After the massacre Hardy and Betty Sue were left with only a horse and a knife with which to face the long battle against the wilderness. A seven-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl, stranded on the limitless prairie. They were up against starvation, marauding Indians, savage outlaws, and wild animals. They were mighty stubborn, but the odds were against them -- and their luck was about to run out.

Hired to locate Amy Denovo's long-lost father, Nero Wolfe and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, discover that the missing man has a deadly and dangerous secret to hide.

Ramona has been waiting her whole life to start kindergarten, and now that she's here, she's determined to make her mark! So during quiet time, she pretends to snore to prove how good she is at resting. Then she yanks on prissy classmate Susan's curls because their boinginess is too tempting. But when a classmate calls Ramona a pest for her behavior, Ramona feels completely misunderstood. If she's started her school career off on the wrong foot, is...

"A Hollywood producer entrusts a priceless manuscript of his autobiography to a man who then disappears and Shell Scott is called upon to retrieve it"--Penzler.

"In his new novel, Macdonald's famous non-hero private eye Lew Archer -- embodiment of cool -- picks his way through the overheated and explosives mazes of a wealthy family's long-hidden secrets. A lost heirloom, a murder that breeds more murder, a boy's life poisoned by a money crime committed before he was born -- these are the elements of The Goodbye Look."--

McGee and his friend Meyer find themselves trapped in a corrupt justice system after they are charged with murder.

When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuni. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig ... and a steel hypodermic needle. And...