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Robert Edmond Alter
Of all creatures, man is the most difficult to keep caged. There is no textbook on escape, yet every prison, no matter how escape proof it is claimed to be…
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That’s a knife in his chest, just like the kind my ex-wife used to use in her knife-throwing act. But that was a long time ago. Before she married the…
Here is the exciting biography of one of America’s greatest folk heroes, said to have killed 21 men– one fo each year of his life. The trail of Billy the…
Shad Holly and Nat Towne are brought together when they are involved with a British patrol in the streets of Boston. Shad, an experienced frontier fighter, and Nat, a young…
The author weaves an adventure-filled tale of medieval Britain, depicting the customs and hardships of serfdom, feudal life in a moated castle, and the amazing siege machines of the Age…
Jess Hanna is shanghaied aboard a whaling ship. Unlike most boys in the 1820s, Jess has no desire for the danger of a sailor’s life, and he suffers greatly from…
Robert Edmond Alter, best known as a mystery author, turns his considerable talents to stories of heroes and courage under difficult circumstances. These true-life historical retellings include tales of war…
One of famed crime author Robert Edmond Alter's less-well-known books, Henry M. Stanley: The Man from Africa concerns the life of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator…
Matt Burnett joins the militia when he hears of pending French and Indian attacks upon colonial settlers. He immediately finds himself regarded as a hero and at the same time…
Thurms, seventeen-year-old son of an Egyptian general, is banished from Thebes by his father for insubordination. Banishment means a tedious assignment of patrolling at the edge of the Sinai desert…
It takes guts to challenge death.Vern Rigby, professional diver, beach-bum and ladies’ man, was the best in the business until the day he helplessly watched while a tiger shark…
Heroes in Blue and Gray presents the stories of famous people from the american civil war.
In his fanatic determination to capture Shovel Nose, Dad Peps’ ingenuity always exceeds his practicality, and the result invariably makes life no worse than unsettling for Shovel Nose, unsatisfying tor…
Cheops’ daughter, the story goes, earned the money for her pyramid by practicing what was even then the Oldest Profession. Her price had been one stone per man. She built…
The swamp had no name and no landmarks: just cypress, Spanish moss, and alligators–and a wrecked plane with eighty thousand dollars inside it. The man who found the Money Plane…
