Random Shot is another Hannable Hathaway Hoe murder mystery.

A young woman, Vera Hall, is killed by a random shot that blasts through a window of the Bartell Building on the 12th floor, hits a plaque on a wall then ricochets into Vara Hall's body, killing her almost instantly. The death of Vera Hall is considered a death by an accidental random shot fired by someone unknown.

The mysterious Mr. Frost who Hannable first met in Murder in the Key of E Flat, calls again and wants Hannable to investigate Vera Hall's death too, and with another bet that Hannable will fail again to find out who the mysterious Mr. Frost is. Hannable takes the job and the bet.

Random Shot is one of the most diabolical, malevolent, and fiendish murder plots Hannable Hathaway Hoe has worked on up to this time. How can a young woman be deliberately murdered in a room on the 12th floor of a building that is higher than the other buildings in the immediate area, which would cause the slug from a rife to shoot almost straight up if shot from the ground, missing the plaque entirely, and, if shot though a window from a nearby building the angle was wrong for a ricocheting bullet from there also, and, if shot from a shorter building's roof that angle would also be wrong. How then can Vera Hall's death be murder? Everybody says it's impossible, but Mr. Frost!

Mr. Frost sends an older man, Ethelbert Spoon, to help Hannable. What can Spoon do to help? A great deal as it turns out. Spoon turns out to be somewhat of a magician!

Turlock Holmes, a private crime investigator, and Hannable Hathaway Hoe, a private eye, collaborate on another murder case, The Plum Jelly Murder Case. A man dies while eating lunch with a group of men friends in a local restaurant. The men all work for the dead man who was a Real Estate broker. His wife goes to see Hannable Hoe in his office where she insists that her husband was murdered even though there is no evidence of murder. She offers a one hundred fifty thousand dollar reward, to any one who can find her husband's murderer. Turlock Holmes is in Hannable's office at this time. He and Hannable decide to take the case. They want the hundred and fifty grand. They have no clues, or suspects, or evidence, just the murdered man's wife's feeling that her husband was murdered by one of his friends, but how can a man murder another man in broad daylight sitting around a table in a restaurant with friends? Holmes says he can solve the case in a week, stunning Hannable. Can they do it with no suspects, no evidence, no clues?

ABOUT THE NOVEL, THE EPIC SAGA OF THE ISLAND OF EDEN, THREE VOLUMES, AND SEVEN BOOKS. THIS IS THE THIRD VOLUME OF TWO BOOKS, BOOK 6: THE CUBE ROOM; AND BOOK 7, BARNARD'S STAR.

In Book 1, The Doomsberg, Rex King the hero, and Eva Queen the heroine, meet on a cruise ship to antarctica and fall in love, making The Island of Eden one of the greatest love stories of all time. The ship is grabbed by a mysterious force which crashes the ship into an ice hole in a gigantic iceberg. The doomsberg, another big iceberg, is grabbed and pulled to the same spot where the ship crashed into the ice hole. The doomsberg destroys the ship. The people just have time to flee to the top of the gigantic iceberg. The people, led by Rex King, march across the ice to a mountain called Ice Mountain. Many people die. They find the Dream City beneath the ice.

In Book 2, The Dream City, the castawayed people find the golden city and the golden people who live beneath the ice in the dream city. The golden people save the castaways and befriend them. While the castaways are living beneath the ice in the golden city, the gigantic iceberg starts to smash north through sea and sand and mud and rocks, as if it was alive. The world is stunned. The world calls the gigantic mobile iceberg Moby Dick. The ice begins to melt revealing a golden city on a gigantic floating island, a colossal ship. The world calls the golden island The Island of Eden.

In Book 3, The One Year War, the UN partitions the island which was hidden beneath the ice. The Russians get the northern sector. They land troops. Rex King, a leader now of the golden people orders the Russians to remove their troops. The Russians refuse, starting The One Year War, which is how long it takes the golden people to destroy Russia with their wonder weapons.

