This is the place to showcase my book collection of primarily of Nick Carter and Carter Brown books. I started collecting with these two authors back in 1980 while on a fishing trip with my father and grandfather to Northern Minnesota.
Nick Polo smells good money when he is
hired to sting a powerful executive cheating at the country club poker
game. Fourteen grand later, Polo is a happy man.
But then computer-chip mogul Ronald Dettman begins to fight back, and
Polo finds himself the prime suspect in a murder investigation.
Set in the harsh Puritan
community of seventeenth-century Boston, a tale of an adulterous
entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals the concerns with the tension between the public and the private
selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on her
inner strength and certainty of spirit to emerge as the first true
heroine of American fiction. Arthur Dimmesdale, trapped by the rules of
society, stands as a classic study of a self divided.
Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. The Scarlet Letter was written in 1850 and is considered to be Hawthorne's greatest work
Printing History
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Ticknor, Reed & Fields
1850
The Films
1926
Cast
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Lillian Gish - Hester Prynne Lars Hanson - The Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale Henry B. Walthall - Roger Chillingworth Karl Dane - Master Giles William H. Tooker - The Governor Marcelle Corday - Mistress Hibbins Fred Herzog - The Jailer Jules Cowles - The Beadle Mary Hawes - Patience Joyce Coad - Pearl
1934
Cast
Directed by Robert G. Vignola
Colleen Moore as Hester Prynne Hardie Albright as Arthur Dimmesdale Henry B. Walthall as Roger Chillingworth Cora Sue Collins as Pearl Alan Hale, Sr. as Bartholomew Hockings Virginia Howell as Abigail Crakstone William Kent as Sampson Goodfellow William Farnum as Gov. Bellingham
1995
Cast
Directed by
Roland Joffé
Demi Moore as Hester Prynne Gary Oldman as Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale Robert Duvall as Roger Chillingworth Edward Hardwicke as John Bellingham Robert Prosky as Horace Stonehall Roy Dotrice as Rev. Thomas Cheever Joan Plowright as Harriet Hibbons
A politician’s son gets involved in a murder, and drags Brady along with him
Tom Baron is running for governor on the Republican ticket and needs his
image to be squeaky clean. He employs men like Brady Coyne, a
compassionate Boston attorney, to keep problems far away from his
campaign. But when his son doesn’t come home one night, Tom’s political
strategy becomes a criminal matter. His son’s girlfriend
has been murdered, and the boy has no alibi. To protect his friend’s
political ambitions, Brady digs into the investigation, finding a trail
of drugs and corruption that stretches far across the Eastern seaboard. Tom
Baron may be his friend, but Brady Coyne will stomach no cover-up. If
the son is guilty and Tom is involved, Brady will come down on the
would-be governor with a fury that will make Boston politics look like a
student council election.
Nick Carter Is On An Explosive Seek-And-Destroy Mission!
Killmaster #244
Nick Carter "Killmaster" is out for the espionage coup of the decade. In a widely perilous power play, the Soviets have moved all vital intelligence material into one building. Located in the city of Sukhumi, on the Black Sea, the installation is a treasure trove of top secret documents A dangerous blunder for the Soviets. A chance of a lifetime for AXE and Agent N3. His assignment is to snatch what's valuable and destroy the rest. Leaving nothing for the Soviets but memories, corpses, and ashes. The Black Sea turns red with blood as Nick launches a one man invasion of the most heavily guarded piece of real estate in Russia.....
Printing History
Written by Jack Garside (1924-)
Berkley Publishing Group
Jove Books
Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Put TV comedy write Larry Baker on a plush private island with three beautiful women, two jealous husbands, one escaped lunatic.....
And what do you get?
Lots of laughs and five corpses.
Anyone for Monte Cristo?
It's
a game Hoyle never heard of. You play it stripped to your polka-dot
shorts. If your the boy type player, that is. The playground is an old
French-style chateau on an island off the West Coast, complete with
dungeon, trapdoor, and plenty of mantraps...like your playmate for
instance, a torrid blonde, 100% natural, 100% nude, and 100% up to no
good.......
Robert McGinnis Cover
In this frightening frolic through a tycoons island fun house, Larry
Bake, TV writer, finds plots, people, and perils that defy even his wild
imagination........
Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)
Sir Rudri Hopkinson, an eccentric amateur archaeologist, is determined
to recreate ancient rituals at the temple of Eleusis in Greece in the
hope of summoning the goddess Demeter. He gathers together a motley
collection of people to assist in the experiment, including a rival
scholar, a handsome but cruel photographer and a trio of mischievous
children. But when one of the group disappears, and a severed head turns
up in a box of snakes, detective and psychoanalyst Mrs
Bradley is called upon to investigate.
Printing History
Written by Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell (1901-1983)
a deadly tornado ripped through my hometown in Iowa.
This event was would be later known as the May 1968 tornado outbreak.
