"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...

The very first work of its kind, Celebrating the Universe! is a tour of the wonders of the heavens, with a focus on the "soul" of the night sky. Astronomer and author James Mullaney has written this travel guide to the stars from a metaphysical and spiritual perspective in addition to a scientific one. The unique unifying theme throughout is the personal benefits of communing with these marvels firsthand—the joy and heady excitement of participating in the great c...

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...

Amateur astronomers of all skill levels are always contemplating their next telescope, and this book points the way to the most suitable instruments. Similarly, those who are buying their first telescopes – and these days not necessarily a low-cost one – will be able to compare and contrast different types and manufacturers. This exciting and revised new guide provides an extensive overview of binoculars and telescopes. It includes detailed up-to-date information on sources, selection and ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...