Ten Dollar Silver Certificate from 1939 turn up at the Gypsy Kitchen, a wine and cheese emporium in Quincy. Nelson tries to solve the mystery and uncovers what might have been espionage on WWII. Teaming up with Jasmine, a 200+ pound bounty hunter, they have an exciting and sometimes humorous adventure when they get crosswise from Vinnie, a collection man for a protection racket.

You can forget ordering expensive takeout whenever you're confronted with a seemingly empty fridge. Instead, you just need to take another look. With some Gypsy Kitchen magic, you'll be able to take whatever that "empty" fridge has to offer, mix it with what's inside those "bare" cabinets, and create satisfying and tasty dishes everyone will enjoy. Lisa Lamme shows you how to . . . Dress up Caesar salads with some English mustard Add Szechuan style to boring chicken with tahini Use ranch to take steak skewers to a new level Turn up a vegetarian dish's heat with hot sauce And more! Now you can go gourmet with a simple sweep of your kitchen, turning the little you have into anything you crave.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

The first in the classic series featuring Chief Inspector Damiot of the Paris police. "Chief Inspector Damiot of the Paris police, recuperating from a bullet wound, seeks sun and rest in Courville, his boyhood village in Provence. But Courville is lately in a ferment about the unsolved murders of two young girls--one a promiscuous villager, the other still unidentified. And there are also rumors of a monster seen at the supposedly-empty Chateau De Mohrt. Intrigued, Damiot soon discovers that the last of the De Mohrts, a severely crippled genius, is indeed in residence--with a scientific lab in full swing..." -- Kirkus