Robert Edmond Alter

• Mar-1993
• / Suspense
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A masterpiece of lurid menace from the underbelly of the South.

On his first day working for Cochrane's carny, Thaxton found that his new boss was married to his ex-wife.  On the second day he found his boss's body--with one of May's throwin...

• Mar-1993
• / Suspense
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The swamp had no name and no landmarks: just cypress, Spanish moss, and alligators -- and a wrecked plane with eighty thousand dollars inside it. The man who found the Money Plane could have any woman he wanted -- even the deliriously carnal Dorry Me...

• Aug-2017
• / Historical
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THE DARK KEEP is a story of 13th-century England. Martin of Tressling, an orphan raised by a Norman uncle, yet kept at an indefinable distance by the same uncle, while strangely befriended by their Saxon enemies. Martin struggles with divided loya...

• Aug-2017
• / Historical
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Shad Holly and Nat Towne are brought together when they are involved with a British patrol in the streets of Boston. Shad, an experienced frontier fighter, and Nat, a young actor, eventually are engaged in dangerous missions during the siege of Bosto...

• Aug-2017
• / General Fiction
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Jess Hanna is shanghaied aboard a whaling ship. Unlike most boys in the 1820s, Jess has no desire for the danger of a sailor's life, and he suffers greatly from the filth and backbreaking labor of the whaler. From the beginning, the voyage is bese...

• Aug-2017
• / General Fiction
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When a young alligator tad with a disfigured snout brings humiliation and discomfort to Dad Peps, there begins a legendary feud between "Shovel Nose," who grows to the stature of a great gator, and Dad Peps, who fancies himself as a great gator gr...

• May-2018
• / Mystery
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Cheops' daughter, the story goes, earned the money for her pyramid by practicing what was even then the Oldest Profession. Her price had been one stone per man. She built a pretty big pyramid. Many centuries later, beautiful Greta Brandt also made so...