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Assigned to a precinct on Manhattan's Lower East Side and stuck with an incompetent partner, New York Police Sergeant Marian Larch must rely on old friends when a savage stabbing and gangland-style slayings occur on her beat.

All three siblings of the Decker family were killed as teenagers in bizarre accidents. When their father dies, too, his widow suspects that murder has become a family affair.

King Sarcowicz, known to his friends and acquaintances as King Sauerkraut, means well. He even brings in his elderly neighbor's garbage cans when he happens to remember. But King is careless of people. As a partner in Keystone Robotics in Pittsburgh, King has a way of antagonizing staff and customers. He's great with machines, but give him a human being and he doesn't know where to begin. His life seems to be made up of work and consuming large quantities of beer and eggs. King is brilliant, however. Nobody would deny that. He's just dreadful with paperwork and deadlines and organization and personal relations.

Christmas season at the Metropolitan Opera in 1920 features Enrico Caruso and Geraldine Farrar in a varied schedule of mostly Italian operas. For members of the Metropolitan chorus, however, the season's main feature is danger. An urn falls on the head of a soprano chorister in Samson and Delilah; a tenor from the chorus is found hanged in a dressing room before the evening's performance of Mefistofele; in I Pagliacci, a trapdoor drops open and three singers fall through.

In her very first novel, Barbara Paul examines insanity through the lens of science fiction. When a god-like aliens lands on Phythia, men everywhere start going mad.

Shelby Kent is a normal housewife with a special gift - she possesses extrasensory powers that make her a "human lie detector". She perceives a red aura which radiates around anyone telling a lie. She never misses - she's 100 percent accurate and naturally law enforcement agencies make good use of her unique skills. Even the UN requests her extraordinary skill - it appears that revolutionaries are being sold armaments. No one knows who is behind this.

Struggling for answers when two murders occur - the first on a crowded city bus, and the second a busy subway - inexplicably without witnesses, police lieutenant Marian Larch uncovers a deadly murder-for-hire ring.