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Who Said Girls Always Play Nice? Intrepid golf reporter Pete Hacker agrees to cover an LPGA event as a favor to an old friend, but when he arrives in Miami, he finds an organization that appears to be run as the private fiefdom of Wynnona "Big Win" Stilwell, one of the tour's fading stars. Digging into the story, Hacker begins to uncover some of Big Wyn's secret dealings. And that's when the trouble starts. Hacker's friend is beaten and the to...

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Excerpt from Frosts in Wisconsin: Occurrence, Prediction, Methods of PreventionSummary conditions. Favoring frost. 2335n Atmospheric. Temperature Movement Wind direction Humidity Dew point. Pressure, barometric Above normal Sky Clear Local. Elevation. Valleys Hill tops. Level or northerly Southerly. Water Near and to W. Or Far or to E. Soil Warm, dry Cold, wet. Soil covering Light.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousa...

In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet, Jesus, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages bea...

A ripping good yarn in the hands of a master storyteller...this could be more exciting than the back nine on Sunday! A body is buried in a bunker three weeks before the start of the Masters golf tournament. When intrepid golf writer Pete Hacker begins to investigate, he runs up against a wall of silence from official Augusta and a feared killer from the South American drug cartels lurking in the shadows. And he begins to learn about an unsavor...

A Deadly Round of Golf! Hacker is back in an exciting new mystery. Invited to play in a buddy's weekend Member-Guest tournament, golf writer Pete Hacker encounters the president of the Shuttlecock Club, a strange, tantrum-throwing cheat. And when the man is murdered during the tournament, there are plenty of suspects. Was it the club pro, having an affair with the dead man's sexy young wife? One of the man's business associates, whom he regula...

Death Stalks The Fairways! Behind the scenes of the Carolinas Open, golf writer Pete Hacker is confronted with the death of an up-and-coming star. Was his death an accident? Or was it murder? A drug-dealing caddie, a desperate golf groupie and a strange, Bible-thumping chaplain are just some of the characters Hacker encounters as he tries to sort out the truth. The story turns deadly when Hacker's own life is threatened. From the first tee to ...

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Peter James' bestselling Roy Grace series of crime novels is made all the more compelling by his in-depth research into the work of Brighton and Hove police, and he sets them in a world every bit as gritty as the real thing. Now, he and Graham Bartlett, a long-serving detective and Commander of the city for four years, have written a gripping account of Brighton's most challenging modern cases, many of which Bartlett helped solve.Death Comes K...

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In Sappho's Journal, bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her loves, her sense of beauty, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us...

In Christ's Journal, bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett takes a daring step in this unique novel and places the reader for the first time in the shoes of The Fisherman. In this finely crafted and historically accurate portrait of the ancient Biblical world, Bartlett recreates the moving story of the last months of Christ's life as Jesus Himself may have experienced them when He brought to mankind a message of love and enduring hope. Be...

Correspondence between author Rexroth, a "presiding figure of the San Francisco Renaissance, " and publisher Laughlin, spanning forty years. Introduction, notes on the text, select bibliography, index. Errata sheet laid in.