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On a routine exploratory mission, the Starship U.S.S. Hood picks up a distress signal from a research expedition thought lost long ago -- the expedition of Dr.

Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things-dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne's premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how

Running late to the Hinkler gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets some thugs in a dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver d

For three centuries the people of Alaj and the people of Etolos have been bitter enemies.

A woman waits under five feet of dirt-a woman who is by now nothing but bones stained the deep red of Oklahoma clay.

A sweltering July in Chicago, 1923. Edna Ferber, now a famous short-story writer, is supposed to be researching the novel that will become So Big, her Pulitzer-Prize winner.

It's the Garden of Eden. And the weather is absolutely freezing!

Dante Maxima Seven -- a world known to its inhabitants as Imprima. A world where "Madragi" -- huge social/economic entities wealthy beyond compare -- control the fate of millions..

Camden's friend Rufus Jackson receives a letter from his ex-wife, Bobbi, and he's surprised to learn he's the father of a baby.

It's a crime scene worthy of Hieronymus Bosch, so shocking and so senseless it challenges the local law and intrigues veteran reporter Geneva Chase whose career may be dying alongside that of

Sixteen-year-old Harper Jacobs and her bored friends make a pact to engage in a series of not-quite illegal break-ins. They steal from each other's homes, sharing their keys and alarm codes.

Robert Arthur Kewdingham is an eccentric failure of a man. In middle age he retreats into a private world, hunting for Roman artifacts and devoting himself to bizarre mystical beliefs.

Action-packed novel of the first Star Trek: The next generation feature film, in which Captain Picard and Captain Kirk meet at last!.

Impossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective fiction.

It's late August, 1592. Sir Robert Carey, cousin to Queen Elizabeth from the wrong side of Henry VIII's blanket, remains at his post on the Borders at Carlisle.