Books I've Read

Nameless tries to give a woman her deserved insurance payment, but she refuses the $50,000. What is up with that?

Expanded from a story in "Scenarios", an old Italian grandfather asks Nameless to look into what his granddaughter is up to. No good, is what it is.

Bill is involved with gambling addicts. This is why we can't have nice things.

Nameless is asked to find out who the parents of an adopted woman really were. Quite a mess is stirred up. Kerry and Nameless are finally married.

Eberhardt has committed suicide.

Nameless (Bill?) follows a guy around to funerals. Kerry is diagnosed with breast cancer.

Tamara spots a suspected kidnapping!

Written with Barry N. Malzberg of twenty-five stories. Some were enjoyable, some were not of the kind I care for. I liked the Luna immigration inspector stories the most.

The Nameless Detective investigates why a reclusive woman leaves her job in the city and returns, secretively, to her father's farm. Nameless is nearly killed by the reason, of course.

Runyon goes to a small town to serve a subpoena, gets whacked on head. Kerry gets radiation for her cancer.

Fourteen short stories, pretty good.

Nameless investigates a locked-room mystery. Several valuable books are stolen from a rich-guy's library.

Nameless meets up with some White Supremacists while investigating the disappearance of a college student and her new boyfriend.

A homeless man, Spook, is murdered. Nameless is hired to find out who he was. Boy, they certainly find out!

Part of the Red Hot Reads series of various genres, the stories are by several authors and were chosen for the book by Philip Pullman. My favorites were The Cross Of Lorraine, by Isaac Asimov, and The Newdick Helicopter, by Leslie Charteris.

A bedraggled young boy shows up at Bob and Joan's house with few memories but of formerly being a rat. A charming story which I didn't see ending as it did, till near the end.

Three children run away from an oppressive orphanage and are aided by a mythical English character named for the springs in his boots that allow him to jump high buildings. An enjoyable story, partially in cartoon form.

The third and final book in the series, Lyra and Will save the day. Christians may not like this series too much.

A short (97 page) funny sweet little story of a girl who wants to be a firework maker like her father.

Lyra joins forces with gypsies to rescue a kinapped friend in Lapland. Very good.