The second Humboldt Prior mystery, in which sunken warships, super computers, archaic weapons, and stolen treasure encompass Prior, now a corporate executive, in a web of ancient treachery, in which help may not be help, friends may not be friends, and success may not be success. A seemingly routine request made in the course of a seemingly routine business trip require that Humboldt Prior make his way through a network of intrigue reaching the highest levels of government and business. Action swirls from New York to London and from there to the misty north of Great Britain. Repeated attempts on Prior's life require him to recall his distant past, receive aid from unexpected sources, and to exact his own toll of destruction. The story ends in an explosion of violence and with an epilog of further deception.
The Elephant Mask is the fourth Humboldt Prior Mystery. Now an aging executive of a troubled computer company, Prior is given responsibility for a promising new project that applies computer science to Latin American archeology. From the ruins of the ancient Moche people, the project surfaces the strange problem of the Elephant Mask and then nearly dissolves in a mysterious triple assassination. Prior travels to Lima, Peru to try to salvage the project. There, he is entangled by unscrupulous enemies, unpredictable old friends, and the assets and liabilities of his distant past. In Peru, New York, and San Francisco, Prior must weave his way through a maze of attempted seduction, trickery and betrayal, further killings, and cutting edge software technology. To survive, he must solve the triple problem of the murders, the underlying crime, and the age-old mystery of the Elephant Mask. Beneath an enormous relic of military technology, the story ends in an unexpected, ghastly execution, and more of Prior's past reaches out to him.
Humboldt Prior, computer manufacturing executive, returns to his Midwestern hometown and finds himself dangerously enmeshed in a decades-old turmoil of murder, arson, and political malfeasance involving members of one of the City's most prominent families. Protests erupt over the construction of an urban Interstate Freeway and Prior's company is wrongfully implicated in the construction plans. Prior forms an alliance with Julie Harrington, the State Highway Commissioner. His investigation reveals evidence of further crimes and Prior's mysterious distant history returns to confront him. After many episodes of peril and suspense, Prior and Harrington solve the mystery, but Prior must face a future drawn from his past with promise of more mystery and great opportunity.
The fifth Humboldt Prior mystery is a story of economic greed, murder, intellectual racism, and more murder. A casualty of a traumatic, Silicon Valley corporate takeover, Humboldt Prior, now 60 years old, relocates to his midwestern hometown, where he has been offered a position as a university lecturer on information technology. There he finds himself entwined in a pair of mysterious crimes, one scientific, and one financial, and both leading to murder. At the request of high government officials, Prior acts alone, unknown to his college and local police authorities. His only help comes from his long-ago experience in secret intelligence, certain distant friends in the old European aristocracy, and an attractive female geology professor. Confronting both new and old enemies, Prior must solve the intricate mysteries and bring the culprits to ingenious and well-deserved justice.
In the first sequel to Bob Garland's Woodhouse Avenue Follies, we again find Humboldt Prior still residing diffidently in his old row-house on Woodhouse Avenue; still be-deviled by the schemes of his fellow executives at the moldering Prior & Cousins Leather Works; and still enmeshed in the plans of the glamorous TV newsanchor, Penelope Rote. As in the tradition of several English writers, the unlikely duo strives to foil a series of farcical corporate pollution conspiracies, mega-church machinations, real estate rampages, and similar antics, all ending with more of Humboldt's ?small victories.? Read on, and laugh out loud at the Antics on Woodhouse Avenue.
An elegant, intricate mystery, which is seldom what it seems to be. During the 1960's, the young Humboldt S. Prior, nominally a computer specialist, but actually an involuntary agent of a little-known US intelligence service, is projected into Latin America to contact a long-concealed war criminal, who is a needed expert on neurological warfare. There Prior becomes entangled in a web of vengeance, treachery, and repeated murders. Fearful enemies and weapons, each more deadly then the last, menace Prior as he strives to accomplish his mission and live to tell of it. North and South Americans, Nazis, Israelis, and German aristocrats surround Prior in deceit and savage conflict. To survive and succeed he must select from the best of these competing forces, and align himself with them, and in doing so find success and the potential of great happiness and a new future. The story ends with a final jolt of uncertainty and mystery.
In Nonsense on Woodhouse Avenue, we again join our intrepid friends, the diffident, sexagenarian bookkeeper Humboldt Prior and the stylish, hard-charging TV news anchorwoman Penelope Rote, as they battle to thwart a series of nonsensical political campaign plots and ridiculous inspirational finance shenanigans. Scheming business associates, inept news directors, miss-motivated motivational speakers, and incompetent corrupt lobbyists abound as the unlikely team successfully leads us with laughter through absurd trials and tribulations. Laugh out loud, again, at the Nonsense on Woodhouse Avenue, $14.95 U.S. Mary Ann Grossmann's Saint Paul Pioneer Press reviews of the previous books of this series included “this gentle, still-in-print mystery” and “there's an old-fashioned charm to this story” (Woodhouse Avenue Follies) and more recently “The charming, quirky series will appeal to those who appreciate understated adventure with a likable protagonist” (Antics on Woodhouse Avenue).
The Hoisted Petard is an "explosive" story of murder, corruption, sex, and a local political campaign. In his sixties, Humboldt Prior, now a university lecturer in information technology, is enmeshed in a decades-long series of crimes which he solves using his past experience as a secret intelligence agent and a corporate executive, while avoiding (or not avoiding) the blandishments of a very provocative younger woman.
