Christian Bauer’s short stories range from out-of-control Thanksgiving turkeys to a fighter pilot’s fateful flight and take the reader from a pizza delivery joint to a homemade backyard rocket ship. Machines have minds of their own with a love for pranks (or even more deadly plans). Sometimes, if you just wait, serendipity solves the problem. This collection highlights some of Bauer’s most loved previously-published short stories including “Fresh, Never Frozen” and “Harrigan’s Price,” while introducing several never-before-published titles, created especially for this collection.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories" by Nicholas Carter. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

This encyclopedic guide to the American dime novel contains over 1,200 entries on serial publications, major writers and editors, publishers, and major characters, fiction genres, themes, and locales. An introduction provides a brief history of the dime novel. A discussion of dime novel scholarship includes a selected directory of libraries and museums with significant collections of dime novels. An appendix contains a publishing chronology of the more than 300 serial publications, and a selected bibliography suggests further reading. This comprehensive reference will appeal to popular culture scholars and to dime novel collectors. As an important research tool, entries are cross-referenced throughout. An index is included.

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