FOR THE UNIQUE PROBLEMS OF TAHITI...YOU NEED A UNIQUE DETECTIVE: JOE CANEILI! What's a nice farmboy from Bookbinder, Kansas, tough but fair, doing as the only Private Eye in the South Pacific? A minor disagreement with the fine Police Officers of Cologne, Germany... 23 years as a Sergeant-Major in the French Foreign Legion... A sardonic eye for the vagaries of human nature... Nothing in Tahiti is too strange for Caneili! Included in this volume are: THE STOLEN GRANDFATHER FIRE IN THE ISLANDS THE MISSING HOUSE CRIME WAVE BATTERS TAHITI! THE GIRL IN THE PICTURE "LE PERE NOEL ON CHRISTMAS ISLAND" THE LETHAL LEETEG

Trouble in Tahiti: Commissaire Tama, Chief of Police

Retired to Tahiti from the French Foreign Legion, Joe Caneili decides to supplement his pension by offering his services as a private investigator.

From the screenwriter for STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, THE BIG SLEEP, and RIO BRAVO... Walter Sherris--"successful, happy, good husband and father--"made just one mistake: he took a walk along a dark road one night. Without warning, a car raced towards him and screeched to a stop; out piled five young men intent on violence. To the accompaniment of wild brainless laughter, Walter Sherris was beaten to the ground. He awoke in a hospital nine days later. And from that moment his pleasant life became a nightmare, more horrible than those he had wrestled with in those nine days of unconsciousness. Walter Sherris wanted revenge: for the broken leg and the pain; for the doubts he now had about his pretty young wife; and for the countless and nameless others who had been mauled by the thrill seekers, the sadists, the compulsive slayers . . . the tigers loose in a tame suburban world. The police were evasive, almost disinterested. There were no witnesses. So Walter Sherris set out alone to trap the tiger. The Tiger Among Us was filmed as 13 West Street (starring Alan Ladd).

A selection of 600 quotes from the Charlie Chan movies, based on the character created by Earl Derr Biggers. Includes a 12-page databank of publicity photos, lobby cards, and other scenes from the movies.

PERILS OF THE ASTEROID BELT! Its dangers are known to all: the isolation, the vacuum of space, the interplanetary cold, the unimaginable distances.... But for JONATHAN WHITE, BROKER

Third or fourth death? thought Yuri uneasily. Have I heard him right? What can he mean? once again he was about to be zombed into imbecilic docility.

"Dinosaur Park" is a loving homage to the works of Jack Vance. Thousands of years from now, the human race has expanded throughout the galaxy, colonizing millions of worlds and creating myriads of bizarre new religious cults and sects. One of these worlds is Stohlson's Redemption, where the human settlers raise dinosaurs for their religious ceremonies. When the ten-year-old Kerryl Ryson creates an unseemly incident that upsets a visiting Important Person, his father is fed to a dinosaur -- as an object lesson in politeness -- and his remaining family are sold into slavery. For sixteen years Kerryl has plotted his revenge. Now, with the aid of a beautiful noblewoman, a time machine, a race of aliens who use the Mesozoic Era of Earth as a setting for adventure videos, and a stampede of ravaging dinosaurs, Kerryl gets his chance to even the interstellar score. But first he has to escape from several death sentences. . . . In fact, he must come back from the dead! "Space opera took a unique form in the hands of Jack Vance, as he transformed two-fisted swash-buckling to an artistry of pungent, subtle ironies. . . . [Dinosaur Park] is a very faithful effort, chock-a-block with poignant nomenclature, strange lands, and dinosaurs (cf The Dragon Masters), and featuring the requisite grim young hero out for revenge. " --Locus "This book is a screamingly funny sendup of Jack Vance's writing style by the author of ' Napoleon Disentimed' and the Chap Foey Rider stories in Analog magazine. If you are a Vance fan, do not miss it!" -- Raymond's Reviews "Of all the writers I discovered during my years as an editor, Hayford Peirce is the most original stylist and undoubtedly the one with the wickedest sense of humor." -- Ben Bova "Hayford Peirce is debonair, witty, and a keen student of the cosmopolis: all of which is reflected in his writing. He also displays a knack for seizing and holding a reader's attention: certainly he is among the most entertaining of all science-fiction writers." -- Jack Vance

The world and Mars are states of mind. The Martian Overmind will help readers devolve, as they discover that they are all Phylum Monsters, after all.