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July 1912. New York is sweltering under the longest heatwave since records began. Small-time gambler Herman Rosenthal is shot down in front of the Metropole Hotel on 43rd Street. Normally, the killing of an insignificant underworld figure like Herman would hardly raise an eyebrow. Such things happen every day. But this murder is different. Herman is already front page news. He'd done the unthinkable. He went squealing to the newspapers accusing a prominent police lieutenant of graft and extortion. The story is a sensation. Now Herman is dead and Lieutenant Charles Becker is in the frame. ...

Creeping Torment. Crawling Terror. Twelve-year-old Holly Harcourt is tormented by nightmares. Ordinary nightmares are scary enough, but Holly's are much worse than that. Her nightmares come true. They are visions of terrible things that will happen. One night, Holly dreams of a plane exploding over Toledo, Ohio, killing hundreds of people. She knows the airport where the plane is to take off and the name of the carrier. Holly phones the authorities, doing her best to have the plane grounded, but she is not believed and is written-off as a crank. When the plane explodes as predicted, the ...

"Ideas are dangerous things. They are like drops of acid burning away our comforting certainties, making holes in the fabric of our cherished beliefs." This often surprising collection of incendiary essays takes the reader on an intellectual journey through the myths of mass culture. It takes a piercing look at such diverse subjects as money, suicide, self-pity, art, beauty, ugliness, religion and the nature of evil and power in its various forms. It explores such questions as: is an afterlife possible? How much freedom is enough? What are celebrities for? Are the old really human? All of ...

Hitler's niece is found shot to death in his apartment. The Nazi party is on the verge of power. A scandal could ruin everything... It is 1931. Germany is in turmoil. The Communists and the Nazis are locked in a desperate struggle for supremacy. Violent clashes erupt in the beerhalls and the streets. The German people are bewildered and looking for a saviour to rescue them from fear, political uncertainty and the economic chaos that's thrown millions out of work. A scandal swirling around the suspicious death of his niece could ruin Hitler's chances forever. Two Munich detectives, Kurt ...

🎙️ A Pod of Wings and Filth🖤 A podcast where two voracious fantasy readers dive into the magical, gritty, and sometimes downright filthy world of fantasy!🪽 On this podcast, we: 🔮 Chat about our favorite fantasy books 🐉 Do Deep Dives into our favorite series 🖤 Do Buddy Reads 📚 Serve opinions, enthusiasm, and our never-ending TBR pilesSo grab your favorite brew ☕, maybe a magical artifact or two 🗡️🔮, and join us as we dive into all things magic, wings, and… a little bit of filth. Follow Us 📸 IG: @apodofwingsandfilth 🎵 TikTok: @wings.n.filth ▶️ ...

It is 1953. A new world order is in place. Dwight D. Eisenhower is president of the United States. Queen Elizabeth II is on the English Throne. Uncle Joe Stalin is dead, and the Russians have the atomic bomb. In Washington DC, Senator Joe McCarthy is terrorising government agencies with his Communist witch hunts. The whole country is in the grip of cold war paranoia. Fear levels are at an all-time high. Bombs could start falling at any moment. People harbour the gloomy suspicion that the end of the world is near. Communism and McCarthy aren't President Eisenhower's only problems. He's under...

Love, Secrets and Murder... An older woman. A troubled boy. A deadly pact. It is the summer of 1960. J.F.K. is making his historic run for the White House. The young Mohammed Ali is winning gold at the Rome Olympics and Alfred Hitchcock is terrifying movie audiences with Psycho. For teenager, Bobby Forbes, it is the summer of forbidden love and lost innocence. At the sleepy lakeside resort of Pheasant Point, Bobby is hired by the seductive, thirty-eight-year-old artist, Phoebe Quine, to pose for a painting. In the sweltering heat of those high summer months the troubled boy and the damaged ...

Selma, Alabama, is a dangerous place for ex-Union officers in the spring of 1865. The Civil War has just ended and the Confederate States are now occupied enemy territory. In the defeated south all Yankees are fiercely hated. But a special venom is reserved for the Treasury agents sent by Washington to suck the very marrow out of the bones of the Confederacy. In the closing months of the war the bankrupt Confederate government is forced to exchange bonds for bales of cotton, which they desperately need to raise foreign credit. The cotton is marked and left on the plantations until it can be...