8 Ergebnisse.

The Usher Orlop Mystery Series 1 & 2 The Golden Janus: Usher Orlop is commissioned to create a silver death mask of a slain boy. His serious doubts about the direction of the police investigation leads Usher and his jeweler friend, Anasette, to get involved. Since artists view the world a little differently, they find threads that suggest alternate scenarios. The Pewter Masks: When Usher and Anasette rent the famed old whorehouse in downtown D...

Losers-Weepers-After four decades, again there was an alien spaceship sitting in Alvi and Stud's backyard. This time their old adversary was seeking human help to repel carnivorous invaders, who were eating their way through the Czarian homeland and who would soon turn their appetites toward Earth. Not only must Alvi and Studs battle the space raiders, but cajole a skeptical US government and outwit the military which covets otherworld technol...

The Nickel Trophy: An unusual commission offer for the apparently simple task of sculpting a memorial to a boy, accidentally killed 40 years ago, turns hazardous, raising suspicions as to the real cause of death. Usher must sort through feuding communities and shattered dreams to come up with the Nickel Trophy. The Bronze Bones: An elderly blind client accused Usher of making silver masks of ringers instead of her twin granddaughters. While cl...

The Brass Portraits": An art school chum arranges for Usher to sculpt portraits of six retired Army colonels. The friend is brutally murdered along with two colonels. Usher and Anasette have their work cut out for them helping a widow, six orphans and the four remaining clients with a serial killer on the loose. "The Zinc Ormolu": When Usher begins to replace a broken piece of zinc ormolu on an antique desk, he finds a mummified body inside. ...

The Usher Orlop Mystery Series 7 & 8 The Silver Scepter: Usher travels to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico to execute a silver scepter for an unusual client. Usher finds his creation is used to bash in the skull of a woman. Usher rescues her tiny son and must find a way to get the tyke out of harm's way. The Rhodium Dragon: Usher is provided with a magnificent jade box on which to mount a silver mask of a client's grandson. The surfacing of the l...

When artist H.C. Lee arrives in Korea for his army tour of duty, he is assigned the job of painting a general

What happens when you sit down on your back stoop to drink your morning coffee and find a disabled space ship sitting in your back yard? Of course, you declare "Finders-Keepers." The Finding wasn't hard, but the Keeping proves to be the problem. The US government wants to hide the mere existence of aliens. The military covets the technology, as does every other government and industrial entity in the world. The religionists must prove it is al...

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