J. Pincus Delmont is the most successful, and ethically challenged attorney north of Las Vegas, and he's Richard Page's only hope to escape execution by lethal injection. Pinky quickly determines his client's tale of betrayal and murder leads to Southern California and demands investigative help from Bear Zarbarte who owes him a sizeable chunk of money. The Bear is as big as a tree, street wise, sort of trustworthy, and not averse to cracking the occasional head when the need arises. A grumbling Bear drives south where he discovers, and falls for Flo Sonderlund-a woman with a body to kill for, and a mouth as caustic as a bucket of lye. By hook and by crook, Pinky, the Bear, and Flo pry a solution to the murder from a string of chumps and patsies that stretches from the fertile hills of Tuscany, Italy to eastern wasteland of Nevada, the home of the Loneliest Road In America.

The Bloody Birthright (Pinky and the Bear Mysteries, No. 1)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Dalton, Ken

Mystery

Different Drummer Press

Brady Blackstone, America's richest and favorite concert performer, dies in a tragic accident while Bear and Flo, along with thousands of northern Nevada's music lovers, look on in horror. However, before Bear can maneuver Flo back to their apartment to complete her birthday celebration, they stumble across a clue that makes them question if Brady's death was an accident. In The Big Show Stopper, Pinky, a sleazy but sucessful defence attorney, and Bear, a street-wise ex bartender, mix madness with mayhem as you meet Brady's less than grieving widow-a trigger-happy Carson City Cop named Ice Conner-travel in first-class luxury with Pinky as he follows a questionable lead to an exotic location and suffer with Flo in Bear's old pick up while they drive to another of America's armpit locations where they discover Brady Blackstone's killer.

The Big Show Stopper

A bulldozer unearths a young girl’s body on a golf course in Scotland but for some reason, Fergus Murray, the top crime officer in Tayside seems unwilling to pursue the case. Fergus contacts Willow Stone, his American cousin and pleads for help. Willow, Pinky’s favorite ex-wife, calls in all her chips and convinces Pinky, Bear, Flo, and Ettamae to go to the small Scottish town of Pitlochry to help her cousin find the killer. Along the way the American’s come across a forester with a wonky eye—haggis—the occasional bad weather spring day—various Scottish policeman all named McSomething—mutton pie—a near new, sixty-year-old Austin Taxi—a bathroom that could double for a freezer—the nearly indecipherable Scottish accent—many glasses of whiskey and beer—ancient records—a broadsword—and a real Duke! Ride with Bear, Flo, and Henry during their final mad dash across Scotland to try to stop the murderer before he kills again inside the hallowed halls of Blair Castle.

The Tartan Shroud

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Bear's afternoon of beer and baseball is interrupted by a phone call from a former high school friend who is standing in a pool of his dead brother's blood. So begins the tale of a cold-blooded murder and the theft of a two million dollar dime! Faced with bi-coastal murder suspects, Pinky hands Bear and Flo the sweaty task of tracking down one of the suspects along the hot, humid North Carolina shoreline while he chooses to pursue the other on the Kona Coast of Hawaii. But Pinky, after imbibing too many Mai Tai's with a bevy of sky-goddesses, and facing a mandatory court appearance, is forced to return to Carson City, sans suspect. Bear and Flo hit pay dirt, and with the identity of the killer in-hand, they fly across the Pacific Ocean to the smoggy Beijing airport where they meet Joe, the uncle of Pinky's Chinese secretary. The enigmatic Joe quotes Confucius and Shakespeare as he purposefully guides the dynamic duo to their final destination—oxygen sparse Lhasa, Tibet.

Brother, can you spare a dime? (A Pinky and Bear Mystery)

One afternoon, Casper Potts was enjoying lunch in his apartment with one of the Ladies' Casserole Club members when he heard a scuffle at his front door. Excusing himself from his current companion, he opened his door to find two women fighting over a marking pen attached to the Ladies' Casserole Club scheduling board.How did this introverted widower become the most desired male at The Oaks, a luxurious senior living facility located in the hills above Hollywood?

Casper Potts and the Ladies' Casserole Club

The year is 1943. A five year old boy wakes up. He cannot stand or hold an apple in his hand. The boy is rushed to his family doctor, diagnosed with polio, and taken from his mother's arms to the contagion ward at the county hospital. Despite decades of futile research, polio epidemics continued to paralyze and kill hundreds of thousands od adults and children well into the 1950s. Polio and Me provides a view of the past, present, and future—the saga of one boy's pain, fear, and loneliness—the long struggle to find a vaccine and effective treatments—the worldwide goal to eradicate the polio virus, and in one twenty-first century cancer research trial, the polio vaccine eliminated cancerous tumors.

Polio and Me

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Simon Rand, generally regarded as the least respected restaurant critic in America, dies from a heart attack in San Francisco. Or did he expire from natural causes? The answer to that question kicks off another wild Pinky, Bear, and Flo mystery that takes them to Camden, New Jersey, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Skellefteå, Sweden. During their travels, Pinky becomes personally acquainted with a Mafia Don, his oversized thugs, and a helicopter ride over the Atlantic, while Flo, Bear, and Ettamae visit Sweden where Bear gawks at more well-developed blonde females then he thought existed in the whole world!

The Unsavory Critic (A Pinky and Bear mystery)

Dust jacket notes: "What happens when a southern chef and a southern artist combine forces? When the culinary arts connect to the visual arts? When a palate meets a palette? The result is A Southern Palate, a collaboration between Robert St. John and Wyatt Waters combining recipes for culinary delights for the palate with visual delights from the palette. Featured here are more than 130 of Robert St. John's great recipes, including many of his signature dishes like Corn and Crab Bisque, White Chocolate Bread Pudding, Smoked Duck Spring Rolls, Sensation Salad, Zydeco Chicken, and Crab Cakes Monica. Thirty-four previously unpublished Wyatt Waters paintings, most created specifically for this book, add beautiful and colorful garnish to the sumptuous recipes. You will find it hard to resist picking up the phone to order one of the cakes from the bakery display in 'Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too' and almost impossible to keep from leaving immediately to search for the ro

A Southern Palate

Robert St. John

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Nobody's Poet The Food Columns of Robert St. John

Deep South Staples: Or How to Survive in a Southern Kitchen Without a Can of Cream of Mushroom Soup

Robert, John

Regional & International

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