"Hello, you've reached Banyon Investigations...."Crag Banyon is just your run-of-the-mill P.I. He's got a secretary who loves to hate and hates to love him. His worst enemy in the world is on the local force and relishes the thought of seeing Banyon behind bars. And he's got a knack for attracting all the crazies to his small downtown office above the fish market. So when an elf shows up on a stolen reindeer and hints of foul play at the North Pole, Banyon takes the whole thing in ...

WHO IS THE RED MENACE?Throughout the 1950s this was the number one question from Moscow to Beijing and in every communist palace and malaria-ridden backwater in between. The mysterious masked figure was a shadow and a whisper. For the Kremlin and its fellow travelers he was a damnable monkey wrench tossed into the gears of the not-so-glorious worldwide revolution. Wherever Reds schemed, the Menace was there to set things right. And then, just like that, 1960 came and the whisper gr...

A timely and long-overdue work that in one convenient volume collects and analyzes the Edgar Cayce readings related to the cosmos, both in the light of modern astronomical and cosmological knowledge and the most recent discoveries in these fascinating fields. Complete with some of the latest and most spectacular images in full color from the Hubble Space Telescope superb "Heritage" collection, this intriguing book will show that Edgar Cayce, the "sleeping prophet," was tapping into the vas...

BANYON'S BACK WITH ONE HECK OF A CASE!For a savvy private investigator like Crag Banyon, tackling cases that are too hot to handle comes with the territory. But even a plucky P.I. with an occasionally unsavory client roster has his limits. So when a demon shows up at the front door of Banyon Investigations with a pile of cash and a plea for help, Banyon thinks it could be time to cool things down. Unfortunately, temptation strikes at the precise moment the rent is overdue, and the ...

RECIPE FOR DISASTER!Take one psycho beauty hell-bent on revolution.Add millions in illicit cash.Stir in one counterculture army.Simmer in a political pressure cooker until it explodes into America's streets.A devastating attack in the heartland leaves a stunned nation reeling. Claiming credit for the unprovoked strike is a new radical group called the People's Brigade. Even as bodies are being pulled from the rubble, this heretofore unknown group los...

TOOTH, INJUSTICE, AND THE BANYON WAYWhen the Tooth Fairy goes MIA, his insurance agency hires Crag Banyon to find the dental delinquent. Madison Insurance Equities has never paid out a claim in its hundred-year history, and it's not about to start now. Not to mention that a class action lawsuit from a world full of crying kids with bupkis under their pillows could put the venerable company out of business.It turns out Mr. Fairy has run afoul of a mysterious...

MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DIE!When Banyon is contacted by a mysterious client with deep pockets, our favorite P.I. doesn't realize he's stepping into some serious monkey business. It turns out the client hiding behind the piles of cash is the mayor, and hizzoner has a big secret: a monkey on his back of the literal variety.A series of threatening notes has Mr. Mayor rattled, but leaving him even more worried are some unusual changes happening to his wife. Is there a connection bet...

X MARKS THE SOTPlucky P.I. Crag Banyon prays that the worst thing to happen to him this week is getting stuck on jury duty. Unfortunately for alternate juror #10 (Banyon, Crag), he is no sooner liberated from the ugliest of all civil obligations than he's confronted with an even uglier professional one: a new client.It seems some nefarious fiend with a flea fetish has kidnapped a mutt named Fifi. Banyon wants more than anything to refuse the client, but it turns out Fifi is...

HISTORY REPEATS?Governments around the world are shocked when the sleepy South American nation of Manu unexpectedly launches a rocket from a secret jungle base. How could a backwards country, dismissed by every superpower as irrelevant, join the Space Age seemingly overnight and in such spectacular fashion?As every intelligence agency on earth scrambles to send men to Manu, MIC director Simon Kirk enlists the only two agents who can be counted on in a crisis: Patrick "Podge...

SPLAT IS WHERE IT'S AT!A trendy new drug nicknamed "Splat" has come out of nowhere and is suddenly sweeping the nation. The designer narcotic boasts that it will get kids higher than they've ever been before. But coming back down is murder.With a body count rocketing up from coast to coast, MIC Director Simon Kirk decides to send in the cure for what ails America's youth. Enter Podge Becket and Dr. Thaddeus Wainwright, the most lethal therapeutic MIC can prescribe. Their mi...

RED IS THE NEW GOLDThere's more than meets the eye when inmates riot in a West Coast maximum security prison. What could transform men into wild beasts? Turns out the dead prisoners are guinea pigs in a larger scheme, and Washington sends in the only two men who can deal with the sinister plot.Patrick "Podge" Becket and Dr. Thaddeus Wainwright trace a trail of bodies to a crazy California cult whose demented leader welcomes all who seek truth. But enlightenment costs, mainl...

TURN THAT CROWN UPSIDE-DOWN...When Banyon takes an easy gig bodyguarding the visiting Queen of Albion, he figures for the first time in his career he's finally got it made. A little quick cash for an afternoon's work. What can go wrong?When you're Crag Banyon, don't ask.No sooner does he take the job than someone tries to kill Her Royal Handbag. No sooner does he save her than someone tries to kill him. No sooner does he say to hell with it and escapes to his favori...