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Chapters: Mike Enzi, Avram Davidson, Ben Gibbard, Margaret Grubb, Nathan Adrian, Norman D. Dicks, Jill Banner, Tara Kirk, Steven Holl, Mike Herrera, Marvin Williams, William H. Gates, Sr., Buddy Allin, John Michael Greer, Champ Summers, Chuck Broyles, Howard Duff, Joe Pichler, Willie Bloomquist, Dan Attoe, Jim Whitaker, John Stroeder, Brent David Fraser, Benji Olson, Dana Kirk. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 105. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Michael Bradley "Mike" Enzi (pronounced ; born February 1, 1944) is the senior U.S. Senator from Wyoming. Before his election to the U.S. Senate in 1996, Enzi was a businessman who at one time owned family shoe stores. He later became a politician on the state level, having served in the Wyoming Legislature for more than a decade. He was reelected to the U.S. Senate in 2002 and again in 2008. Enzi is a Republican. Born in Bremerton, Washington, to Elmer Jacob Enzi and the former Dorothy M. Bradley, Enzi grew up in Thermopolis, Wyoming after his father's return from military duty on the Pacific Coast. He attended elementary school in Thermopolis and graduated from Sheridan High School in 1962. He is an Eagle Scout and a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. Enzi received a degree in accounting from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., in 1966. He is also a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity. He received an M.B.A. in retail marketing from the University of Denver in Colorado in 1968. He also served in the Wyoming Air National Guard from 1967 to 1973. On June 7, 1969, Enzi married the former Diana Buckley; the couple has two daughters, Amy and Emily, and a son, Brad. Soon after his marriage, Enzi moved to Gillette, where he expanded his father's s...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=381742 ... Read more

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Flawed but entertaining
Also, I will add, apparantly written by Avram Davidson and not the original authors who wrote under the Ellery Queen psuedonym.Be that as it may, this is an intriguingly written mystery in four parts, each part focussing on one of the four principle characters.Ellery doesn't show up until the 2nd part and there's a rather humorous twist at the conclusion involving the actual solving of the case.It is spoiled to a degree by various flaws, but still is fun reading for Ellery Queen fans albeit a bit sophisticated compared to the earlier books.

A puzzler from the 1960s
Written in the sophisticated style of the classic Queen morphed into a more knowing, sexually daring 60s setting, THE FOURTH SIDE OF THE TRIANGLE is a little more mechanical than usual.Would any district attorney, even in Manhattan, try first a man, then his wife, then his son, for the same crime?I don't think so, even though one marvels at the way Ellery Queen, or whoever wrote this potboiler, ultimately does his best to make it seem possible if not plausible.

The plot turns on a particular sexual quirk of the victim, a fashionable New York coutierere called Sheila Grey, that not many will find convincing, and it also depends on the way everyone is willing to believe that the millionaire dad, Ashton McKell, is actually impotent.I suppose the point is that no man would ever say anything like that about himself unless it was really true and he was backed into a corner?McKell's wife, Lutetia, is from the old school but I do not believe that any woman, even one who seems to have stepped out of Edith Wharton's imagination, would be reading, in 1965, a novel by "Mrs. Oliphant."Give me a break. ... Read more

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Danger From Vega
By John Rackham
Cover by Jack Gaughan

Flashing across his viewscreen, an iridescent image was Jeremy Thorpe's first glimpse of the Vegans, the mysterious infiltrators of Earth's galactic sector, bent upon a seemingly mindless determination to eliminate the human race.

That first glimpse was very nearly his last. Jeremy's ship *Quest* was almost instantly plunged into the center of a holocaust of heat-beams and fragmentation bombs.

Jeremy and two other survivors of *Quest* escaped with their lives only to find themselves stranded on the shores of a Vega-occupied planet. And in order to survive, they had to discover that the key to Vega lay in the strange magic of a race that seemed to consist entirely of the opposite sex!

Clash Of The Star-Kings
By Avram Davidson
Cover by Jack Gaughan

You might have thought that the Fiesta of the Holy Hermit in the Mexican town of Los Remedios was just another of those quaint colorful ceremonies that the Indian natives put on each year for the mystification of touristas. And perhaps for the past few hundred years it had been nothing more than that --- but this year was to be different.

For Jacob Clay, the American expatriate, had been poking into the buried secrets of that mountain community which dated back before the Aztec Empire, and he had begun to entertain a shocking suspicion. Before that fiesta was over, he was due to learn the volcanic reality behind:

The Holy Hermit: A mummy that was not a mummy
Tlaloc: A statue that was more than a thing of stone
Huitzilopochtli: A legend that was stark realism

And what started as a holiday turned into a nightmare! ... Read more

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Different Sort of Fantasy
This book is fantasy of the type sometimes sub-categorized as "magic realism." Jack Limekiller is a former Canadian, who has moved to the small country of British Hidalgo in Central America for a change of scene (to a scene that involves no snow). He stars in a series of short stories that were written between 1976 and 1993. The best part of all of these stories is the atmosphere, the way that Davidson catches the dialect of the people and the feeling of the land, down to the heat and wind and mosquitoes. Davidson himself lived in the country that would become Belize for quite some time, so truly knows whereof he speaks.

These stories barely have plots, and what plots they do have mostly involve ghost stories of some nature. However there isn't much sense of horror or mortal peril. They are almost treated as everyday or only slightly out-of-the-ordinary occurances. They seem incidental somehow to the overall flow of the stories, which deal with Limekiller trying to make a living and get some loving.

The writing style of the stories can best be described as stream-of-consciousness, which I personally can only take in small doses. And if you have trouble reading patois, that might cause you some trouble. However, the stories and the characters really grew on me over time. I found all the stories interesting, and I also enjoyed the inclusion of some non-fiction that Davidson wrote about Belize from when he lived there. The introductory material was informative, but was the hardest part of the whole book to slog through (introductions by Grania Davis, Lucius Shepard and Peter S. Beagle) and you can skip them if you'd like.

Overall, this is not the sort of thing that I usually read, but I really came to enjoy it.

Mystery/Occult in Imaginary West Indies
I've been wanting these stories collected for DECADES; I've long since worn out the magazines they were first printed in.

An easygoing young man takes his boat down the fictional West Indies isles of British Hidalgo, where he encounters mysteries and terrors whose visible aspects also echo or hint at more superatural meanings. I can't convey how much sheer FUN these are; joyous traveloguesand character studies, well plotted, and gorgeous with local dialects and all.

I can never decide which is my favorite Avram Davidson series; these, or the Dr. Eszterhazy stories (similarly half-real mysteries in the imaginary Ruritanian empire of Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania).

At Long Last!
These great stories were written in the 1970s-1980s but uncollected until now.Great glimpse of a country that sounds fictional but is absolutely real.Not a clinker in the bunch.I've spent years waiting for this book and it was worth it.Now if only someone would reprint Crimes & Chaos I'd be a happy man!

At last !
I have waited for the collected Limekiller stories for years. They are all I hoped for - simply superb (three new to me - ahh bliss!!)

Avram is one of the greats of our time - unqualified!

This or any other of Avram's collections of short stories? ... seize them, ... seize them all!! ... and enjoy ..... enjoy.

And, if you are lucky enough to find any out-of-print works, let me know - I deserve them more than you!!! ... Read more