The May 1968 tornado outbreak was a significant and deadly tornado outbreak that struck most of the central and southern United States on May 15 to May 16, 1968. Producing 46 tornadoes, the outbreak killed at least 72 people including 45 in Arkansas alone. The outbreak also produced two F5s in Iowa. It was one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in the United States since the 1960s and is one of the deadliest outbreaks in Iowa history.
The Charles City Tornado of May 15, 1968
On the afternoon of May 15, 1968, an F5 tornado moved through Butler, Chickasaw, Floyd, Franklin, and Howard
Counties in northeast Iowa. The tornado moved northeast from north of Hansell, passing east of Aredale, west
of Greene, east of Marble Rock, and devastating Charles City. The tornado grew larger and more intense
as it approached Charles City, striking the city at approximately 4:50 pm. The huge tornado passed directly
through town, destroying 337 homes and 1250 vehicles, and causing about $30 million in damage. Ironically, the
tornado damaged 8 churches in town, but left the bars standing. Debris from Charles City was found as far away
as LeRoy, MN, nearly 35 miles to the north. The tornado continued to the northeast hitting Elma, where it caused
another $1.5 million in damage. From Elma the tornado turned to the north and dissipated south of Chester, 4 miles
south of the Minnesota border. The tornado was on the ground for 65 miles, reaching a width of 400 yards.
Nearly 2000 homes were damaged or destroyed. All 13 deaths occurred in Floyd County. 450 injuries were
reported in Floyd County and 12 injuries in Howard County.
Approximate path of the F5 tornado that struck Charles City, IA on May 15, 1968.
On the same day, another F5 tornado moved north-northeast from southwest of Oelwein to Maynard and east of
Randalia in Fayette County, IA. Homes were leveled and swept away in both Oelwein and Maynard. The warning
sirens sounded for only 15 seconds before power failed in Oelwein. Nearly 1000 homes were damaged or destroyed
along the path, and 34 people had to be hospitalized. Almost 1,000 families were affected. The damage from this
tornado totaled $21 million.
Photo by then Floyd County Sheriff L.L. Lane, along Highway 14 just before the
tornado hit Charles City, IA
In addition to these F5 tornadoes, an F2 tornado touched down 6 miles south of Cresco, IA, two weak F1 tornadoes
touched down in Dodge County, MN, and F1 tornadoes occurred in Fillmore County, MN and Chickasaw County, IA.
Baseball size hail (2.75") also fell in Fayette County, IA.
The Lewis And Clark Expedition (May 1804-September 1806)
Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark led an expedition that was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. It became known as The Lewis and Clark Expedition.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States, departing in May, 1804 from St. Louis on the Mississippi River, making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast.
William Clark (l) and Meriwether Lewis (c) with Sacagawea,
The Corps of Discovery departed from Camp Dubois at 4 p.m. on May 14, 1804, and met up with Lewis in St. Charles, Missouri, a short time later, marking the beginning of the voyage to the Pacific coast. The Corps followed the Missouri River westward. Soon they passed La Charrette, the last Euro-American settlement on the Missouri River.
References to Lewis and Clark scarcely appeared in history books even during the United States Centennial in 1876 and the expedition was largely forgotten. Lewis and Clark began to gain new attention around the start of the 20th century. Both the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in St. Louis, and the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition,
in Portland, Oregon, showcased Lewis and Clark as American pioneers.
However, the story remained relatively shallow a celebration of US
conquest and personal adventures, until the mid-century, since which time
it has been more thoroughly researched and retold in many forms to a
growing audience. In the 2000s the bicentennial of the expedition further elevated popular interest in Lewis and Clark. Today, no U.S. exploration party is more famous, and no American expedition leaders are more instantly recognizable by name.
The next stop in the 2014 USA Fiction Challenge is the beautiful state of Hawaii
The Betrayers
by Donald Hamilton
Matt Helm #10
In sunny Hawaii, a U.S. troopship is scheduled to blow sky high. It's time to call Matt Helm
Far
out in the Pacific, among the sunny islands of Hawaii, a dark venomous
plot was being engineered by one of the United States' own agents, an
angel-faces man called the Monk, who had a special fondness for high
explosive.
His target: An American troopship with three thousand U.S. soldiers
scheduled to blow sky high. Unless Matt Helm could stop it. But first
Matt had to trust the beautiful stranger who claimed to be his
sister-in-law and insisted that his former "wife" had just willed him a
million dollars..
Printing History
Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)
My Life Was Perfectly Simple. Then He Walked Through The Door... I'm
private investigator Laura Holt. My agency was hired to protect a
valuable shipment of precious gems but with one catch: the client wanted
to meet my boss. Only problem was that he didn't exist. I made him up
because no one would ever take a female investigator seriously. But one
day this total stranger with ocean blue eyes, a dazzling smile and at
least five identities tried to steal those jewels. The next thing I knew
he had assumed a sixth identity, moved into my office, moved into my
life, and despite my best efforts, he moved into my heart. We've been
together for five years; I married him (well, sort of) and I still don't
know his real name! I suppose it really doesn't matter anymore because
from the moment he walked through the door, the entire world came to
know him as REMINGTON STEELE
