Burnt Orange is a tiny principality in North Carolina. It consists of a house and lot on Highway 70 in North Carolina between and Efland and Mebane. The Goddesses Nondice, the Goddess of Dependable People, and Opal, the Goddess of Sex and Hilarity, engage Di Bona Fide, Tinsmith of the Gods, to fabricate a helm designed to make King Charles of Burnt Orange allow his daughter, Princess Francine, to get a life. The events depicted could have occurred anytime in history. They could occur anytime in the future. Who knows?

Have you wondered if the world has gone mad? Are you concerned that our leaders are out of step with reality? Have you had passing thoughts that it might be you that doesn't "get it." Forget that, it's not you, its them.

This is all about growing up in the south during the 1930s and 1940s and going into the Army in 1953. Childhood adventures, my first real job at the telephone company and hunting stories. This was the south before ¿progress¿ came into our lives.

Hammer Spade, private investigator and bail bondsman in Durham, North Carolina, is good at finding missing persons. This time a member of the British aristocracy has gone missing, only thing is that not only is she a socialite, she's a British Secret Service agent.--Source other than Library of Congress.

In Hammer Spade's third South American adventure, Lady Margot Fisher lies in an unmarked grave on a desolate Andean mountain. Hammer is assigned to find the man who ordered her death and exact retribution.--Source other than Library of Congress.

"A collection of 200 cocktail recipes featuring bourbon, brandy, Scotch, whiskey, rum, and other dark spirits"--Provided by publisher.