Bob Garland, the author of 'thriller' novels: "Slaying the Red Slayer, Derfflinger, R.I.P. 37E, The Elephant Mask, Tradedown, and The Hoisted Petard," featuring an ex-spy, ex-corporate executive, and now university lecturer named Humboldt Prior. With Woodhouse Avenue Follies, again following the traditions of several English writers, Bob Garland begins a new series of novels featuring a 'different' Humboldt Prior.
In Unicornery on Woodhouse Avenue, when a ring of his bizarre relatives plot to unload the stocks of nonsensical, high-risk startup-companies (also known as 'Unicorns') on unsuspecting investors, Humboldt Prior must rise to new heights to thwart their ridiculous schemes, helped, unintentionally, by the absurd antics of a preposterous local political figure. Chuckles abound as Humboldt, aided again his dear Third-Cousin Julia Prior, struggles behind the scenes to overcome their distorted investment strategies and bring financial peace and tranquility back to Woodhouse Avenue.
In the hitherto missing Sixth Mystery, Humboldt Prior, now well-established as a third-career university lecturer at the College of Information Technology, finds himself “on loan” to the prestigious Harger Business School, serving on a task force to track down $1,000,000 of lost endowment funds. As the mystery unfolds, present day murders and other crimes are compounded by those more ancient, along with the usual academic infighting and graduate student seduction attempts. Prior must employ all his skills as a former secret agent and corporate executive to solve the case without adding his name to the growing list of victims.
(Harmonica Play-Along). The Harmonica Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the notation, listen to the audio to hear how the harmonica should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. 8 songs, including: All Along the Watchtower * Blowin' in the Wind * It Ain't Me Babe * Just like a Woman * Mr. Tambourine Man * Shelter from the Storm * Tangled Up in Blue * The Times They Are A-Changin'.
Previously published as Invisible Republic and already considered a classic of modern American cultural criticism, The Old, Weird America is Greil Marcus's widely acclaimed book on the secret music (the so-called "Basement Tapes") made by Bob Dylan and the Band while in seclusion in Woodstock, New York, in 1967--a folksy yet funky, furious yet hilarious music that remains as seductive and baffling today as it was more than thirty years ago. As Mark Sinker observed in The Wire: "Marcus's contention is that there can be found in American folk a community as deep, as electric, as perverse, and as conflicted as all America, and that the songs Dylan recorded out of the public eye, in a basement in Woodstock, are where that community as a whole gets to speak." But the country mapped out in this book, as Bruce Shapiro wrote in The Nation, "is not Woody Guthrie's land for made for you and me . . . It's what Marcus calls 'the old, weird America.'" This odd terrain, this strange yet familiar backdrop to our common cultural history--which Luc Sante (in New York magazine) termed the "playground of God, Satan, tricksters, Puritans, confidence men, illuminati, braggarts, preachers, anonymous poets of all stripes"--is the territory that Marcus has discovered in Dylan's most mysterious music. And his analysis of that territory "reads like a thriller" (Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly) and exhibits "a mad, sparkling brilliance" (David Remnick, The New Yorker) throughout. This new edition of The Old, Weird America includes an updated discography.
The portrait of a very young Bob Dylan on the cover of 'The Times They Are a Changin' is probably one of the most recognizable and famous album covers of all time. Photographer Barry Feinstein took that photo, as well as many more of Dylan throughout his career. His images have been published throughout the world many times over, and have become synonymous with our perceptions of that place and time in rock and folk music history. Inspired by a series of photographs that Feinstein took in Hollywood during the 1950s and 60s, Bob Dylan wrote an extraordinary series of poems that have remained unpublished for decades. They are thought-provoking, witty and erudite observations of the world; through the lens of Feinstein's photographs, they speak volumes about the anonymous faces and places of Los Angeles, and offer wry commentary on images of stars and legends in the neighbourhood at the time. Photos of Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland float through the book, as do poignant images of starlets, casting couches, employment agencies and palm tree'd boulevards. Feinstein was there with a camera to capture some world-famous events, such as Marilyn Monroe's memorial service, and he photographed the forgettable moments, preserving them perfectly and timelessly. Bob Dylan's unsettling and distinctly unique perspective informs and enlivens every page, an irresistible interpretive voice narrating the visual images from photo to photo.
From the moment he was given his first extensive movie assignment on Judy Garland's A Star is Born, Bob Willoughby began a remarkable journey, working non-stop with the publicity departments of all the major Hollywood studios. He chronicled the production of 100 films as the first "outside" photographer brought on to what were, at the time, closed sets. Willoughby compiled a stunning collection of candid shots and intimate portraits of some of Hollywood's biggest stars during his long and heralded career Those photos, along with inside stories, amusing anecdotes, and personal observations, are brought together in a loving tribute to some of the greatest screen stars of the 20th century. Hollywood: A Journey Through the Stars also goes beyond film -- it represents a lifetime of capturing images of actors, directors, jazz musicians, and dancers. Tender and revealing, Bob Willoughby offers a rare look into his personal life and the public lives he documented. ILLUSTRATIONS
In Turn it Up!: American Radio Tales, 1946-1996, Bob Shannon ushers the reader behind the scenes of the lives of special radio people, most of whom are considered legends in an industry which has changed so dramatically in the past decade it's possible we will never see the likes of such individuals again in radio.
In Turn it Up!: American Radio Tales, 1946-1996, Bob Shannon ushers the reader behind the scenes of the lives of special radio people, most of whom are considered legends in an industry which has changed so dramatically in the past decade it's possible we will never see the likes of such individuals again in radio.
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