Jan Kokk, Curacaos brawny answer to Belgiums impeccable Hercule Poirot, is kidnapped by the scheming security officer--attractive female, of course--of an oil tanker plying the Caribbean. Kathlee hopes Kokk will discover who is murdering the ships twelve-man crew, one by one. Which of the crew is the murderer and why is he killing all his mates? The motive remains a mystery until the ship--minus crew--reaches Nicaraguas isolated Little Corn Island in the Caribbean. Kokks sleuthing fails to...

A luxury cruise through the Antilles hosts a large political forum involving most of its vacationing passengers. Soon the political forum becomes fractious due to acrimony over restoring relations with Cuba. When a dissenting delegate is found stabbed in the back near the forum rostrum, two detectives--one a petite blonde from the cruise line, the other the inimitable Jan Kokk--begin hunting the killer among the now terrorized passengers. By the time the cruise ship reaches Curacao, Kokks ...

GAMBOL IN VEGAS Formidable, lady-loving Jan Kokk, private investigator from Curacao, is at it again. This time Kokk finds himself babysitting a delegation of Curacaoan officials in Las Vegas there to win the lucrative Twin City title. The agreement would establish formal commercial and tourism links between Curacaos capital, Willemstad, and Fabulous Las Vegas. What Happens Here, Stays Here, is the Vegas credo. In Kokks case What Happens Here includes the murder of one of his delegation, th...

American college girl, Jean Scott, mysteriously disappears from the luxury hotel, shared with her fiance on the Caribbean island of Curacao, once a Dutch colony. The distraught fiance hires private investigator Jan Kokk to find his missing bride-to-be. In his inimical larger-than-life manner, robust, corsair Kokk finds the missing girl. He also discovers a drug trafficking connection between Curacao and Miami, intensified by two related murders, unheard of on lovely, idyllic Curacao.

This illustrated Travel Guide is a part of the Mobi Sights series our concise guides that only feature the most essential information on city attractions. This guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders smartphones and other mobile electronic devices. Inside you will find a locator map and a list of top attractions linked to individual articles. Addresses telephones hours of operation and admissions information are included where possible. The guide also features an article with ...

When a yacht explodes in the Bahamas, apparently killing six people, Sam Boyleston, an attorney from Texas and the brother of one of the victims, is compelled to investigate the circumstances, as does Raoul Kelly, a newspaper reporter.After the disaster the yacht's burned captain was temporarily marooned on a small island, and soon it becomes apparent that one person is ruthlessly manipulating events. But for Boyleston and Kelly proving guilt appears impossible ...'...

Matt Helm is unexpectedly rich, and he doesn't like it. Twenty thousand mysterious dollars appear in his bank account, but this is no time for celebration. Another secret agent with an unexplained surplus is murdered, and Helm figures he better work out who his "benefactor" is before he becomes the next target.

Faced with MORTAL DANGER, the Pott family trade one peril for another as, during their escape from the isolated beach they found at the end of Adventure #1, they come face to face with a group of dangerous gangsters. But with Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang to rescue them, the Pott family can rest easy at their hotel in the French countryside…or can they?Ian Fleming’s series of Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang novels continues to delight readers fifty years after their original publication...

Cruise ships can be compared to small floating cities and unlike their counterparts ashore they actually move around. This makes them unique as one day a ship can be found in Manhattan and a few weeks later she could be in the South China Sea. This book is about ânormal' everyday people who sail on these ships who just like their counterparts ashore do have their faults their hopes and at times achieve their share of greatness. The captain sits at the top of the ships pyramid and if he l...

Newly rich, married, and bored, Brock investigates an upper-class tragedy.Private detective Brock Callahan, onetime star of the Los Angeles Rams, is racing toward a touchdown when the morgue's phone call wakes him up. His only rich relative, Uncle Homer, has just flown through the windshield of his midlife-crisis Ferrari, and Brock will never have to work again. The private detective hangs up his license, marries his longtime girlfriend, and decamps for the Califor...

To hit Brock where it hurts the most, a vengeful stranger targets the people he loves.It starts with the dead cat. Ex-private investigator Brock Callahan finds the Siamese by his mailbox, its throat cut, and assumes it is a message from some crook he put away long ago. Soon a letter arrives -- 'The cat was first. Who is second?' -- and Brock knows the threat is no joke. He hires his protégé, the ambitious young detective Corey Raleigh, to help him guard his wife an...

Twenty tales of deceit, murder, and madness from the king of short mysteries.They find the third body facedown in the wet grass, its head nearly split in half by the axe. The psychopath has claimed three in twenty-four hours -- a sickening toll that forces the police department to let the aging Inspector Fleming stave off retirement for one more case. The cop races to catch the axe maniac before he kills again, lest this final assignment become the one that ruins h...