William Morrow and Company

"Recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures." --

When confidence man Beano X. Bates is caught cheating at cards, New Jersey Mafia boss Joe "Dancer" Rina beats him so badly that he nearly dies. Then Beano's cousin Carol is brutally murdered just before she was to testify against Rina. In revenge Beano teams up with a woman prosecutor -- she is also out to get Joe -- and together they play a con game that will set other gangsters against Rina and put him away. The unlikely pair trek from Atlantic...

In Seattle, police detective, J.P. Baumont, investigates the gruesome murder--toes and fingers chopped--of a fishing boat captain. It turns out the man's father was a guard in a World War II concentration camp and may have stolen a fortune in gold from the prisoners.

Hired to protect the treasures of a globe-trotting adventurer, Bertha Cool and Donald Lam confront an impossible crime: how could anything be smuggled out of a dinner party -- least of all a 6-foot-long blowgun -- when the guests were X-rayed coming and going? But that's nothing compared to the crime they face next: An impossible murder...

"Presents the further adventures of a motorcycle-riding mouse who goes to school and becomes the instigator of an investigation of rodents and the peacemaker for two lonely boys." --

A tragic past traps a former Hollywood stuntman in a web of international intrigue... Two pirates do battle on an old junk ship in Singapore Harbor. They leap nimbly from deck to rigging, crossing swords like fencing masters. And then one surprises the other, slicing a rope and sending the unfortunate pirate tumbling into the bay. This is how stuntman Angelo Sacchetti dies. Edward Cauthorne was his opponent, a fellow stuntman whose career died along...

A widow in distress, her attentive, very wealthy swain, and his overly-protective nieces and nephews provide Perry Mason with one of the most challenging cases of his brilliant legal career. It al lbean when the attractive Mrs. Anson came to Perry Mason for advice on how to handle a shadow--a real, live shadow, that is. Mason figured that where there was a shadow of any description, there was substance. The point was how much substance, and what kind?...