Ted Shiskin's second book, Intrigue, Mystery, and Adventure, is comprised of twenty short stories and will keep you anxiously waiting to read the next tale. His stories whisk you across the country, from South Florida during a smuggling incident down to the Florida Keys, where several individuals vie to retrieve hidden Aztec treasure, and then out to a gas station in the Nevada desert. Then, read about an adventurous hike near the mountainous Canadian border. Watch an artist in the Minnesota lake country battle for his life against an unknown assailant. Take a ride with a young woman running from her estranged boyfriend. Sit back in a cross country bus and join a government security officer as he attempts to foil a terrorist. Each story is exciting, and all are completely unique.

Everyone at the table is as surprised by Grandma's little maneuver as I am, but I'm not looking at my relatives or even at Peggy, I've got my eyes glued on Grandma Agee. She's reading Uncle Bob the riot act over at the dessert table?I'm concentrating hard on Grandma's face, specifically her lips. But she's turned ever so slightly away from me so I can only make out a bit of what she's saying: ?I told ya? and ?button your lip? among the finger wagging and eye scowling she's giving poor Uncle Bob. With Grandma's odd reaction and my dad being gone, unable to explain himself to me ever again, I feel an urgent need to find out what in the world he ?got into? that Grandma Agee doesn't want me to know about.Book One of the Agnes Kelly Mystery Adventure Series will make you laugh, set you on the edge of your seat and leave you wanting more - both the older and younger reader alike. Agnes Kelly, a girl growing up in the 1960?s, is not unlike twelve year old girls of the 21st century. She is inquisitive, observant and thoughtful. Middle school readers will relish Intrigue in Istanbul-An Agnes Kelly Mystery Adventure by Christine Keleny from start to finish. I know my middle school students will thoroughly enjoy Agnes' exciting escapades and so will you. Jill Peterson, teacher of 5th & 6th Grade Language Arts, Raymond, WisconsinAgnes Kelly is the 1960s American version of Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce.Intrigue in Istanbul is set in 1961 and is the first in a 3 book series of cold war books for middle grade readers.

TEN STORIES OF MYSTERY - SUSPENSE - ADVENTURE - INTRIGUE is a collection of imaginative and entertaining stories. This book of unique stories provides hours of reading pleasure.

Marissa has led the life of a successful news anchor for ET News in Ramses, Egypt, for about five years now. All was going well for this reporter until Moses came to town. Upon his arrival, she felt a stirring, a dissatisfaction, trouble in her soul. A stranger by the name of Moses has shown up recently in Goshen, Egypt. Is this the Moses of old, the one who committed murder and ran? Assigned to do a documentary on Moses, Marissa plans on receiving her coveted Emmy. If only she had used her reporter’s nose for what lied ahead of her to gain that Emmy. As her beloved pharaoh finds himself doing battle with this Moses she’s been assigned to, does she stay loyal to Pharaoh? If so, what price would she pay? Marissa never dreamed of how her life and the lives of all those in Egypt would change the day this man called Moses came to town. How did Egypt’s beloved pharaoh become a victim of this Moses and his unknown God? Only time will tell.

ANOTHER RICK O'SHEA WILD ADVENTURE! Rick, Helga, and Lute are commissioned to find the truth about a claim made that Russia's sale of Alaska to the US was not legally completed in 1867. Once again, their signature sleuthing methods enable them to quickly find the truth and resolve the matter once and for all. Of course, this leads to more offers: uncover the thieves of rough diamonds from a Canadian mine, and help neutralize a threat by radicals to plant bombs in the US. During one of their commissioned adventures, the intrepid trio stumble upon a long-hidden stash of gold in an ancient fortress. After hazardous chases around Alaska, Russia, the Mediterranean, Canada, and India in seaplanes, helicopters, and a US destroyer, the team heads home somewhat frazzled and intent upon seeking less harrowing and dangerous future adventures

Edgar Wallace belonged to the same genre of writing as Jules Verne, and this adventure novel is set at the time of the Russian Revolution and introduces us to a whole collection of very different characters who become involved with the protagonist, a young 22-year-old who while working for a Russian/English oil company, has the most incredible adventures.

A twelve year old girl (Agnes Kelly) goes to Istanbul with her grandmother after her father's funeral. There Agnes finds out that there is something suspicious about her father's death and that her father was a spy in the CIA. The story takes place in 1961,