If you are a fan of the Pulp Magazines of the 1930's or 1940's
you will like this hardboiled private eye!
He kills all the hoodlums and leaves the police to sort
out the bodies.Race likes to eat steakes and deal out lead to thoose in crime who try to take him out!Saving young ladies
and standing up to the toughest crime bosses is a normal day
in the life of Race Williams.This book features 4-5 tales straight from the Dime Detective pulps themselves.

A former police officer (see A BLESSED DEATH), Hannah Barlow is extremely proud of herself for graduating from law school (see MURDER IN BRIEF). She is now a practicing attorney, having opened up a partnership with Bobby Terry, her former law school study partner in Las Almas, California. Hannah can even stare all day at the office door that shows the sign of Terry & Barlow.

Hannah's first case involves a simple adoption. Stephen and Rebecca Drummond are already legally the parents of nine-month old Matthew, whose birth mother is Laura Benson. The final formality is the signing of a few legal documents and a simple celebration of the event and Laura has no more claim on her biological son. However, Kurt Sundstrom explodes into the legal office, irate with Laura. He has proof that he is her legal husband and claims to be the father to the boy that Laura just gave away. The old police mentality of Hannah takes charge and she begins to investigate who is w! hat to whom.

The Hannah Barlow mysteries are fabulous stories because each new edition has the lead protagonist further evolving in her personal life. Hannah goes from cop to student to lawyer in the three novels thus published. This makes each new novel a refreshing story. AKIN TO DEATH, the third book continues to show the growth of Hannah (and Bobby) as she handles her first legal case. The story line is intriguing as the simple adoption becomes tangled inside a series of lies and deceptions. Readers who enjoy watching their star grow should try all three of Carroll Lachnit's extraordinary mystery series.

Harriet Klausner

If you've read the first two Kryon books you need to get into this one. Each book takes you that one or two steps further along the road. A must read.

I have not yet read this entire book, but over the past few months I have used this book many times to help me learn facts about Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidg Dodgson) and I have always found it interesting and helpful. It could only be better if it were a larger work: perhaps it will be expanded to two volumes. This one volume doesn't touch on everything one might like: E.g., I would like to read more about Dodgson's mathemaical works and interests.

If you are going to buy a copy of Alice in Wonderland make sureyou get this one Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. Her illustrationsmake what was a good book great. Buy it!

I had been searching for my first copy of Alice in Wonderland for the longest time and finally found this one. This is rather a richly designed edition to the Carroll classic. It comes with a necklace too! Alice in Wonderland is one of the few books that have rarely charmed both children and adult readers. The talents of John Tenniel are amazing. The way he draws those detailed pictures is fabulous. AMAZING! There's an illustrator if you had one. The story is so well written. I read this book to my little brothers who love little Alice. They think it is just so joyful. They like the characters, the White Rabbit and the Queen of Hearts. They think they are so funny. I like little Alice and the Rabbit myself, if you'd ask me. This is such an excellent book. Grab it while ya still can!

Lewis Carrol's stories: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass are amazing stories with hilarious lines and trickery. Complete fantasy with dim-witted and funny characters that can outsmart Alice, but not even themselves! Alice's adventures are fantastic and any fantasy lover should take this opportunity in an instant! (Humpty Dumpty makes sense of the Jabberwocky poem!) If you want to laugh hard, read Alice's Adeventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass.

This is THE BOOK that I would take with me to a desert island

The editor's discription of this product is all wrong. This is a play based of from Caroll's works.

In this one-act fantasy play Alice's Adventure Under Ground by Christopher Hampton, has a style of surrealism playing with the imagination of a child. This play is based off and is adopted from the writings of Lewis Carroll. This leads it to have a logic all of its own, and presented towards the nonrealistic side of life.

This takes place in a fireside room in Christ Church where Lewis Carroll sits in loneliness to his thoughts. He looks up to a mirror where he sees Alice inside of it for a second before she disappears and he sets up tea. A moment or so later there is a knock and Alice enters the room. He proceeds to tell her stories that draw her into some of tales of Wonderland and as this happens, he and three others become all of the characters Alice would encounter in that strange land of logic. There is no costume change, just physical performances transform them from classy 1860s people to the bizarre people of unique logic.

Although the stories are presented from Alice's adventures of both books, the setting remains inside the room and it is though the imagination the transports us beyond the logic. The room seems be made up slightly abstractly, but it should have a sense that view comes from the eyes of a child. They would turn structure into a twisted surreal image of itself, trying to make it into a not unfriendly place of plain innocence.

Lewis Carroll in this play has that same kind of purity we can see in several conversations with Alice. Like when Alice is trying to convince Carroll the she isn't someone named Mabel, because she knows more things than her. Carroll tests her out.
Carroll:What's four times six?
Alice: Thirteen.
Carroll: Is London the capital of Paris?
Alice:Yes.

The logic from the books play nicely in all of the childlike scenes, always it creates wonder in common sense and tearing apart the ideas of what adults may think a proper. It reminds me of the purity of the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where what may seem true to life is not a constant everywhere. Only through our imaginations, can we let ourselves free from structure and see things with new eyes. Everything real will be surreal and that will become the normal

Alice's Adventures were stories created on the spot and told by Charles Dodgson to his young female friends, including most particularly little Alice Liddell. After begging from Alice that these stories be written in a book, Charles Dodgson wrote a draft, and from this carefully handwrote and illustrated "Alice's Adventures Under Ground", which he gave to Alice Liddell. Later, Charles used his draft to rewrite the stories in a much expanded version which was published by Macmillan as "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", and then went on to write "Through the Looking-Glass". "Alice's Adventures Under Ground" is a facsimile edition of the handwritten and hand illustrated manuscript, which now resides in the British Museum. There have been previous facsimile editions published, such as from Macmillan and Dover, but in black and white only. This color facsimile is extremely well done: the quality of the thick yellow paper is excellent, as is the brown printing. These, along with the color reproduction of the cover and attribution pages, combine to provide a great looking book that feels so wonderful to handle. And of course the story itself is marvelously enjoyable, and many of the same episodes which became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland can be seen in this precursor to that work.