A Headless Case Part IV in the series is about PI Simon Fintch. The famous TV personality and food writer Roger Woods finds a severed woman’s head in his bag in his locker at the gym in New York. He can’t identify the victim and he can’t understand why he has been given the macabre find. It is completely impossible to identify the victim and he himself can’t understand the motive for the crime. The Police have been investigating the scene around the gym to find the rest of the victims, but they haven’t been able to find anything. There has also been an investigation into whether there is another case of a female body without a head. No such case has been found in the rest of the United States. Simon Fintch is tasked with solving the case and that takes him to Roger Woods's childhood home in the idyllic house from the year 1847 where his sister Melissa Woods still lives. It will once again be an intractable case for Simon, it will take many hearings before he comes up with the solution. This is an extra hard time for Simon who has lots of problems with his family that also take his time and strength. After Simon solves the case, something very unexpected and tragic happens and his whole life will change for a long time to come.

On New Year’s Eve a string of grisly deaths strike a remote English hamlet For centuries Cobbold-in-the-Marsh has been haunted by the ghost of a Jesuit priest who lost his head rather than deny his faith. Since then, there hasn’t been much bloodshed in this peculiar little village, but all that changes during the icy week just after Christmas. First a policeman is found drowned in the canal, a tragic death that shows signs of foul play. Then, as the whole town gathers for midnight mass on New Year’s Eve, the prodigal son of the manor house staggers down the aisle. The congregation thinks he’s drunk—until they notice the blood seeping down his side. Detective-Inspector Thomas Littlejohn and Detective-Sergeant Robert Cromwell are called in from Scotland Yard to oversee the investigation. As they dig into the quirks and secrets of this eerie little enclave, they find that Cobbold is haunted by more than a decapitated priest.

The reader is invited to solve a mystery with Scooby-Doo and friends. Can the gang catch the ghost and save Museum Village?

When the four Stanley children meet Amanda, their new stepsister, they’re amazed to learn that she studies witchcraft. They’re stunned to see her dressed in a strange costume, carrying a pet crow and surrounded by a pile of books about the supernatural. It’s not long before Amanda promises to give witchcraft lessons to David, Jamie, and the twins. But that’s when strange things start happening in their old house. David suspects Amanda of causing mischief, until they learn that the house really was haunted long ago. Legend has it that a ghost cut the head off of a wooden cupid on the stairway. Has the ghost returned to strike again?

This volume highlights current theories of the lexicon from the perspective of its use in sentence understanding. It includes work from researchers in psycholinguistic studies on sentence comprehension.

Lew Archer returns in this gripping mystery, widely recognized as one of acclaimed mystery writer Ross Macdonald's very best, about the search for the long lost heir of the wealthy Galton family. Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. Devious and poetic, The Galton Case displays MacDonald at the pinnacle of his form.