James Babcock: 8 books

If you carry a pack of cards with you, you’ll never suffer boredom if you get stuck for something to do while waiting in the airport for a late connection, or waiting for your date to finish primping, or…well, you get the idea. Play these fifteen new solitaire games―plus the classic Klondike―and kill time enjoyably.

“Love is a many-splendored thing.” It certainly finds expression in myriad ways, and often laughably--as you will see from these 38 amusing stories. As Socrates aptly said, “To see ourselves as others see us is to break out laughing.” To which Aristotle added, “True love is serious business....

Take a trip to the islands of the Pacific with retired professor J. Humbert Flintlock, his pilot son, his Jewish neighbor lady, and her daughter. It’s an entirely innocent project to update the professor’s famous Guide to the Birds of Oceania. But a murder and an airplane hijacking embroil them...

A poor young black man, winner of a $23 million lottery, is found dead in his bed with a pistol in his hand—clearly it’s not an accident and apparently it’s a suicide. But with all that money at stake, could he have been murdered? Detective lieutenant Joe Phillips teams up with bank trust officer...

The marina of a small town on the Gulf Coast of Florida’s Panhandle is awash in more than salt water. Somebody local is bringing in drugs from Mexico. How and by whom is it being done? Police detective Joe Phillips and his wife Maryanne, the local bank trust officer, share their skills to investigate...

A wealthy widow, heiress to a fortune from Florida oranges, is poisoned—KGB style. The shocking crime sets tongues wagging in a small town on the Gulf Coast shores of the Florida Panhandle. Police detective Joe Phillips and his wife Maryanne, a bank trust officer, follow the money trail while probing...

The Love of Money is THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.Joe Phillips and Maryanne Larkin -- a police detective and bank trust officer -- team up to solve three financial crimes in the Florida Panhandle:Was it suicide--or murder?A poor young black man, winner of a $23 million Florida lottery, is found dead in his...

Thirty years in the future, journalist Hank Thomas uncovers a conspiracy--a secret war plan to seize the world’s last big oil field. With the help of a patriotic Russian girl, the newsman visits the war zone in western China’s famous Turpan Depression. There he finds romance while also discovering the final damning evidence that will upend an American presidential election.