Can you ever be too old to dream? Sixty-five-year-old Walter Williams sure isn't. Walt always dreamed of being a hero. When retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be, he decides it's the perfect time to achieve his dream and help Lady Justice. So he decides to become a cop. Follow Walt as he leaves the realty world and retirement to solve crimes and bring perps to justice. It's a bumpy but often hilarious ride! Walt and his partner, Ox, find very unorthodox ways of bringing criminals to justice. After all, Walt has to rely on his ability to outsmart the bad guys. And they have plenty of help from others in the senior set. Meet sixty-five-year-old Willie, the former con man who has given up his shady ways to be Walt's friend and sidekick, and Mary, the seventy-five-year-old apartment manager with a thirty-six-inch baseball bat and an attitude to match. This merry band of seniors is kept on the straight and narrow with words of wisdom from eighty-five-year-old Professor Leopold Skinner. And what hero would be complete without a heroine by his side? Meet Maggie McBride, Walt's sweetheart and helpmate, who makes sure he always gets his TLC. In this action-packed tale, Walt and his band of scrappy seniors are faced with the terrifying challenge of taking out the Realtor Rapist and the huge job of bringing down the Russian Mob. It's a job only the City Retiree Action Patrol can do, and they provide plenty of laughs along the way! Come along for the adventure in Lady Justice Takes a C.R.A.P.

Most men retire and take it easy at age sixty-six-but not Walter Williams He's busy fighting crime and giving Lady Justice a helping hand. In Lady Justice and the Lost Tapes, Walt and his band of scrappy seniors continue their battle against the forces of evil. When an entire eastside Kansas City neighborhood is terrorized by the mob, Walt has to go undercover to help solve the case, but he certainly doesn't want to Why? Well, the clues they need can only be found at a gay club and a transvestite bar. Why is Captain Short always volunteering Walt for these jobs? Later, the amazing discovery of a previously unknown recording session by a deceased rock 'n' roll idol stuns the music industry. But what should be a joyous occasion soon turns dark as lives are threatened, and Walt's going to have to take some courageous leaps to save the day. All of your favorite characters, along with two lovable additions, are back to help Walt in his quest for justice in ways you can't imagine. Can they do it again? Can they take down the Italian mob and keep the tapes and their owners safe from harm while dealing with a new member of the group who won't stop joking? Their adventures and misadventures are sure to keep you captivated-and splitting your sides

Walt Williams is a sixty-eight year old rookie cop. When a holistic physician is murdered, Walt becomes entangled in the high-powered world of corporate giants and corrupt politicians. The Police Department and the FBI join forces and Walt goes undercover in a 'sting' operation in order to expose those involved in this tangled web of intrigue and political corruption, and in doing so, becomes the target of a vicious assassin. Walt is also a 'rookie husband' and his new bride, Maggie, is determined to convert him from a life of comfort food and bachelor indulgence to a healthier lifestyle filled with organic food, vitamins, supplements and colon cleanses. A dead-serious mystery with hilarious twists! Reader review: "In Wolves In Sheep's Clothing, you are reading about the crimes that involve Pharmaceutical companies, healthcare professionals, the FDA and the FTC and to what end? Money, power and greed that affects the well being of all of us! Once I opened this book and started reading the first chapter, I could not put it down and wanted to see just how far into the political system this would go. Just how far would a pharmaceutical company go to keep their products on the market? What would happen if a study was released announcing to the world the fact that medicine is being sold and provided to patients unnecessarily without alternative methods being discussed? The reading grabs you from the first murder and you to find yourself hunting for the hawk-faced man along with the detectives. The author does a great job with the characters, keeping you involved in the medical mystery and you learn about some alternatives that you could research on your own."

Walt and Maggie are off to Hawaii to tie the knot, but Lady Justice never takes a break - not even for weddings or vacations. Ancient artifacts, political zealots and a tiny lizard drag the honeymooners from their posh hotel into a sacred burial cave in the caldera of an extinct volcano. Willie and Mary join the newlyweds for a tropical adventure filled with intriguing mystery and off-the-wall humor. Come along and see what happens when Lady Justice Gets Lei'd!

In December 1990 Ohio governor Richard F. Celeste granted clemency to 25 women who had been incarcerated for killing or assaulting abusive partners or stepfathers. Governors in other states quickly followed. This book documents the history of the feminist and social activist groups working within the context of the battered women's movement and the role they playing in making these events possible. The book examines the Ohio movement as a precedent-setting case study, then discusses and analyzes events in six other states where large-scale clemencies were achieved or attempted. Before clemency became a movement goal, feminist legal activists worked for two decades to challenge laws that they argued prevented women from fully defending themselves when accused of killing abusive men. One focus was to ensure that the women who killed could describe the danger with which they had lived and explain the basis of their belief that force was needed to defend their lives. Within a few years, some activists began to frame their legal defense strategies within the language of the battered woman syndrome, a strategy that remains controversial. The book analyses the strategies and achievements of the movement for clemency review, identifying the factors that led to success or failure. The last chapter looks at the post-prison lives of some of the 25 Ohio women who received clemency.

This book presents a major re-examination of the works of the fifteenth-century Scottish poet, Robert Henryson. Encompassing the full range of the poet's work, Professor John MacQueen opens up previously unexplored areas of both Henryson's literary practice and his underlying moral and philosophical vision. MacQueen argues that numerology is central to the intellectual landscape that shaped Henryson's development as a poet, and that numerological patterns and structures are embedded throughout his corpus, revealing themselves not simply in such overtly allegorical works as The Testament of Cresseid, but also in many of the Fables as well. This book therefore recovers for a modern audience qualities to which Henryson's original readers would have been alert, while at the same time conveying something of the energy and excitement of his intellectual and poetic culture. Through a series of close and sensitive readings of the poems, the book presents an original and lucid account of Henryson's work that will not only engage specialists in medieval Scottish literature, but will also appeal to a wider readership with broader interests in narrative and poetic form.