Anyone who loves to play with words, who delights in finding out why we say the things we do, will place Brewer's Dictionary of phrase and fable in a prominent position on the bookshelf. Writers, speakers, and students will use it as a ready and accu-rate reference tool when the exact meaning of a word or phrase is needed. Those interested in the history of fable and literature will discover th…
Matthew Hope, the suave Florida lawyer, is back in the latest of McBain's series of cynically titled nursery-rhyme and fairy-tale themed novels... McBain is an undisputed master of the genre-slick, wry and satisfying.
Herman Manslaughter, hunchbacked singer and recluse is having a bad day. He's being stalked, his agent wants him to go public, his doctor wants to operate on his hump and now everyone thinks he's dead. What more could go wrong? His world is turned upside down in a breaneck series of events that will leave him changed forever.