In Book 4, The Eva Queen, the golden robot Robau gives Rex King a gigantic airship, 3,000 feet long and 1,000 feet wide. It is a colossus, the biggest airship the world has ever seen. It will be used to carry passengers on trips around the world. Rex King names the golden ship The Eva Queen. The big airship has a computer they call Queeny. Many other things happen in Book 4. The golden people claim the oceans of the world.

In Book 5, Zaurell's War, Zaurell, a top E-denn leader goes to West Germany to help them against the East Germans who start a civil war. The golden soldiers are winning the war when their wonder aircraft crashes. Something is drastically wrong with their island. They are trapped in Germany.

In Book 6, The Cube Room, there is a gigantic mysterious cube in the very center of the golden island, from front to back; from side to side, and from top to bottom. Rex King and Eva Queen, a group of people, and Red the robot set out to find the cube room and seek a way inside of it. A 'something' is controlling the golden island ship. What is it and where is it?

In Book 7, Barnard's Star, Rex King, Zaurell, and Aurell set out on a journey to Barnard's Star in a spaceship that Robau the golden robot gives to them. What awaits them across the galaxy? Can they get there and back?

Jesse Black Hawk Dakoda, a half-breed Indian, whose mother took him from the reservation to live with his wealthy grandfather so he could have a better education that the one he could get on the reservation. His grandfather hated him on sight because of his heritage and treated him cruelly. Autumn came into his life bringing love, violence, humor, and the supernatural.

World War II separated the young lovers. He served as a Marine and she as a Navy nurse. Before they could pick up their lives again they had to overcome lies, tragedy and violence.

Overwhelmed by her lonely, loveless life, Sari Downey quickly became restless after returning home from entertaining the troops as a dancer. She knew she had to get out of this one-horse town, where she had been laughed at and looked down on all her life.

Marrying her childhood sweetheart, Charlie Downey, to get away from her father, Sari quickly realized she had made a terrible mistake. Charlie had taught her to fear intimacy between them. His constant humiliation took away the only thing she had left – her pride. Drumming into her head that she was frigid and completely useless, Sari was more than happy when he threw her out, replacing her with the new woman of the week. While overseas, Charlie sent her divorce papers to sign, to which she gladly complied.

Then her sister suggested they buy a fruit farm in Texas, with the stipulation Sari was to go alone to Texas to run the farm. Knowing she would never remarry, she took the only option open to her. She agreed to her sister’s plan, even though she had no clue as to what she would do once she arrived in Texas.

Arriving in Texas, Sari found herself up to her neck in deep troubles, not understanding the language of her Mexican workers, plus having to deal with her overseer who had been robbing her blind, and finding the farm in a shameful condition, not fit for wild animals to live in. And if that weren’t enough, some evil, sick person was raping and killing the worker’s children.

As much as Sari hated the idea, she knew she would have to hire a man who she could trust to help her. In the back of her mind, a man’s face surfaced. A very handsome young Mexican Marine, Brando Torres. She had met him during the war, when he asked her to dance. His words kept coming back to haunt her, "When this war is over, I will come for you." When she told him in explicit words what he could do, and how to get there, Brando had laughed, and then became serious. He warned her it was no joke, "I am your destiny." Would she dare hire this man, knowing he would be a danger to her?

There are many types of losses, but some are more devastating than others. Some things can be gotten over in a matter of time, but other things seem to linger and remain, testing time to the limit. And sometimes, burying something doesn’t always mean it’s gone forever. You can bury a person, a feeling, a memory: all of these things can explain where Beth reaches her peak in experiencing what life is truly about. Instead of thinking that fear and hopelessness rule a heart, Beth finds out that there is love, friendship, and hope for a future. But it takes facing the unseen to let her see things more clearly. Many things can be buried, but a few things will remain etched in the mind forever, and so it was. Her mind became like a piece of stone in history, knowing the truth, but getting past it. And still, to Beth, those things are Buried, But Not Forgotten.

This is a fictitious case study of a psychopath. Many lives were destroyed by his psychopathic behavior.

This is a love story about two young lovers, and how the behavior of that psychopath altered their lives.

