Collection of six murder mystery stories from the urbane to the macabre: (1) Horror story set in 1930 when hanging was the norm for convicted murderers: Nine people involved in a recent murder trial are invited to dine at a forbidding old mansion on the pretext of hearing news to their advantage. They are escorted by a sepulchral butler into a large reception hall to await their host. The room has a log fire burning in the hearth of an enormous fireplace; food and drink abound. When the host fails to make an appearance they opt to leave the room but cannot; the only door has disappeared to be...

Private detective Miss Tayke and her gay sidekicks Cedric and Bunty become embroiled in six theatrical murder mysteries. The doyen among women sleuths unmasks a miscellany of fiendish murderers in these absorbing traditional British short read murder mysteries. -Grand Theatre Reopening Murder -Ides of March Murder Mystery -Christmas Cracker Murder -Christmas Panto Murder -Curtain Call Murder -Backstage Murder Mystery

Several years back I submitted a question to "Ask Marilyn," in the Sunday Magazine "Parade"- May 21, 2006-and as relevant today, as then] but not really expecting that she would answer...according to the Guinness Book of World Records, Marilyn vos Savant has the highest recorded IQ ever], and my question was: "It is obvious that our country is deeply divided: almost 50-50, judging. From the last election. Neither side sees any merit whatsoever in the programs of the other, and each side-is convinced that the other side has the dumbest ideas that ever came down the pike. Why are the two sides...

Mars: A Journey of Discovery takes us through previously uncharted territory to experience the unravelling of the mysteries of Mars first-hand and as they happened.