Frank Carlson Library

In 1862 Nevada Territory, after finding his foster parents murdered and scalped, twelve-year-old Pinky Pinkerton, son of a railroad detective and a Sioux Indian, inherits a valuable deed and must hide from dangerous Whittlin Walt and his gang of desperados.

Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, and assistant deputy Drover engage in an epic battle with the coyotes, Rip and Snort, as they all seek some meaty treats.

Something is stirring in the darkness.Something that seeks prey!But two young people, naïve about the world, find themselves worried about more practical things…getting along.Conflicted.In love.Young.Dangerously emotional.They were both of those things.But more than that…they were the children of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.And they're not supposed to be so irrational.Are they?But one thing you can be certain of is that emotions rule every...

The tragic death of a teenage girl leads Detective Tom Grant and the City of London, Ontario police force into the world of online and in-person "bullying" faced by youth today, as well as the legal and tragic personal struggles involved with the fentanyl opioid crisis. The story is set in the framework of the legal realities of the Canadian forensics and policing system, highlighting the intricacies of Canadian Law faced by Detective Tom Grant as...

Only a few months have passed since the day Kester Lanner forced an angry ghost through the spirit door, but business prospects for dr. Ribero's supernatural agency haven't improved. Things are looking grim when the agency lands a contract which they must share with a rival agency headed by Dr. Ribero's sworn enemy, Larry Higgins. Desperate for the job, the team accepts and begins to investigate the seaside town of "Lyme Regis, where elderly victims...

Holmes is summoned to a school in Belgium to investigate a student who has a monthly habit of writing the names of faculty members on the steps of a nearby church. What is concerning is that, shortly afterwards, the faculty are found dead.

Travers turned to Wharton. "I ask you, George, as a man of the world-do schoolmasters and mistresses have souls full of glamour and passion and intrigue? Are they torn by the same emotions that rend people like us?" At first the old schoolmaster's poisoning was judged a suicide. But there were too many suspicious circumstances to satisfy Inspector Wharton of Scotland Yard. Why, for instance, had the dead man clung to a large book as he expired? And...

"He says it's something serious. Might be murder." When the well-dressed Mrs. Wilson came into his office, her business seemed simple enough-although a little odd and mysterious for a woman of her bearing. She wanted Travers to find a missing man, who used to do a second-rate Houdini act in music halls. If Travers found her man, he was not to contact Mrs. Wilson but to advertise his find in the European edition of the New York Times. As first one...

CSI in the land of elves, but they aren't cute and Christmassy, they're sometimes sinister, and definitely deceased... Private eye Nicely Strongoak is your average detective-for-hire, if your average detective is a dwarf with a Napoleon complex. In a city filled with drug-taking gnomes, goblins packing heat and a serious case of missing-persons, Strongoak might just be what's needed. But things are about to turn sour. When on the trail of the vanished...

A lady's maid was getting too big for her skirts. But does that justify murder? Everyone agreed: Arabella Parnell thought far too much of herself. She worked her way up from scullery maid to lady's maid for one of Arrojo's finest families and the wife of a personal friend of the mayor's. She wrote letters to her former employer's daughter as if they were intimate friends. She flirted with some of the most prominent young men in the county. A young...