Fifth-grade monster detective Will Allen and his best friend and partner Jeannine Fitsimmons try to help their first client with a monster that is tormenting him, but appears to others only as a harmless golden ring.

In this sequel to Will Allen and the Great Monster Detective, fledgling detective Will Allen discovers that being a monster hunter requires much more than just brains and bravery. But when his very first client is tormented by strange images that Will does not understand, can even timely assistance from Will's best friend and partner, Jeannine Fitsimmons, help him solve the mystery and reveal the true monster in time to save them all from the razor-sharp claws of a terrifying HARPY?

Fifth-grade Will Allen enlists the help of Bigelow Hawkins, the great monster detective, when he finds a monster under his bed, but it is Will who must conquer the monsters himself.

In this third volume in the CHRONICLES OF THE MONSTER DETECTIVE AGENCY, there is only one horror that could be a more dreadful challenge for fledgling Monster Detective Will Allen than battling a roomful of monsters - MIDDLE SCHOOL! But if that's not enough, Will’s new case is sure to make his head spin: he has to defend a BULLY! But can Will rise to the occasion and rescue his brutish client when his special monster-fighting flashlight, the RevealeR, has suddenly turned more dangerous than the monsters themselves?

Middle school sleuths Will Allen and Jeannine Fitsimmons are unmatched when it comes to solving mysteries, but their cleverness cannot save them when monsters begin springing to life all across their town! But in a fantastic stroke of luck (or IS it?), a mysterious business card appears that summons the Great Monster Detective, Bigelow Hawkins, to teach them how to conquer their fears and defeat the monsters. Now, in their Baptism of Fire, these newly christened monster detectives must race against time to unravel the clues and uncover the secret of the dreaded HIDDEN BEAST in time to save themselves and their friends from its terrible power!

Before establishing himself as the "master of disaster" with the 1970s films The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Irwin Allen created four of television's most exciting and enduring science-fiction series: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants. These 1960s series were full of Allen's favorite tricks, techniques and characteristic touches, and influenced other productions from the original Star Trek forward. Every science-fiction show owes something to Allen, yet none has equaled his series' pace, excitement, or originality. This detailed examination and documentation of the premise and origin of the four shows offers an objective evaluation of every episode--and demonstrates that when Irwin Allen's television episodes were good, they were great, and when they were bad, they were still terrific fun.

In this sweeping history of racial interaction and violence from the post-Civil War to school integration in the 1960s, Lee Durham Stone, Ph.D., reframes the "idea of Kentucky." Through this searing lens, Dr. Stone shows how the institutional violence of enslavery rippled through each subsequent era in the Bluegrass State. Examined herein are a trial and "legal lynching" in 1907, the secretive Possum Hunters of 1914-1916 who terrorized the Western Kentucky coalfields, Jim Crow education, the strange case of a physician who drank poison before entering the courtroom (he died), the examination of small-town spatial segregation, and the local resistance to school integration in 1963. There is more, too, including Black businesses and African Americans in coal mining. This book cites all its sources, so it would be useful for students and other researchers.