Jane Whitefield, who helps people in trouble to disappear, has to disappear herself after she becomes the target of killers who want to close her business. To find Jane one of the killers, a woman, puts her feminine charms to work on Jane's fiance, Carey, who is feeling lonely because of Jane's absence. By the author of Dance for the Dead.

Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the law. Then he met a P.I. who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive institution with a sideline in keeping its wealthy clients happy and out of trouble. They pay Neal's college tuition, and Neal gets an education that can't be found in any textbook, from learning how to trail a suspect to mastering...

A collection of thirteen original stories that take academic anxiety to whole new realms.

"A personal history of comedy from the 1950s to the present, with interviews conducted by the author." --publisher. Steinberg, a comic institution himself, provides a personal history of comedy from the 1950s to the present. From the historic greats to the greats of right now, Steinberg makes clear why he loves comedy and the comedians who have been by his side in his work, and in his life, for more than sixty years. -- adapted from jacket.

"Truth. Beauty. Experience. Emotion. The artists included in Art journey : portraits and figures say that they have discovered all of these things and more through their work. Sometimes it's in the eyes. Or perhaps it's in the hint of an expression that seems to beckon one closer, begging to share a secret. Maybe it's in the tilt of a chin. Or the posture or stance of one's subject. But in a well executed portrait or figure? Something special, something...

Examines "the greatest works of world literature, from the Iliad to Don Quixote to The Great Gatsby. Around 100 ... articles explore landmark novels, short stories, plays, and poetry that reinvented the art of writing in their time, whether Ancient Greece, post-classical Europe, or modern-day Korea"--Amazon.com.