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Everything is bigger in Texas, including the crimes! <P> Join the award-winning Austin Mystery Writers and friends as they explore the dark side of the Lone Star State. These thirteen talented authors penned fourteen tales of cowboys and criminals, girlfriends and grifters, morticians, motel clerks, and even a big, bad wolf! <P> Lone Star Lawless includes stories by the Austin Mystery Writers: Gale Albright, V.P. Chandler, Kaye George, Laura Oles, and Kathy Waller. The friends who contributed are: Alexandra Burt, Janice Hamrick, Scott Montgomery, Mark Pryor, Terry Shames, Larry D. Sweazy, George Wier, and Manning Wolfe.

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If Kate Archer had known just what the invitation entailed, she most certainly would not have succumbed to the pleading of June Gladstone to spend a month’s vacation at her father’s luxurious farm. <P> Kate had met June at school, and, although four years her senior, had gone out of her way to befriend the forlorn, unattractive, almost ugly girl in her early teens. Now, five years later, the invitation had appeared out of the blue, and Kate found herself a guest in a strange, isolated household of very bohemian ways, with a menacing undercurrent that made Kate very uneasy. Suddenly, things began to happen with astonishing rapidity. Clotilde, June’s beautiful stepsister was kidnapped in very gruesome circumstances, and Kate had to play a nerve-racking part in delivering the ransom money. <P> But two murders occurred before peace was finally restored in the Gladstone household, and the warped, twisted mind of a murderer was revealed. <P> (Originally published as «You'll Be Sorry.»)

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He was Karn, the savage of the sky-high trees. He was protector and defender of the princess Niamh, whose very city was lost in the mapless jungles of the world under the Green Star. But he was also an Earthling, whose helpless body lay in suspended animation in a guarded mansion in New England. It was his alien mind that drove Karn through perils that no other wold dare… <P> In the Green Star's Glow is a science fantasy novel in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Written by American author Lin Carter, it is the final book in his Green Star series. It was first published in 1976

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17-year-old Pete Dana runs a boat yard in Hidden Harbor with his father. It's a quiet New England town – until Jeffrey Fannin arrives. Fannin is reckless and plans to sell a line of red speed boats called Sea Sharks. When Pete makes this mistake of tying up his own boat at what should have been a public dock, it mysteriously comes loose and is almost lost, he suspects Fannin is to blame. And what is Fannin up to at the old factory? Something smells fishy to Pete…and it isn't the ocean! Before he's through, he's going to uncover a mystery that's bigger than anyone in Hidden Harbor ever suspected!

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The murder of a sweet young woman is not an unusual occurance in the big city, but when the corpse herself proves so contradictory, stubbornly defying the police to catch her murderer, this becomes meat and bread to Assistant D.A. Jeremiah X. Gibson. Accompanied by his long-suffering sidekick, Mac, Gibby walks in on one murder – and out on five. Before the maelstrom finally subsides, Gibby and Mac have almost joined the roster of corpses that parade through this, their most ingenous case!

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Leslie Ford cordially invites you to spend the weekend at a murder-haunted mansion…<P> Escape the workaday world and come to this luxurious Newport, Rhode Island, playground. Watch the idle rich at their games. See a delightful young heiress falling in love. Observe high society’s most fascinating cad in action. See three lovely Paris-garbed ladies play hide-and-seek with a huge inheritance. Attend the lavish Saturday night dance of death… <P> "Some of Mrs. Ford's smoothest writing." –Anthony Boucher, New York Times <P> A charming young heiress – a glittering social affair where death came uninvited…<P> Ford…one of the best mystery writers" –Louisville Courier-Journal<P> "Leslie Ford is an expert at getting a heroine neck-deep in trouble and dragging the reader along." – New York Times

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A frightened girl keeps a fatal appointment in a deadly desert hideaway. <P> Judy was very beautiful, very much in love and very much married to the wrong man. A speedy divorce seemed the only solution to everybody's problems, but little did she imagine that a flying visit to Reno would turn into a terrifying case of murder – with the shadow of a noose dangerously close to her own lovely neck. <P> "Leslie Ford knows how to write mystery novels." – The New York Times <P> "Sizzling!" – Saturday Review <P> "Grade A." – New York Herald Tribune

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Two attractive women…one personable man…a gun…a shot…and then black headlines asking red blood for…THE VENUS DEATH BY BEN BENSON <P> Ben Benson’s superb descriptions of the state police at work…and at play…have given all of his mystery novels a unique and buoyant quality of authenticity. The Venus Death is no exception…but here Mr. Benson departs from previous practice to create a vigorous new hero, young state trooper Ralph Lindsey. <P> This is Lindsey’s story from start to finish. It begins when a glamorous blonde singles him out for personal attention. It continues through the frantic horror of murder…the desperate wish to clear his own name…the urgent, driving need to protect the people he loves. The Venus Death is Ben Benson at top form, which means a strikingly different story for solid reading entertainment.

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LOVED TO DEATH!<P> Actually, she hadn't been worth getting involved with.<P> Yet, the fact remained that a lot of men had. And one of them had been more involved than anyone could know.<P> A cozy, one-bedroom apartment and an engraved anniversary present put George Harmon Coxe's celebrated private detective, Sam Crombie, onto the trail of four men. All had loved the same woman. All had eventually left her. One had left her dead…

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She was a dangerous female, beautiful, cold-blooded, predatory. The people she lived among were the very nicest sort. Yet, strange to say, it was she who was found dead. And she was only the first victim… <P> She was a dangerous female, beautiful, cold- blooded, predatory. The people she lived among were the very nicest sort. Yet, strange to say, it was she who was found dead. And she was only the first victim . . .<P> “A prime mystery . . . told with Leslie Ford’s usual skill.” —The New York Times<P> "Exciting." – The New Statesman<P> "Excellent Leslie Ford at top form. – New York Herald Tribune

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