Books I've Read

Veronica McCreedy, #1. A crabby old lady goes to Antarctica to see a penguin research station, even though the scientists there told her stay away as they didn't have facilities for tourists, much less an 86 year old person. Very heart-warming story.

A fake blackmail goes wrong. I think this is an expansion of one of those short stories I read. One of the best of the series I've read, so far.

I was hoping this was going to be girls, but instead, it is about a guy who is building bombs to blowup everyone who ever crossed him. Nameless goes fishing in the mountains. Of course, the bomb-guy is there.

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.