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  • Maverick lawyer Steve Winslow advises a client about changing the terms of his will without letting the next-of-kin know - then the client is discovered dead in a subway tunnel deep under New York City.  Is it the green-haired teenage nephew, in possession of an unsigned will leaving everything to him?  Witnesses place him near the scene of the crime - or is that too obvious?
  • A detailed account, with photographs, of the author's travels through the Mcdonough and Krichauff ranges, through the desert to Lake Amadeus, Ayer's Rock with its amazing Old Woman Cave and onto Mount Olga. Groom lived and worked in the Red Centre, travelling by car, camel and on foot, falling under its spell of limitless distances and unbelievable colours. For 1950s Australians, books like Groom's were their only glimpse of the inland. This is a portrait of those times - a strange and wonderful land - with 52 photos, including one of Namitjira painting.
  • In the hot weather at the height of the Long Vacation, solitary don Dr. Wiston observes his colleagues Born and Thomas conducting experiments in ESP on a room overlooking the college court. The devil finds work for idle hands and Dr. Wiston, with nothing better today, invites the melancholy Born to a sinister meal at which he introduces a darker element to his innocent colleague's unconscious. Now Born is haunted by the black stone mirror, the Devil's Looking-Glass, once owned by - among others - the Elizabethan magus Dr. John Dee. As Thomas loses control of his subject to Wiston, events move helter-skelter to a terrifying climax in the British Museum. Cover art by Alan Powers.

  • If the Black Death of 1948 had killed three-quarters of the population of Europe instead of one-quarter - what would have happened to the world? Europe, weakened by such a catastrophe, would probably have been conquered by the Turks and the Americas would have remained in the hands of the Aztecs, Incas and other tribes. In this alternate world, 18 year-old Dan Beauchamp of New Istanbul (London) sets off the make his fortune in Mexico where the mighty Aztecs rule. When he arrives he hears that the nephew of King Moctezuma XII will reward followers who help him build a new empire and he joins the expedition to the Upper Hesperides, travelling in coal-powered Aztec automobiles. When this mad venture turns out badly, Dan becomes involved in other glittering schemes for winning golden empires, bringing him many marvellous and funny adventures on the way. Cover art by Terry Oakes.
  • A book about the author's journey to find Fiji - the REAL Fiji, not that which is presented to the tourists. He found a gold mine beneath an extinct volcano; the annual sugar can harvest; the copra plantations; he saw Fijians, Indians and Chinese studying together in technical college to gain skills that would speed the development of their community. He bargained with merchants in duty-free shops and discovered the romantic legends of Fiji and conversed with wood carvers and a Fijian public servant  charged with the duty of developing tourist industry to help the progress of the people.  He spent time with island trading boat captains, Sugar Queens and royal Fijian chiefs. With black and white photographs.
  • Duke de Richleau Adventure XI. The Duke de Richleau, together with his friends Richard Eaton, Rex van Ryn and Simon Aron – the Modern Musketeers, have faced many hair-raising adventures together. Now, there is also Rex's son and Fleur, Richard Eaton's daughter. Fleur, who believes in all the freedoms, including that of sex. But interwoven with the the story of Fleur's love life is a story of a strange inheritance that draws the whole party to Ceylon; and in Ceylon to face theft, murder, arson and blackmail. Until finally de Richleau has to take a last desperate gamble, alone, to save his friends. Cover art by Edward Mortelmans.