Rose Wertheim, Zelda turns to Ed Lazenby and his friend, Ernie Cardoza for help in finding out how her aunt really died, which, of course, means that Ed and Ernie are in trouble again.

Competition in the restaurant industry is cutthroat, but it's not supposed to be literally fatal. When Al and Sandra accompany Buster Mayweather to upstate New York to attend the opening of a new restaurant by Buster's old college friend, things take a turn for deadly when the restaurant's head chef is found frozen to death in the freezer. Was it an unfortunate accident, or was the chef the victim of one of the town's many long-standing feuds? Buster, a DC cop, is outside his jurisdiction, but when a friend's in need, jurisdiction be damned. Al just hates to see injustice, and is a sucker for...

Ninth Cavalry First Sergeant Ben Carter and his men are sent to the little town of Oakton, in New Mexico Territory, to help the sheriff maintain order. Two brothers, Dwight and James Oakley, are at odds over the division of the ranch left to them by their father in his will, and the sheriff fears that it'll escalate into a shooting war that he won't be able to contain.. Very soon, though, Ben learns that there is more to the situation than meets the eye. He must use all his skills, military and diplomatic, to keep things from spiraling out of control.

Al Pennyback will do anything for friend and kin, so when an offer is made to buy his cousin, Winston's land, an offer that seems to good to be true, Al is asked to look into it. Back in East Texas, a place that Al left as a teen and swore never to return to, he finds that nothing is what it seems. Things smell bad, literally and figuratively, and when Al starts digging, he unearths secrets that someone will kill to keep buried.

Join Catie at home on her first day of nursery school, and follow her through the day. A first reader for your child that also teaches good habits.

A picture book that will not only help teach your child how to count from one to ten, but also to recognize colors and certain objects, as well as learn the words for the numbers.