Monkey Mystery

Film lover Barbara Marr is a typical suburban mom living the typical suburban life in her sleepy little town of Rustic Woods, Virginia. Typical, that is until she sets out to find the missing link between a bizarre monkey sighting in her yard and the bone chilling middle-of-the-night fright fest at the strangely vacant house next door. When Barb talks her two friends into some seemingly innocent Charlie's Angels-like sleuthing, they stumble upon way more than they bargained for and uncover a piece of neighborhood history that certain people would kill to keep on the cutting room floor.

Marty's a recently divorced antique and art appraiser who moves from the Midwest to live with her sister in High Desert, California, just outside of Palm Springs. Since their early childhood days, her sister has always possessed unexplained psychic abilities that often enable her to predict future events. An antique appraisal in the home of a recently murdered woman puts Marty at the center of a search for the killer.

When Trixie returns after being suspended, her best friend Gloria doesn’t seem herself. To make matters worse, the vampire is suddenly best friends with an exciting new monster. Is the new girl all that she seems, or are the Mean Ghouls up to no good? When the most important monster in the country pays Monstacademy a visit, the threat of their school closing hangs over Trixie and her friends like a black cloud. To make matters even worse, there’s a traitor in the ranks. Who is making things go wrong at just the right time?

Ask any kid in Rumors Mill and they’ll tell you the same thing. Playing anywhere around the old Monkey Farm was completely off limits. The dark branches of the woods surrounding the abandoned lab held whispers of secret government experiments, and creatures that lurked the property at night on both two legs and four. So it was no real surprise when Effin and his friends decided to spend one fateful summer day in those same woods, one of them didn’t make it out alive.

A large sum of money is stolen from Tudways Bank, and a clerk named Franklin Gale is the obvious suspect. But Gale’s father is positive his son is innocent, and hires private detective Sebastian Zambra - who finds that the key to the mystery lies with a five-pound note and a performing monkey.

In The Monkey House, Sarajevo is a city besieged by the atrocities of war. Stadium walls that once shook with the roar of Olympic crowds have since collapsed under the screams of artillery. Police Superintendent Rosso and the ragtag remains of his Sarajevo police force, however, remain dedicated to preserving what is left of the city's civil order.

Mysteries follow super-sleuth Cam Jansen everywhere she goes...even to the zoo. When a few monkeys suddenly go missing from their cage, Cam is sure she knows how the thief took them. Can she find the missing monkeys before they are lost forever?

Tue nichts Böses, sonst wird er dich bestrafen. Zuerst wird er einen Menschen entführen, den du liebst. Dann wird er dir ein Ohr des Opfers in einem weißen Geschenkkarton schicken. Daraufhin ein Auge, dann die Zunge. Du kannst versuchen ihn zu stoppen, aber du wirst es nicht schaffen. Denn er ist der Four Monkey Killer, und er kennt kein Erbarmen. Du kannst nur hoffen, dass er nicht weiß, wer du bist und dass er es nie erfährt.

Young boys are being killed and left in makeshift cages on the floor of the ocean. Their flesh is eaten by crabs and fish leaving their skeletons with no means of identifying them except untraceable Mexican dental work. Homicide detective Eduardo Padilla is a Mexican-American who no longer follows the rules that govern other cops. He is determined to find out who has been killing these kids. It becomes personal.

In this stunning novel, Gerald Blumenthal explores the mind of a serial killer and the subsequent court room dramas that follow. Like his previous award-winning novel The Brass Compass (now being adapted to the big screen), The Monkey Trial is fact-based but is fictionalized to avoid another court drama! The novel begs the question: what happens if a man chosen by society to judge others in society commits heinous crimes?

Someone slipped one of the monkey brothers a bad bunch of bananas. Now, Madam Electra and Officer Bruno have to figure out who is behind the malarkey spreading throughout the circus. Unfortunately, Electra’s cryptic crystal ball makes finding answers no easy cakewalk.

George Olsen's life is one big lie. As a witness in a mob-money-embezzlement-operation-turned-deadly, he lives within the WITSEC program and has had plenty of trouble adapting to life. Never look back: It’s one of the sacred rules within the WITSEC program. But when he hears an old flame has moved back to New Mexico and is in danger, he is forced to return to his old stomping grounds only to discover that decision could prove to be fatal.

Sobre un policial donde titilan inmigrantes sirios, hombres con máscaras de espejos, reflexiones sobre la autoayuda, organismos cibernéticos y rostros machucados a golpes, Bob Chow recorre la gran epopeya humana: el largo viaje que iniciaron nuestros ancestros desde que bajaron de los árboles hasta los laboratorios donde, fusionando cuerpos y tecnología, se ensaya la próxima especie de hombres.

A collection of short... stories by W W Jacobs. Serpents, skinflints, skivers, suitors and sundry sailors take the foreground in these stories about the East End of London and the mythical village of Claybury at the turn of the century.

An elderly couple living in a remote village with their mischievous son, Herbert, are presented with a macabre souvenir from India: a withered monkey's paw. Upon receiving this strange gift, the couple are warned of its dangers - that though it has the power to grant wishes, it exacts a terrible price for them. Disbelieving such fanciful ideas, the old man makes a wish that brings the most terrible events imaginable into their lives.

Nearly two decades after the fall of Vietnam, the knot of corruption and deceit that Rainbow Porter thought was safely buried in the alleys off Saigon's Tu Do street begins to unravel. An old comrade is blown apart. His Vietnamese daughter, April Bow, appears at Rainbow's mountain sanctuary with a cryptic message and a hidden agenda. The careful feelers Rainbow puts out to his old friends return disquieting news - a fortune is missing, a dead man may have resurrected himself, and the heart of the storm is sleeping in his spare bed.

This unique collection features some of the best short stories every written. It includes, "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Well" by W. W. Jacobs; "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin; "A Winter Courtship" by Sarah Orne Jewett; "The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Shelley; "The Revolt of Mother" and "A New England Nun" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" and "Markheim" by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Les always wanted to visit Port Stephens. And nobody liked Fishcake Fishbyrne that much anyway. The first night in town, Les gets arrested by the federal police then collared by a drug-crazed, feminist author. The hit turned out to be a complete nightmare. Next thing, it's a night drive into Newcastle with Eddie to sort out a team of local heavies. Somehow in the middle of all this Les meets Digger.

School is out in the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. For Frances Robinson, a 15-year-old daydreamer with a crush on her teacher, John T. Scopes, summer vacation promises tennis and Coca-Colas from her father's drug store. But when Frances' father, the school board chairman, has Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, the sleepiest place on earth becomes a hotbed for famous thinkers, including H.L. Mencken, Clarence Darrow, and William Jennings Bryan.

San Francisco has a Monkey King - and she's kinda freaked out. Barista, activist and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well, part of the way. Twenty-five percent of the way. If you squint. But now, the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost, and on the supernatural side, there are disappearances, shape-shifter murders and the city's spirit trying to find its guardian.