Books I've Read

A young girl, Tiffany Aching, rescues her country from the Elf Queen or Faerie Queen, I not sure which.

A clockmaker builds a clock that stops time, I think.

The dwarves and the trolls are apparently going to re-enact a horrific battle right in Ankh-Morpork. Not good for Vimes and the watch.

Unseen University is manipulated into fielding a team to compete in the "football" league.

The elemental spirit of winter gets a crush on Tiffany. Very good, kept reading parts out loud.

Three witches head off to foreign lands to foil a fairy godmother's plans. Have I read this before? I surely do not remember it!

CONTENTS:
The Perfect Crime by Max Allan Collins
The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin M. Schutz
Gun Music by Loren D. Estleman
Saving Grace by Joyce Harrington
Malibu Tag Team by Jonathan Valin
Sad-Eyed Blonde by Dick Lochte
The Empty Sleeve by W. R. Philbrick
Dealer's Choice by Sara Paretsky
Red Rock by Julie Smith
The Deepest South by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Consultation in the Dark by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
In the Jungle of Cities by Roger L. Simon
Star Bright by John Lutz
Stardust Kill by Simon Brett
Locker 246 by Robert J. Randisi
Bitter Lemons by Stuart M. Kaminsky
The Man Who Knew Dick Bong by Robert Crais
Essence D'Orient by Edward D. Hoch
In the Line of Duty by Jeremiah Healy
The Alibi by Ed Gorman
The Devil's Playground by James Grady
Asia by Eric Van Lustbader
Mice by Robert Campbell
The Pencil by Raymond Chandler
Sixty-Four Squares by J. Madison Davis
Summer in Idle Valley by Roger L. Simon

Conn becomes the apprentice of the cranky wizard Nevery. He figures out that someone is stealing the magic of the town. Even though there is a map and appendices, this story never really came together for me.

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.