After a lifetime of playing it safe, CalTech professor Robert Godwin, widower, is frustrated and unfulfilled. Hired as a museum consultant to examine a mysterious device found in an ancient Greek shipwreck, he learns something that will allow him to travel through time. Deciding to risk everything, he seeks to change the world by preventing Lee Harvey Oswald from killing President Kennedy. Arriving in 1963, however, Godwin is shocked to discover that he is again a teenager - the same age as the first time he lived through 1963. Determined nevertheless to save Kennedy, he mails letters...

No such thing as PERFECT CRIMES? Witness this whirlwind tour of dirty deeds, sinister scandals, and cold-blooded murder--done in the name of love, money, madness, and more--from around the world or right next door. All of these notoriously wicked characters overlooked a fatal flaw that brought their almost perfect crimes to light. THE LONE WOLF Japanese jet-setter Kazuyoshi Miura had a talent for making money, a taste for lizard-skin boots, and a lust for leading trusting young women like lambs to slaughter.... CHOP CHOP MAN Mild-mannered maniac Jeffrey Dahmer wined his male guests with...

Something isn't kosher in Burbank. First, huge sums appear, then vanish from a little-used congregational bank account. Next, a body turns up in an unsold cemetery plot. And then the congregation's beloved secretary is brutally murdered. Enter Rabbi Ben, roving troubleshooter, master of Taekwondo and Talmud, an M.I.T. computer whiz who seemingly walks through walls-and a man with his own bag of secrets. The High Holidays are just around the corner-so what could possibly go wrong? Ben's investigation leads him to a decrepit cemetery, an opaquely mysterious private bank, a shofar-blowing,...