An old-style gangster novel, it recounts the story of Dillon, who once carried a gun for Boss Nelson. When Nelson met his end, Dillon went underground, turning up later in small-town, Platsville, fixing boxing matches and bent upon setting up his own gang. A year later, he becomes a Kansas city boss, with a live-in mistress, hard-faced Myra Hogan.
The storm that's raging when fisherman's daughter Daisy Appleby is born in a village just north of Sunderland could be taken as a warning of a turbulent life ahead. It's during another storm fifteen years later that her father and brothers are lost and Daisy rescues William, heir of a wealthy Southwick family, with whom she falls in love. Soon, as her reward for saving him, Daisy is working for William's irascible aunt, while local lad Alf continues to court her. Warned off by Daisy's grandmother, William denies his own feelings and so it will be many years later, after much hardship and turmoil, that Daisy finds the happiness she deserves, amidst the drama of the Great War.
A second crime novel featuring private investigator Fran Varady who is ridiculed by the police when she tells them about the kidnap of a girl witnessed by an alcoholic vagrant. Then, two days later, she is approached by a business associate of her father whose daughter has also been kidnapped.
Novel for kids. Ages 4-8 What happens after a bear breaks the fast of hibernation? In this rhyming follow-up to Bear Snores On (2002), Bear emerges as a lean, mean, eating machine. His animal friends help him find food, and he munches his way through the forest. As his grub crawl proceeds, both the words of the refrain ("But the bear wants more!") and Bear himself increase in size. Other friends busily plan a party for Bear back at his lair. Later all the friends must work together to pry the overfed, very stuck Bear from the entrance to his den. The story is fun and funny, but it takes a backseat to the illustrations.
At Christmas 1975 a group of Californian students experiment with LSD. One of them, Michael Quinn kidnaps the son of an English professor. When he is released from jail twenty years later, a mysterious young English woman named Joni Lascelles begins to ask questions that will unravel the past...
