To the hard-boiled story of violence and death, J.C. Simmons has brought substance and depth of characterization. It is often said that he follows in the tradition of Kenneth Millar and John D. MacDonald, but Simmons has actually broken new ground. His novels have a social range and moral dimension that, in combination with a striking prose style and first person narrative drive, provide the reader with a rewarding experience.In this new and moving novel, Jay Leicester (pronounced "Lester"...

Jay Leicester (pronounced "Lester") is a retired airline pilot, retired because he could not stand the bureaucratic web the government spun over the aviation industry, and partly because anyone with the price of a bus ticket could fly on the airlines which resulted in overbooking, overcrowding, and near chaos on every route. Raised in a family of Judges and police officers, the only thing he knew to fall back on was the law. Opening his own private investigation business was a natural evol...

Blood on the Vine (Full Version)Jay Leicester (pronounced "Lester") is a retired Airline Pilot, retired because he could not stand the bureaucratic web the government spun over the aviation industry, and partly because anyone with the price of a bus ticket could fly on the airlines, which resulted in overbooking, overcrowding, and near chaos on every route. Raised in a family of Judges and police officers, the only thing he knew to fall back on was the law. Opening his own private ...

This is the newly released COMPLETE VERSION of "Popping the Shine (Book 6 of the Jay Leicester Mysteries Series)" by critically acclaimed southern author JC Simmons.New Orleans settings, gangland murder, police corruption, and international drug operations are the backdrop for J.C. Simmons' sixth serial mystery. Simmons' famed Aviation Consultant/Investigator, Jay Leicester (pronounced "Lester"), is drawn into a worldwide drug manufacturing operation when an old family friend's gra...

Scholars, Historians, students, and readers will learn much from Ernest Miller Hemingway: A Workbook. Carlos Baker, Hemingway's biographer said of the manuscript, "It is a wonderful and informative collection of Hemingway scholarship," and gave the work its title. Hemingway's majordomo in Cuba, Rene Villarreal, read the work in manuscript form and offered many insights and corrections to actual events. Dr. Edgar Grissom, who recently published the definitive bibliography, Ernest Hemingway,...

Coronary heart disease is the principal cause of death in all Western countries. Abnormalities in the serum lipids are one of the major risk factors widely recognised as leading to this epidemic of heart disease. These abnormalities occur very com monly in the general community and in general practice, and practitioners are pre vailed upon daily to provide specific advice about diet and cholesterol and to interpret chemical estimations. This is a very emotive area of medicine, one where of...

"The Electra File (Book 5 of the Jay Leicester Mysteries Series)" by critically acclaimed southern author JC Simmons.In this newly re-released and moving novel, Jay Leicester ("pronounced "Lester"), Simmons' celebrated Mississippi Aviation Consultant/Private Investigator, is hired by his friend, Guy Robbins, to help find his missing sailboat. It is found scuttled offshore with two bodies aboard. When identified, it is determined that the individuals were associated with the new gam...

Jay Leicester (pronounced "Lester"), a retired airline pilot now running his own investigation firm, is sent a client by his old friend Guy Robbins, an attorney on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. The client is a horribly disfigured young female marine biologist who is Director of a research lab on Cat Island, twelve miles off the coast ofGulfport. Her disfigurement is the result of an attack by a tiger shark during a dive to the wreck of a World War Two German submarine sank during t...

This is the COMPLETE EDITION of "The Underground Lady (Book 8 of the Jay Leicester Mysteries Series)" by critically acclaimed southern author JC Simmons:A small airplane mysteriously disappears in the dense piney woods of Mississippi. The pilot, a young widow named Hadley Welch is the lone occupant. Now, 25 years later, her daughter hires Aviation Consultant, Jay Leicester, to investigate. Jealously, revenge, and murder with colorful and deadly characters, all heading toward one cl...

The Anna Katharine Green Mystery Megapack selects 35 novels and stories by the classic author, including the complete Amelia Butterworth series and the complete Violet Strange series. If you are not yet familiar with Green's work, you will soon be a fan -- she was a major influence on the development of the modern mystery story and a strong influence on Agatha Christie. (Miss Marple was modelled after Amelia Butterworth.)THAT AFFAIR NEXT DOORLOST MAN’S LANETHE CIRCULA...

Following the events in Forgotten Place, Helen has little time to mourn losses and misfortunes - and her role in the carnage -before a massive amount of human blood is found in an equipment storage chest back stage at a New Year's Eve concert.After a brief search, a young woman's body is discovered, only she isn't what she appears to be at first glance. As Helen debates her need for involvement in the investigation, Johnny Orion seems determined to prove that he's still the state's...

Cops drink coffee.They don't belong in Ellen Rosings's Victorian tearoom. But when her opening day thank-you tea ends in the murder of the president of the Santa Fe Preservation Trust, the police invade her haven.Enter Detective Tony Aragon: attractive and unsympathetic, with a chip on his shoulder that goes beyond the murder investigation, and Ellen's delicate bone china cup is full. Is the murderer one of her honored guests, or the ghost rumored to haunt the buil...