The valley waited, like it had been waiting for thousands of years—in silence and mystery—awaiting the touch of modern man.It was a small valley, aged and savage, rugged and virgin except for the crumbled ruins at one of its further ends, under the lonely high snow-capped mountain. One large-peaked building was surrounded at every turn with rubble that may have once been a great city. Now it was waiting, like a magnificent monument of a dead age.Nobody knew its origins; onl...

A book that reveals some of the most starkly startling stories beyond the headlines about the mysterious deaths of Hollywood stars during the early development of the film industry. Read about:Part One: The Fatty Arbuckle Rape CasePart Two: The William Desmond Taylor Murder CasePart Three: The Infant Husband in Jean Harlow’s LifePart Four: The Thelma Todd Murder ScandalPart Five: Lana Turner’s Fight with Her DaughterPart Six: The Rise and Fal...

An inside expose of what Norma Jean went through to become Marilyn Monroe, a famous movie sex symbol.The author offers a sensitive picture of Marilyn's climb to stardom, and the terrible price fame would ultimately demand. Marilyn wanted, most of all, to be loved, and spent a lifetime searching for that with many lovers who never totally fulfilled this desperate hunger.Discover the facts behind her rise to fame and her ultimate fall.

I have known Dan Benton for many years. He's a hard work-ing private investigator, private eye, troubleshooter, you name it.The following book is his.To give you some background about this man and how this book happened to come into being, I'll put down these few words of introduction.He's cool-headed. Normally.His line of work often involves following husbands or wives to see if they are cheating on one another. Usually he is lucky enough not to get involved in...

Even if we had remembered the old saying about Greeks bearing gifts, most of us couldn't have resisted the sales pitch.I should have been more suspicious, having come from the big city. We'd moved to Dales, a small farming town, when I was a little past fifty—some ten years ago. I'd come for my health—which was in bad shape—though I didn't expect a magically prolonged and vigorous life, only a few extra years. If we're lucky we survive into our seventies and might even get into our ...

The brutal murder of his kid sister drives Stanley Matson into a tailspin. The police warn him to keep out of their way; but Stan's need for revenge drives him into a desperate search.As time runs out, more deaths follow until Stan finds himself trapped in a mire of blood and bodies. Complicating his every move are the beautiful women who kne whis sister all too well...and will do anything to keep him from learning the truth!

Recently it was released in a hard cover edition that quickly sold out.Now at last the sci-fi thriller QUEEN OF BLOOD offered in eBook.A mysterious distress call from outer space leads a group of international astronauts on a perilous mercy mission to Mars. But when they arrive, they find the voluptuous Queen of Centurion, and the adventure turns into an eerie nightmare. Irresistible to men, one by one the Queen’s charms seduce her rescuers into a fatal embrace as the Queen h...

This was a special book for me. I'm not quite certain, for sure, why it became so important. It was, after all, designed to meet certain requirement of the market place at the time. But, for some reason, I couldn't cheapen it up to the "lowering standards" that publishers were demanding – not in this case. I actually took a little more time with it than usual.It was the theme that hooked me.We all have some person in our past who lingers, haunts and stays locked up in our mem...

A look into the future when the world has been shattered by terrorist, when they have succeeded in winning their war against humankind. What happens then? What will be the surviving elements of our modern civilization? What will be left?A VERY CULTURED TASTE presents one possible survivor's way of avoiding the terrible nightmare that had drawn down upon earth.

OverviewIf you have ever wondered what might happen after an allout war has wiped humanity out of existence, this little taleoffers a look into a possible brighter future. Well, bright mightnot be quite the right word! A telling tale of....THE HOMO SAPfollowed by:GUIDED TOURThis was his First Tour as a guide and he was determined tomake an impression! And he had a bag of tricks ready tomake it one trip to remember!...

A story of a man's search for treasure in the dangerous jungles of the Amazon, where a nightmare death awaits anyone who might try to take the gold treasures so jealously protected by their guardian native tribesmen!He was in desperate need of funds, and he needed to get back to his homeland. But the price to pay could be far too much! As he was soon to learn.An adventure into the deaths of terror, with a golden treasure as it rewarding payoff for anybody bold enough to tak...

IN THE DEPTHS OF THE AFRICAN JUNGLE PASSION AND TERROR MATE!Lost in the very heart of Africa the Bob Lake safari had only a small, blonde jungle girl standing between them and instant death!Bob's publisher had sent him on a jungle safari into Africa, not knowing that the man's popular "true adventures" were pure pulp fiction."Jungle Goddess" tells how Bob Lake discovered the savage Tallie, a lovely jungle nymph!When the plane crashed in an unexplored region of t...