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Todd, age 13, knew old Mr. Denker was not a retired auto worker, but a former under-commandant at a Nazi concentration camp. Todd wanted to learn everything he could from Mr.

At the end of summer, four pals, all age 12, begin a two-day hike to look at the dead body of a missing child.

It was a gentlemen's club, although no one paid any dues. The cost of membership was a tale well told, and this one paid for all.

Few works by comic-book artists have earned the universal acclaim and reverence that Bernie Wrightson's illustrated version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein was met with upon

On the same evening that a body is found in Picketsville’s urgent care clinic, a mysterious break-in occurs at the house of one of Callend University’s faculty.

The year is 29 C.E., and Jerusalem chafes under the Roman Empire’s continued presence and oppressive rule. But in spite of that unpleasant fact of life, life goes on, but not for everyone.

The World Cup, which arrives in June, has ripple effects on all South Africa’s neighbors.

Waldo Templeton was, at best, a mediocre organist.

The elderly Jonathan Lydell III is proud of his family history. He is related to the Virginia Lees (both Light Horse Harry and Robert E.

Frank Smith, famed writer of murder mysteries, boards Southwest Airlines heading from Phoenix to Baltimore.

Nick Reynolds, his pilot’s rating barely a month old, drops off the radar at night over the Chesapeake Bay. Investigating agencies call it another tragic pilot error accident.

Ruth Harris, Sherriff Ike Schwartz’s fiancée, is involved in a near fatal automobile accident. But Ike is convinced the crash was rigged.

Boy Judas Iscariot struggles to understand his mother’s god. Despairing, he becomes a survivor in the streets of the first century Roman empire.

Leo Painter is the CEO of Earth Global, a large energy, mining and real-estate development firm.

It’s the bleak midwinter and the Shenandoah Valley is poised on the brink of an unusually icy and snowy season. Alexei Kamarov’s body is discovered in a forest within the Picketsville town limits.