The book is based on contemporary relationship fiction and essentially revolves around the main character, Sharise Carter. Sharise is a child psychoanalyst, who works mainly with adolescents with behavioral problems. Two different men, in two different relationships due to their infidelities, have betrayed her, causing her to need therapy herself.

Now she finds herself struggling to remain moral in a world where being virtuous is considered being a fool, and a thing of the past. Sharise struggles to hold on to God and herself as she finds that she’s surrounded by lovers, and friends who seem to think that using and hurting people is the "in" thing to do. After a while, she begins to wonder if she should just live for today, much like everyone else around her is doing, and throw caution to the wind. When one of her friends tells her that it’s no big deal that her man cheated on her, and that she should get over it and give him another chance because he could have done something worse, such as hit her, Sharise falls into despair to think that she’s the only one who sees something wrong with what he did.

Sharise finds herself having restless, sleepless nights, and she is feeling sorry for herself. She has become bitter, paranoid and mistrustful toward men, and fears the right man may come along, and due to her trust issues, he may slip through her fingers. Because of the pain she endured from the two betrayals, she evolves into a woman who wants to give no second chances to anyone and never settle for less. "Never say never," is the lesson she learns as she finds herself back in the arms of one the lovers.

Being a psychoanalyst herself, and absorbed with the problems of others, she doesn’t realize that she’s in need of therapy herself. After some soul searching, she realizes what she must do in order to survive mentally.

This book is emotionally multifaceted, and there is melancholy, rapture, adventure, suspense, humor and tragedy in the experiences of the main character.

Tulips is a story of two people from a small town in the central part of Iowa. Although they had attended the same church for nearly a year, they had never spoken directly.

Jennifer Thompson was thirty, married, and the mother of two children. John Larson was forty-five and single since his wife left three years earlier. They both decided to attend the final day of the Tulip Festival in the spring of 1986 and that's where their friendship was formed.

The Festival is a three day event held in Pella, Iowa, a small town originally settled by Dutch immigrants. During Festival Days, there are crafts for sale, plenty of good food, and two parades each day featuring a Tulip queen, floats, bands, and street washers dressed in traditional Dutch costumes with wooden shoes. Of course there are also tulips, thousands of them in nearly every color you could imagine.

John and Jennifer met there, seemingly by accident, and it took awhile for John to figure out who she was. I say they met "seemingly" by accident because John held to the position that nothing happens by mere chance. His theory was: "What's meant to be, will be." While Jennifer didn't immediately share his view, that would come later.

Both John and Jennifer had strongly held principles, which were deeply rooted in the concrete of their faith, but fate had something unexpected in store. That day they spent together would become a bench-mark by which they would both measure all subsequent time.

After meeting, they walked and talked together in what would become their sacred place. A walled-in area under the locally famous clock tower archways. When they passed under the triple arches, it was as if they had stepped onto the pages of a fairy-tale book. Something almost magical happened during the short time they were there together, something that would permanently change both of them.

After going their separate ways for awhile, they met again by "chance" in a small park with a pond and windmill. There, in that Sunken Garden, they shared the meal Jennifer had packed earlier that morning. As they sat together on her blanket they met Billy Martin, a small boy whose life would also forever be changed that day. It's he who tells their story.

Circumstances caused John and Jennifer to watch the parade together and drive toward their homes in a convey of two cars. By what John would have deemed to be another pre-determined event, car trouble extended their day together in a small churchyard off the main road. The short time they spent together there formed a bond between them that would become stronger than chains-of-steel or even "bands-of-gold."

Over the next four years, there were ups and downs in their separate lives, and slopes and grades in their relationship as well. John was an avid cyclist and developed a core belief in his theory of "slopes and grades" while riding. John reasoned he could coast during the slopes of life, when all was well, but the grades required considerable effort.

The story revolves around church activities, illness and healing, good fortune and bad. There are as many twists and turns in their lives as John encountered while riding his bike over the Iowa roads. John comes into a large amount of money and discovers it can buy nearly all of the things he had dreamed of, but it couldn't buy what he wanted most.

