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In this fable about what happens to liars and boasters, a gentleman’s collar decides to marry and proposes to various female objects, embroidering his accomplishments and good qualities at every turn.

There was once a fine gentleman, all of whose moveables were a boot-jack and a hair-comb: but he had the finest false collars in the world; and it is about one of these collars that we are now to hear a story. - It was so old, that it began to think of marriage; and it happened that it came to be washed in company with a garter.

MANUFACTURED is a short true-crime novella — a single case file. Written by Frank M. Ahearn, a longtime blackmail intervention specialist and author of the New York Times bestseller How to Disappear, this novella documents one blackmail situation exactly as it unfolded — from the first inconsistencies to the moment the pressure quietly collapsed. There are no dramatic confrontations. No chases. No heroic rescues. What unfolds instead is a slow reveal: how a believable narrative takes hold, how authority reinforces the wrong assumptions, and how money begins to move based on belief ...

There was once a fine gentleman, all of whose moveables were a boot-jack and a hair-comb: but he had the finest false collars in the world; and it is about one of these collars that we are now to hear a story. - It was so old, that it began to think of marriage; and it happened that it came to be washed in company with a garter...

A grieving accountant. A former mistress. A stash of crypto secrets. A grieving accountant seeking justice for his murdered brother finds himself on the run with a senator’s former mistress who knows too many secrets. Starting his own investigation… After his brother is killed by a car bomb, Armin Dhillon quits his job to conduct his own investigation into the murder. His efforts lead him to a former senator’s ex-mistress who is now a devout Christian trying to leave her past behind. Only her sordid past won’t let her go, and neither will Armin, who thinks she has the answer that ...