Books published by publisher State Street Press

It's 1929, and Ticky Maltravers is the toast of London high society, adored by everyone—or so it seems, until somebody poisons him over dinner. Now it turns out that numerous people with secrets to hide had every reason to wish him dead. But which of them murdered him? For Freddy Pilkington-Soames, newspaper reporter and man-about-town, the question hits a little too close to home, thanks to an unfortunate drunken encounter with Ticky's corpse which he'd much rather the police didn't find out about—and thanks also to his exasperating mother Cynthia's seeming determination to get herself arrested by tampering with the evidence. But a pretty girl with big blue eyes is demanding his help in solving the mystery, so what can he do but agree? Now all he has to do is hide the wrong clues, find the right ones, and unmask the murderer before the police discover what's really been going on. That ought to be easy enough. If only people didn't keep getting killed...

Beautiful illustrations and lyrical rhyme describe California's fertile valley and the changes as settlers come, plant orchards, enjoy and sell the produce. Years pass; more people come. New communities are planned and need more land. Trees are chopped down; orchards are fewer. But, thankfully, some remain, and we can be grateful each time that we eat a delicious juicy red cherry so sweet.

Defying his parents, Robinson Crusoe goes to sea. He is captured by pirates but escapes to Brazil. He makes a fortune using slave labor to grow tobacco and sugar. He sails to Africa to bring back more slaves but is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. Everyone else is drowned. For over 20 years he lives alone. He learns to hunt and fish and make shelter. Then the cannibals arrive. Will this be the end of his adventure, or the chance to escape?

-PRAISE FOR DOUGHBOY' S DIARY-Baker has the gift of natural storytelling ....he succeeded in finding the voice and point of view of the young man he was in 1917-1918....his account has all the freshness and immediacy of the experience as it unfolded. A fading chapter of American history springs to life... Nancy S. Shedd, Huntingdon County HistorianA fascinating account giving insight and great human interest to a neglected time in our history.Gladys C. Murray, Centre County Library and Historical Museum...important book ...documents the 28th Division of the Pennsylvania Na­ tional Guard ..."Zeb"Baker brings to life the essentia l part Company F from Huntingdon , Pennsylvania played in the war and specifica lly in the Battle of Argonne ....does this with accuracy through his poetic writing ...lively characterizat ions...well documented account.Robert W. Ott, D.Ed. , FRSA, FPAEA , Director, The Bellefonte Mu seum-From the Foreword -Almost like an actor waiting in the wings, Franci sco "Panch o" Villa , a two-penny Mexican revolutionary rejected by his own nation, appeared on the World War I scene. On March 9, 1916, at German y's instigation , he crossed the bord er between Mexico and the United States, burned Columbi a, New Mexico, and killed some of the citi­ zens in a ploy to divert President Woodrow Wilson from throwing America 's strength into the European war on the side of the Allies.The invasion , like nothing so much as a cockroach attacking an eagle, backfired on Germany in a big way; it gave us the perfect reason for mobilizing and training men for war, ostensibly against the laugh­ able clown, Pancho Villa, but, ultimately, against the Central Powers in Europe.General John Pershing supervised the training of America 's young manhood for war. From all over America , volunteer regiments converged on Texas to prepare for war.I was one of those volunteers who, with my comrades from Huntingdon, Pennsylva­nia, formed Company F of the 28th Division. As I write this in 1979, I am 86 years old and obsessed with telling what I remember of my fallen comrades before I, too, "go west."

An escaped convict threatens to eat young Pip’s heart for breakfast. The ghostly Miss Havisham invites Pip to her eerie home. A mysterious benefactor makes him suddenly wealthy. Pip’s life will never be the same again. Pride, humility, love, loyalty and shame compete for Pip’s emotions. Will his quest to become a gentleman enable him to melt the cold heart of the beautiful Estella, or will it destroy his happiness? Pip’s tale is full of mystery and surprises. What is the nature of Miss Havisham’s interest in him? Why does Estella want to break his heart? Why does the dangerous convict return? Most importantly, who has given Pip his great expectations?

The D.D.I. recognized him and smiled. “That was a great case you brought us. You’ll be interested to hear that it is a case of mur-r-der!” For eight years Basil Thomson headed the famous C.I.D., New Scotland Yard. He knew the Yard inside out. Now in this tale of mystery and detection we are taken behind the scenes. We are shown the greatest detection machine in the world in motion, and see how the Yard tracked down its man. Stand, then, with young P.C. Richardson on the misty corner of Baker Street, while the traffic of the city swings by, and fate lays at his feet the beginning of his career. Out of the fog brakes shriek, a big car jolts to a stop, and from beneath the wheels the crowd disentangles a bundle of old clothes, within which is a man quite dead; a man who had said to someone, “Very well, then; I’ll call a policeman”—and was killed. Work with him to the ingenious solution, when he takes from his pocket the clue holding the fate of a human life. Richardson’s First Case was originally published in 1933. This new edition, the first in over seventy years, features an introduction by crime novelist Martin Edwards, author of acclaimed genre history The Golden Age of Murder. “The story is a good one, with enough mystery in it to keep the reader wondering.” Daily Telegraph

A Terrifying Power. A Horrifying Curse.Lucy Piper lives a lonely existence on the precipice between life and death. She possesses the horrifying ability to resurrect real-life tragic events in her nightmares, reliving over and over, as if she were there, the last few moments before the victim takes their final breath. Car accidents, drownings, plane crashes - Lucy has seen it all. No one understands what it's like living death by night and fearing sleep by day.When Tyler Sims and his family move to town to escape past traumas, Lucy is drawn to him. The two of them are linked through their dreams, and with Tyler's trust and friendship, hope for a brighter future returns to Lucy's world. But Tyler's presence awakens something else in Lucy, and with this new knowledge she will be forced to make impossible decisions. Decisions that will change history, and the future.Chilling, haunting and compelling, this novel is the first in a two-part series for fans of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer and The Hidden Memory of Objects that will leave you breathless for days.

Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality, first published in a 1609 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS.: Never before imprinted. (although sonnets 138 and 144 had previously been published in the 1599 miscellany The Passionate Pilgrim). The quarto ends with "A Lover's Complaint", a narrative poem of 47 seven-line stanzas written in rhyme royal.