Tulips is a story of love, the joy, agony, and pure wonder of it. Its words are woven from the threads of life's struggles. The story is modern in that it tells of the common ability to love more than one person at the same time. It's not a story of an affair, but rather of a love tried by fire and more pure than gold. John and Jennifer find the courage to exercise restraint despite their human desire to give in to the tugging of worldly pleasures. They had both signed-on to a higher calling few could understand, but all can admire.

Tulips doesn't focus on the sexual aspect of love, but rather on that higher plane of the experience. It deals with the sort of love, which comes but once in a lifetime. The story is etched on the surface of the higher road of life, the one less traveled.

John and Jennifer's story will tug at the reader's heart strings and pierce into its very core like a flaming arrow. From their first chance meeting to the final page, it will carve a mark that can never be erased. Tulips is a love story with a message. It's packaged in the wrappings of "Sowing and Reaping," rather than "Ends and Means."

The reader will come to expect the unexpected and marvel at the strength required to lead such lives. Only the thin-pane of principle separated John and Jennifer from what they wanted most. In the end, Jennifer would come to understand what John had known all along, "What was meant to be, would be." Nothing could alter the reality of that truth.

Tulips is an easy read with hidden depth. The characters are unusually strong in principle and resolve, yet quite capable of experiencing all of the normal emotions of ordinary people. There are periods of humor and sorrow, good times and bad. It tells of two people who find the grace to deal with an age-old struggle separating right and wrong.

Tulips will leave an indelible impression on the reader and teach lessons taken directly from the master's instruction manual. No one who reaches a fork in the road of life can take both paths. All must choose one over another. Tulips is a story of such a choice and of the uncommon strength required to make it.

Tulips is a story of two people from a small town in the central part of Iowa. Although they had attended the same church for nearly a year, they had never spoken directly.

Jennifer Thompson was thirty, married, and the mother of two children. John Larson was forty-five and single since his wife left three years earlier. They both decided to attend the final day of the Tulip Festival in the spring of 1986 and that's where their friendship was formed.

The Festival is a three day event held in Pella, Iowa, a small town originally settled by Dutch immigrants. During Festival Days, there are crafts for sale, plenty of good food, and two parades each day featuring a Tulip queen, floats, bands, and street washers dressed in traditional Dutch costumes with wooden shoes. Of course there are also tulips, thousands of them in nearly every color you could imagine.

John and Jennifer met there, seemingly by accident, and it took awhile for John to figure out who she was. I say they met "seemingly" by accident because John held to the position that nothing happens by mere chance. His theory was: "What's meant to be, will be." While Jennifer didn't immediately share his view, that would come later.

Both John and Jennifer had strongly held principles, which were deeply rooted in the concrete of their faith, but fate had something unexpected in store. That day they spent together would become a bench-mark by which they would both measure all subsequent time.

After meeting, they walked and talked together in what would become their sacred place. A walled-in area under the locally famous clock tower archways. When they passed under the triple arches, it was as if they had stepped onto the pages of a fairy-tale book. Something almost magical happened during the short time they were there together, something that would permanently change both of them.

After going their separate ways for awhile, they met again by "chance" in a small park with a pond and windmill. There, in that Sunken Garden, they shared the meal Jennifer had packed earlier that morning. As they sat together on her blanket they met Billy Martin, a small boy whose life would also forever be changed that day. It's he who tells their story.

Circumstances caused John and Jennifer to watch the parade together and drive toward their homes in a convey of two cars. By what John would have deemed to be another pre-determined event, car trouble extended their day together in a small churchyard off the main road. The short time they spent together there formed a bond between them that would become stronger than chains-of-steel or even "bands-of-gold."

Over the next four years, there were ups and downs in their separate lives, and slopes and grades in their relationship as well. John was an avid cyclist and developed a core belief in his theory of "slopes and grades" while riding. John reasoned he could coast during the slopes of life, when all was well, but the grades required considerable effort.

The story revolves around church activities, illness and healing, good fortune and bad. There are as many twists and turns in their lives as John encountered while riding his bike over the Iowa roads. John comes into a large amount of money and discovers it can buy nearly all of the things he had dreamed of, but it couldn't buy what he wanted most.

