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It started as an investigation of a simple insurance claim, but soon the Continental Op is embroiled in murders, narcotics, a religious cult, and a supposed family curse. No one is who they seem, and the bodies continue to pile up.

The murder of Arlis Perry inside Stanford Memorial Church flummoxed detectives for nearly 44 years. Then the case ended with a bang. Early on the morning of Oct. 13, 1974, a security guard found the body of 19-year-old Arlis Perry underneath a pew inside the historic church at the heart of Stanford's campus. The deeply religious wife of a Stanford sophomore, Arlis had gone to pray in the sanctuary late the night before.

Rinbon, the prince of thieves, is sent to rescue a priestess who possesses a jewel of tremendous power known as the Flame of Gilliad. Charvella has been kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Zuthal Ka and taken to his demon-haunted temple. It's up to Rinbon to save Chavella before Zuthal Ka can seize the jewel and use it for his evil purposes. Elmray, a young sorcerer apprentice, witnesses his mentor's death at the hands of the evil sorcerer Yoza. Twelve years later, Elmray must confront Yoza.

Metropolis is a classic of science-fiction that created an impact on the literary world which reverberates to this day. Its dramatic presentation of the city-world of the next century stirred the minds of readers with an unforgettable vision of a metropolis grown to Gargantuan proportions, of humanity fighting to keep its soul against the monster world of machinery, robots, and complexity that had been spawned in our own century. The book inspired a movie, possibly the best science-fiction film ever made.