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A group of powerful industrialists control key members of government agencies who disburse funds . <br><br>They handle any dissent through a network of psychiatric clinics around the country. Their solutions end in death.<br><br>Mrs. Hariett Piers, an older woman and a financial investigator catches on. She is incarcerated and killed in one of the clinics.<br><br>Her son, Gilbert Piers investigates and finding no legal solution provides his own. Two of the people involved in her murder are killed in electrically spectacular ways.<br><br>Lt. Edward Swinburne, Homicide investigator, discovers that it is Piers but before he can proceed has to join Gilbert for the safety of his own family. Together they pursue those involved in the conspiracy with every weapon they can muster.
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Mysteries Unlimited Ltd is the name of a small company that answers questions of any kind, no matter how strange or even dangerous. Occasionally they take projects that cause even the redoubtable owner and Willie Nelson, look alike Sydney Constant Lee to take pause.<br><br>Mysteries Unlimited is staffed by a zany bunch of misfits, all of whom have one thing in common; they are very smart. However they don't always operate in close proximity with reality. The May Day Massacre, as the theft of 90 million dollars from a San Francisco bank was called, is just one such mystery. <br><br>Miss Jean Heely, an officer of the bank is accused of the theft and incarcerated for the crime. She solicits the help of Mysteries Unlimited and we get to follow Sydney and his strange band as they solve the mystery and get her out of prison.<br><br>Before this happens they will confront crooked FBI agents, a senior member of the bank's management, a demented bank employee and a Japanese Yakusa mobster who takes a personal dislike to Sydney Lee.
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South of the Ecliptic description:<br><br>South of the Ecliptic is a science fiction military adventure that tells the story of the resurgence and finally the reinstatement of the Mars Legion. <br><br>Having unwisely chosen the side of the Federation over the Imperium nine years before our story begins, the Legion is defeated in the final battle at Vincent's planet.<br><br>Brigadier General Jerrad Piehl, in command at the last battle, and who would not surrender, was imprisoned for six years. When we meet the general he is Captain of a run-down trading ship. <br><br>The current King offers him a task that involves the Princess Iralane and getting her to a place of safety. It proves no easy task. Powerful forces that have good reason to hate and fear the Legion go to great lengths to destroy Piehl.<br><br>At the heart of the story is the secret of a functioning Intergalactic Portal whose use and control is being sought by Piehl's enemies. No more is known about it than that it is located south of the plane of the Ecliptic. With the help of his friends and members of the legion, Piehl seeks out his enemies and brings them to battle there, south of the Ecliptic on the portal world of Seerelan.
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William Fennimore is bored and depressed. He is a short man trapped in a tall world. While at a bus stop, waiting for his ride, he notices a perfectly written, copperplate script ad on the wall of the bus stop. It is surrounded by illiterate graffiti and stupid advertisements.<br><br>On a whim, he calls the number, makes an appointment and meets a beautiful girl who is taller, but then not. Miss Annie Brown, in a peculiar accent, says she works for a company called "For a Good Time Call". Instead of enjoying her bed, he is transported to their offices 9 million miles beyond Pluto and discovers that they are a Galactic Employment Agency.<br><br>The agency finds people of different races who can bring new view points to problems that have resisted all attempts to solve.<br><br>While waiting for assignment, William spends time with Miss Annie Brown. They fall in love. He receives his assignment and they are sent down to a planet that has been at war for 11 years. She is sent to one of the opposing sides by "accident" and William to the other.<br><br>He can only think of finding her. His many adventures crossing a vast, island-filled ocean to the other continent slowly bring him to the point where his 5 and 3/4" height is unimportant, and he does realize that he is having a good time. And so he should, "For a Good Time Call" guaranteed it contractually.<br><br>William does finally solve the problem of the war and find his Miss Annie Brown.
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When a commuter plane crashes in a violent storm in the Canadian Rockies, four unlikely passengers must find a way to survive. Each will be tested in ways that can't imagine.<br><br>Their chances seem impossible at the outset. A determined, obsessive boy scout, an arrogant 'Mr. America,' and old Italian deli man with a bad heart and a pretty flight attendant are thrown together on a Canadian mountainside.<br><br>Before they can escape to civilization they must confront bad weather, a wounded grizzly bear, criminal trappers and each other. Their greatest test will be to learn to work together, to become a team, in this case, Troop 402.