Tulips is a story of love, the joy, agony, and pure wonder of it. Its words are woven from the threads of life's struggles. The story is modern in that it tells of the common ability to love more than one person at the same time. It's not a story of an affair, but rather of a love tried by fire and more pure than gold. John and Jennifer find the courage to exercise restraint despite their human desire to give in to the tugging of worldly pleasures. They had both signed-on to a higher calling few could understand, but all can admire.

Tulips doesn't focus on the sexual aspect of love, but rather on that higher plane of the experience. It deals with the sort of love, which comes but once in a lifetime. The story is etched on the surface of the higher road of life, the one less traveled.

John and Jennifer's story will tug at the reader's heart strings and pierce into its very core like a flaming arrow. From their first chance meeting to the final page, it will carve a mark that can never be erased. Tulips is a love story with a message. It's packaged in the wrappings of "Sowing and Reaping," rather than "Ends and Means."

The reader will come to expect the unexpected and marvel at the strength required to lead such lives. Only the thin-pane of principle separated John and Jennifer from what they wanted most. In the end, Jennifer would come to understand what John had known all along, "What was meant to be, would be." Nothing could alter the reality of that truth.

Tulips is an easy read with hidden depth. The characters are unusually strong in principle and resolve, yet quite capable of experiencing all of the normal emotions of ordinary people. There are periods of humor and sorrow, good times and bad. It tells of two people who find the grace to deal with an age-old struggle separating right and wrong.

Tulips will leave an indelible impression on the reader and teach lessons taken directly from the master's instruction manual. No one who reaches a fork in the road of life can take both paths. All must choose one over another. Tulips is a story of such a choice and of the uncommon strength required to make it.

DEEP BLUE GOLD IS ANOTHER POPULAR KRONG THE WATCHER STORY.

Harley Hathaway accidentally found a freshwater springs in the sea floor off the coast of Los Angeles and Orange counties when he was just a kid crewing on a sailboat. Years later in college, he makes water his life's work. He works for an ol' desert rat water driller, Jack Silsby, in the desert of California. Jack teaches him all there is to know about drilling for water anywhere. Harley leaves Jack and goes to work for a medium-sized oil and water drilling company, Smith Oil and Water Company. One day while flying to South America for Smith Oil and Water, he remembers that freshwater springs in the sea floor and realizes that bringing that freshwater to a water-hungry land like Southern California is a dream come true, if he can do it. He tries to find the freshwater springs in the sea, but he can't find it; the freshwater is invisible in sea water. He goes to Jack Silsby for help, then he goes and gets his old girlfriend, Alice Brent. The three of them try to find the freshwater in the sea, but they fail. Speeding back to the dock one day after another day of failure, Harley suddenly remembers the Watchers and they go there as quickly as they can. The Watchers agree to help them develop the freshwater springs in the sea floor and the trouble starts–BIG TROUBLE–when every ecologist, environmentalist, EPA bureaucrats, the state of California, the Los Angeles and Orange County bureaucrats, and, it seems, every freak in the entire United States of America are viciously against developing the freshwater springs in the seabed. Harley and his friends can't figure it out why all of them oppose it since they all must drink and use water. Los Angeles City and County spend billions searching for water on land, yet they too are against using freshwater in the seabed, even though oil in the seabed has been used for many, many years. Harley and his friends, with the help of the Watchers, organize the Standard Water Company. Can Harley, Alice, and Jack lick the opposition and bring that freshwater in the seabed to the thirsty land?

It is a true fact that Los Angeles City and County are building one of the biggest reservoirs in America, and Orange County is about to declare a water shortage. It is also a true fact that enormous quantities of freshwater are going to waste under the sea right at this moment, yet not one company is making any effort to get that water. Just think, what if all of the oil under the sea was not even being looked for even though it was gushing up from the seabed???!!! How strange that millions of barrels of oil are pumped out of the seabed, yet not one gallon of freshwater is pumped out of the seabed for a thirsty world! What good is the oil if there's no water to drink???!!!