Trouble follows P.I. Stanley Bentworth like a baby duck. When a brutal murder at sea interrupts his romantic getaway with Grace, his new girlfriend, the ship’s captain recruits Stan to investigate. Stan and Grace soon find themselves the targets of a desperate killer who intends to thwart the investigation whatever it takes. If Stan fails to expose and overcome the villain, he could lose Grace forever and find himself treading water and feeding the sharks somewhere in the expanse of ocean ...

Once again Stanley Bentworth, soft-boiled PI, finds himself infatuated with a beautiful client, one who hires him to find her missing aunt, a resident at a local nursing home. What should be a simple case of an elderly lady wandering off becomes what Stan and his associates learn is a horror story, a diabolical scheme involving Medicare fraud and mass-murdered old folks, frozen and stored away and ultimately cremated, all for profit.

teach yourself... Rhythm Jazz Guitar guides you as you learn the basics of playing jazz chords.This book is for student and experienced guitarists who want to move into the realm of jazz accompaniment. You learn a basic repertoire of chord sequences that employ colorful, or hip, voicings. The sequences use chord fingerings that are easy to play, with each chord in comfortable proximity on the fretboard to the previous and next ones.You learn to translate those cryp...

With a month off from Homicide, soft-boiled detective Stanley Bentworth bails out to accept an invitation from an old pal to consult as head of security for a high-tech startup corporation.But when a company executive is discovered with a bullet in his brain, Stanley finds himself drawn into a homicide investigation with overtones of corporate espionage and domestic terrorism, all the while butting heads with his counterparts in the local police. Instead of a much-needed rest, he i...

teach yourself... Jazz Piano Comping guides you as you learn basic accompaniment chording.This book is for entry-level and experienced pianists who want to move into the realm of jazz and standards accompaniment and big band playing.With the knowledge you learn in this book and a disciplined regimen of practice, you will be equipped with skills and tools that not only allow you to sit in at informal jam sessions but to expand your experience into the more advanced ...

The e-book version of the highly successful 7th print edition of this work. You learn the C++ programming language by running exercises with the free Quincy IDE, which you can download for free. The lessons are incremental and each successive one builds upon knowledge you have learned up to that point.

P.I. Stanley Bentworth is on the lam and in trouble again, this time accused of the murders of two mob enforcers. Not only is there a contract on him, the local cops want him too. This time, he’s the prime suspect with means, motive, and opportunity.Means? Both goons are killed by bullets from Stan’s guns.Motive? One of them beats Stan’s young assistant to a pulp; the other one buries Stan alive.Opportunity? He’s carrying and he has no alibi.Stan is hard pre...

Rural southern America in the 1950s, a great time for a boy to grow up. Joey, eleven years old, begins the summer of '51 with a new best friend, Tommy, the new kid next door. Tommy is thirteen, with a down-to-earth country attitude, and wise to the ways of the world with much for Joey to learn.Boys that age could roam, explore, and experiment with their environments without supervision and with the only curfew being, get home in time for supper.Wander along with Tommy and J...

There's nothing funny about diabetes. But from the mind of Al Stevens, long-time columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal, stand-up comedian, and author of "Politically Incorrect Scripts for Comedy Ventriloquists," the lighter side of the disease can make you laugh while it scares the crap out of you with its potential for ruining and shortening your life.From his first diagnosis, which he blames on a topless bar, to memory losses and hallucinations, to getting thrown out of a pharmacy, St...

The bodies are piling up. Sanford, freelance consultant, assassin, and doer of odd jobs, contracts his deadly skills through a Darknet brokerage service known to underworld insiders as Bugsy's List.Sanford's assignments pit him against cops, other assassins, and the syndicate. The only likely winners in this bloody charade are two young Darknet entrepreneurs actively exploiting a wave of crime warfare as it spreads like wildfire across the City of Brotherly Love.

A mysterious Darknet presence has begun to slaughter the homeless and display its handiwork on the dark web. Viewers around the world can vote with Bitcoin cryptocurrency to determine the fate of each subject.Rodney Bentworth, legendary eastern seaboard hacker, works with the city's Cybercrimes and Homicide units to crack the case.When the killer sets his sights on unsuspecting college students, Rodney and the department step up their efforts to find the murderer and bring ...

Drug dealers find high-tech markets for their products, and young people are dying from the lethal drugs peddled across the Darknet and delivered to their doorsteps by drones.Private Investigator Stanley Bentworth teams with his associate Sanford and his nephew Rodney to crack the case of a teenage girl who falls victim to these lawless predators. The Darknet underworld, threatened by Stanley's inquiries, unleashes an assassin to silence him with a squadron of killer drones program...