The latest in a series of brutal murders has left Detective Robert Park close to breakdown, his sense of failure being amplified when his only suspect seemingly becomes a victim of her own gruesome game....

'Americas: Selected Verse and Vignette' seeks to give expression in poem and metaphor to the United States as a personally lived and engaged with culture. The span, accordingly, involves both site and...

This study analyses a changing literary order: America as unity and diversity, as a national and transnational entity. The literary critical writings assembled here offer a range of perspectives that...

It's unsettling when your work lands on your neighbor's doorstep. When you're Tony Mandolin, the bay area's PI to the weird, it's more than a problem. When it's a family of Garden Gnomes who've lost their...

Tony Mandolin, San Francisco's PI to the weird, gets dragged into a fairy tale, literally. He finds out that much of the Grimm dimension has been a-hem, sanitized for the masses. Snow White is more like...

Some day's it just don't pay to crawl outta bed. That's Tony Mandolin's feeling when he has to deal with the original Count Dracula…and a massive hangover…at the same time. What does a rumpled private...

Dragons were said to once rule the world, but in ages past the powerful creatures retreated to their mountain fastness to leave the younger races to their own devices. Then the magik war came and the...

Over the years, San Francisco's Private Investigator with an eye into the World of the Weird, caps intentional, Tony Mandolin has tackled vampires, demons, dragons, pixies, various members of the world...

War is in the wind.Twins and the last scions of the House of Labad, Charity, and Adam--each unaware that the other is alive--face the oncoming strife filling the land on opposite sides of the conflict.The...

Over the past several years, Tony Mandolin has had dealings with the Devil, old slew-foot himself. During those times the guy with the red skin and horns has wound up on the losing end, but in their last...

There are many magical gems in the world. Some bring luck and long life and some bring death and despair. A rare few are so powerful they are even sought after by the gods. One such jewel is even said...

Raised in the units, a government housing facility where the surplus population is kept, Lade is trained by his grandfather to be far more than just average. After an attack by an invading alien craft,...

Two Scottish friends, Robert McAllen and Duncan McDonald, attempt to make their way back home after suffering defeat during the time of the Jacobite uprising of 1745.Often referred to as "The 'Forty-Five",...

When the world was new, magik was shared and used for the benefit of all, but there was one who felt she was above all others and should wield power alone. Centuries passed and powers greater than hers...

So, why is Santa having his elves pound the dickens out of Tony Mandolin? And why are all the heads of the Bay Area's Organized Crime Families asking Police Captain Monahan to have Tony deal with an interloper...

He is the last of the wizards.Milward survived the Magik Wars by the narrowest of margins. Just beginning his life among the magik users, his teacher was blasted into nonexistence by Gilgafed the Sorcerer...

All families come with their own unique problems, but when that family is a clan of Eastern European vampires led by an extremely wealthy viscount living it up in a luxurious, imported castle, only Tony...

San Francisco's only Private Investigator with an eye into the supernatural, Tony Mandolin, is having one of those months. His bad mood drives him to a local pub where he encounters his latest client,...

  Vampires don't exist, do they? That's a question Private Detective Tony Mandolin finds himself pondering as the evidence piles up pointing to just that in a case involving a string of dead redheads...

Over the past decade, Tony Mandolin, Fog City's top Private Eye has had his share of the weird and horrifying. If asked, he would say his life has been a stumble from one cliche to the next, but none...

Does a clone have a soul? That's a question Tony Mandolin, San Francisco's Private Eye who has already seen far too much has to figure out when he's suddenly confronted with reports that his cross-dressing...

In a fit of desperate arrogance, Gilgafed the Sorcerer opens a rift between the worlds and releases a horror of old, a Seeker. Combined with the soul of a thief named McCabe, the creation becomes the...

Who's poisoning San Francisco's foodies? Tony Mandolin, Fog City's only private eye with a view into the supernatural, has been retained to find out why gourmands are turning up dead all around the city....

Someone is messing around with Luck. In a city with some of the largest underground gambling mobs in the world, Tony Mandolin, San Francisco's Private Eye to the odd and wonderful, finds himself neck-deep...

Victor Robert Lee's provocative debut spy thriller Performance Anomalies introduces a protagonist to rival the most memorable espionage heroes. Cono is a startling young man of mixed and haunting heritage...

This book comes out of our heart. It is intended to go to the hearts of others. Some of the things written here were learned by long and bitter experiences. Our "Adventures" were very real, and it is...

TEMPERS FLARE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT… …And the wrong move, the wrong word, even the wrong look can set off any man or woman already driven past their boiling point. A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime,...