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Concern is mounting for Parker Robinson:
Parker's Aunt Ruth, worried that New York City is too dangerous a place for Parker to complete his community service, has taken it upon herself to have him transferred to the wilds of western Minnesota, where she imagines it will be safer, it being the idyllic land of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Little House on the Prairie.
Now Parker's job is to try to acquire virgin tallgrass prairies to help save the threatened...
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STALKING LIONS, another kind of theater of the mind. You've enjoyed them on radio; now read them in print.
YOU HAVE TO FEEL FOR PARKER: Yes, he's safely back at college, but still on probation. What's more, he has a floor counselor who hates his guts and wishes him dead, and the dean of the school wishes he could expel him and blames Parker for the bad publicity generated when he appeared, semi-nude, on morning network TV, as the likely suspect...
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STALKING BULLS, another kind of theater of the mind. You've enjoyed them on radio; now read them in print.
YOU CAN SYMPATHIZE WITH PARKER ROBINSON: On the one hand, he has a guardian aunt who thinks he's a responsible college student but doesn't know he's on probation for skipping a half-semester's worth of classes to go surfing Hawaii. He has a Polynesian girlfriend whose face could launch a thousand outrigger canoes. He has a dog that listens...
4) Captain Underhill Unlocks the Enigma: The Queen is in the Counting House and Don't Touch That Dial!
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The Queen is in the Counting House is a timely tale about up-and-coming Boston Red Sox catcher Zachary Devlin who could perhaps take the team to a World Championship, but only if he can survive - literally - the annual Cape Cod exhibition game. A child's prank goes horribly wrong, trapping a young boy in a cast iron safe in Don't Touch That Dial! The listener follows in real time as Captain Underhill must use his wits to defeat an enemy he can't out-think...
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In The Legacy of Euriah Pillar, retired Cape Cod Police Captain Waverly Underhill reveals how the bizarre will of an eccentric millionaire leads to treachery, deceit, and a triple homicide. In the sequel, Dr. Alexander Scofield joins Underhill as they uncover clues beginning with Euriah Pillar's long-forgotten strong-box and ending up at the West Barnstable Burial Ground crypt of the mysterious Jabez Howland.
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In The Whirlpool, retired Cape Cod Police Captain Waverly Underhill and Dr. Alexander Scofield try to take a vacation but instead find themselves kidnapped by an escaped convict before being swept into the spiral maw of a monstrous tidal whirlpool, fourteen hundred feet across. Can even their wits save them from one of nature's rarest and most awesome displays of raw power? In The Cobra in the Kindergarten, Underhill and Scofield must find a deadly...
7) Captain Underhill Uncovers the Truth: Behind Edgar Allan Crow and the Purloined, Purloined Letter
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A treasure-trove of Edgar Allan Poe memorabilia found in a hundred and fifty-year-old credenzaan early book of Poe poetry, Poe's obituary, a stuffed Raven, a desiccated cat, a lock of hair, and a Tiffany gold bug broachmay turn out to be the stuff that dreams are made of at The Antiques Roadshow, but only if retired Cape Cod Police Captain Waverly Underhill and Dr. Alexander Scofield can thwart the rogue trying to make off with it all.