"Thermonuclear war may destroy human life--indeed, all life--over the planet, but not necessarily so. In fact, the solutions to the equations indicate that the outside parameters for our existence may be as much as three or four hundred years. But no more. The means by which we destroy ourselves ...
In this second Veil Kendry suspense novel, Veil must use his paranormal powers of clairvoyancy to track an African warrior-prince at large in the streets of New York. "Science fiction and suspense make a thrilling combination . . ".--Playboy.
In this tenth novel of his adventures, Mongo is in America's heartland, hoping to buy back a circus for an old friend. But when a string of grisly murders follows the traveling show, the dwarf detective finds himself back in center ring--in the Deadliest Show on Earth. "Chesbro generates genuine ...
While investigating the death of a friend in a small village in the Hudson River Valley, Mongo must unexpectedly duel with an old enemy as well as a right-wing conspiracy.
Dirty dealings by multinational corporations and a bizarre, black-magic wielding enemy flavor the eleventh novel-length adventure for Chesbro's celebrated dwarf detective, Dr. Robert Mongo Frederickson--called by Publishers Weekly one of the most appealing creations in the detective world.
Chesbro's dwarf detective Dr. Robert Frederickson--known to his friends as Mongo--was cited by Time as one of the successful challengers to the bruiser class of hard-boiled heroes. In this novel-length adventure, when a world-class philanthropist offers the P.I. what amounts to a free vacation in...
Mongo and his brother Garth are changed forever, as is their view of the world, because they possess a secret that must never be told. Here the epic adventure continues as the brothers become fugitives and outcasts struggling to solve the puzzle of an extremely dangerous Vietnam veteran with info...
Three apparently separate investigations involving the New York City occult underground of covens, warlocks, tarot readers, faith healers, and palm readers dovetail into a single, explosive climax.
For my full review, please visit Casual Debris.George C. Chesbro's semi-popular dwarf private detective, lecturer and criminologist Dr. Robert Frederickson, better known as retired circus acrobat "Mongo the Magnificent," first appeared in various magazines in the early 1970s, most notably Alfred ...
George C. Chesbro, author of the critically acclaimed suspense novels featuring the dwarf criminologist Mongo, brings his talents as a storyteller to a new series, featuring Veil Kendry, a psychic painter whose landscapes of another dimension attract someone's deadly interest.
ABOUT thirty-three miles, depending on construction detours. I was out of the hospital two days later. There was no word on Garth or Marl Braxton. There was also no sign of Tommy Carling; I made it my business to check on his apartment in the staff quarters, and he was gon...
He wasn't the one who asked to initiate the investigation." "No. We were asked to investigate — we did, and found nothing. Everything Zwayle Labs had done was on the up-and-up. They just worked faster and cheaper than the Whalen people. Certainly we found nothing to present to a grand jury. Some ...
Ali Hakim, absorbed in the task of laying out and organizing the battery of psychological tests he planned to administer to Bone that morning, started and looked up when he heard the door to his empty outer office open and close. He glanced at his watch; it was nine-forty, twenty minutes before B...
"Oh, my," she sighed in a hoarse, small voice as she turned her head and saw me. "Are you all right, Margaret?" "I ... I don't know. I feel so tired, Mongo. I don't know what's wrong with me. I had . . . this terrible nightmare." "Yeah. Me too. I know about your nightmare,...
Guy Fournier's office at the university was on the third floor of a four-story, rather nondescript building called Faul Hall on the southwest edge of the sprawling campus in lower Manhattan, just off Washington Square. I had decidedly mixed feelings upon returning to the university where I had wo...
Floating in a bodiless dream state through the Kalahari night, he watches as a tall Bantu crawls slowly and silently, like some great black desert lizard, to the crest of a steep star dune and peers over its spine. Below, in the dune's trough, the huge fire that had painted the sky an hour before...
by the time Veil returned to his chalet. He removed the tinted aviator glasses and black wig that comprised his simple disguise, tossed the articles on the bed, then poured himself half a tumbler full of Scotch from the well-stocked bar. It had been a long and frustrating day—long because he had ...