Stuart David

"Jack will do anything to avoid the life his parents want for him"--

Imagine growing up among wolves, being friends with a panther and a bear, and hunting the most fearsome animal in the wild-the man-killing tiger Shere Khan. These are the stories of Mowgli ""the frog,"" a man-cub raised by wolves, and his journey to adulthood with the help of Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The Jungle Book is collections of short stories. Each story begins with a few lines of poetry. The best known of these jungle...

A collection of the best Sherlock Holmes stories, selected by David Stuart Davies, noted member of the Crime Writers' Association.

"In 2002, at age twenty-eight, David MacLean "woke up" in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No money. No passport. No identity. Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then started to hallucinate so severely he had to be tied down. Soon he could remember song lyrics and scenes from television shows, but not his family, his friends, or the woman he loved. All of these symptoms, it turned out, were the result of the commonly prescribed...

"Collects eighty-three stories ... published over a span of a hundred years. Featuring ... cases from [the master himself, Arthur Conan Doyle], Leslie S. Klinger, Laurie R. King, Lyndsay Faye, and Daniel Stashower; pastiches from ... classic (P. G. Wodehouse, Dorothy B. Hughes, Kingsley Amis), and current (Anne Perry, Stephen King, [Neil Gaiman], Colin Dexter); parodies from Doyle's contemporaries (A.A. Milne, James M. Barrie, O. Henry); genre-bending...