As the greenest private eye at the Aalborg Detective Agency, Bick Bates gets assigned a “nuisance file,” a case nobody else wants to touch. Herbie Barnwell was a skid-row bum who was still in a coma, the result of a mysterious mugging. A new hire, Bick is a “college-boy professional,” low man on the totem pole amid a dozen or so agents, the majority being stogie-chomping ex-cops. His colleagues looked down on a callow youth who was there to run errands for the bosses or sit down with prosp...

Gary Alexander does it again, another experimental novel that will tickle your intellect while it plucks at your emotions. Using the periodical table as its framework, this story unfolds element by element. “You’ll have a hard time pigeonholing this book,” editorial director Hollis George said of Alexander’s last novel. “But you’ll be talking about this innovative work for weeks after you finish reading it.” With this new novel, he says, “Ditto.”

Like father, like son. Whoever coined that one had never heard of Joe and Stanley Buckley. Joe is a ne'er-do-well fugitive who tends bar in Belize. All he knows of the son he hasn't seen in years is that "he likes computers," the understatement of the year. Susan, Joe's ex and Stanley's mother pleads with him to come up to an Oregon beach to attend his son's upcoming wedding. Joe barely makes it in time for the nuptials and stays on through Father’s Day a week later, raising havo...

It's a hilariously evil twist on Humpty Dumpty and seven other fairy tales.

Like father, like son. Whoever coined that one had never heard of Joe and Stanley Buckley. Joe is a ne'er-do-well fugitive who tends bar in Belize. All he knows of the son he hasn't seen in years is that "he likes computers," the understatement of the year. Susan, Joe's ex and Stanley's mother pleads with him to come up to an Oregon beach to attend his son's upcoming wedding. Joe barely makes it in time for the nuptials and stays on through Father's Day a week later, raising havoc througho...

Gary Alexander does it again, another experimental novel that will tickle your intellect while it plucks at your emotions. Using the periodical table as its framework, this story unfolds element by element. "You'll have a hard time pigeonholing this book," editorial director Hollis George said of Alexander's last novel. "But you'll be talking about this innovative work for weeks after you finish reading it." With this new novel, he says, "Ditto."

As the greenest private eye at the Aalborg Detective Agency, Bick Bates gets assigned a "nuisance file," a case nobody else wants to touch. Herbie Barnwell was a skid-row bum who was still in a coma, the result of a mysterious mugging. A new hire, Bick is a "college-boy professional," low man on the totem pole amid a dozen or so agents, the majority being stogie-chomping ex-cops. His colleagues looked down on a callow youth who was there to run errands for the bosses or sit down with prosp...

Here are 17 entertaining tales from Gary Alexander with themes you might think were ripped from the pages of the Weekly International Tattler:Roswell Woman Is An Alien Love ChildKiller Theme Parks From HellSatan Adapts To Times, Offers Lease-Option On SoulsMidget Makes Mucho Moola For The MobEinstein’s Time-Space Continuum Is A Car WreckBanana Republic Goes BananasJFK Assassin Still On The LooseReincarnated Aesop Updates Fable...

Ten Golden Moments chronicles the life of broadcast-journalist Gary Alexander Azerier through the unique perspective of a series of extraordinary and unforgettable "moments" in his life. Spanning the years from the 1940's to 2012, these formidable episodes are not only replete with an up-close view through a closed window of time but are recorded specifically to resonate with the reader, culminating in the discovery of his or her own Golden Moments and passion for life.

Nosebleeds from WashingtonHeights reveals a number of salient episodes that took place in WashingtonHeights between 1940 and 1958. Written as poignant short stories, the tales are replete with what for many may be long forgotten people, places and events. For some, it will be an unforgettable passport back into those lost years filled with the kind of detail and stuff of which memories are made, which will jar and delight.

Short-story writer Gary Alexander Azerier has gathered this collection of tales and tidbits certain to delight and intrigue all the way from the chilling and uniquely spooky Shade and Cordovan to the gripping nostalgic tales of Bob Shepherd and the Little Man, Stevens Window, and Auld Acquaintance to the very funny but red alerts of Password and Security. This singular anthology is for the discriminating reader who will also be privy to the authors exclusive Most Difficult Test in the Worl...

Pineapple Grove & Other Short Stories is a book of ecclectic stories from the philosophical and nostalgic to the satiric and whimsical. For the science-fiction fan there are several of those included in this collection, as well as a take off or two on the pulp type horror talesof the fiftieswith some surprising twists. The collection of stories in Pineapple Grove contains short stories in boththe classical tradition of cozy yarn spinning and the kind of tales rarely stumbled on today. Read...