While their father Fenton Hardy is working on case of museum robberies he asks Frank and Joe to stake out the Black Parrot, a shipping boat docked in Bayport. The Hardy boys get a job loading crates aboard the ship, but because the crew is so unfriendly and they are kept very busy, they don’t have a chance to investigate so instead they decide to follow another lead and travel to New York to search for a rare old book. While scouring a used book store they locate a book titled Empire of the Twisted Claw which bears a symbol on the cover which matches a ring the first mate of the Black Parrot was wearing.
Taran, an assistant pig keeper, volunteers to assist in the destruction of the dreaded Black Cauldron, the army of the diabolical Arawn. With his faithful friends, Taran marches off to face great danger with a courageous heart.
From the Baltic to the Black Sea - Studies in Medieval Archaeology
From the Baltic to the Black Sea offers a rare insight into the closed world of medieval Eastern Europe and opens up a neglected archaeological tradition to English-speaking readers. Selections focus on early European ethnic formations and states, the demography of medieval populations, and the nature of rural settlement and urban development. The book challenges the intellectual assumptions of medieval archaeology and questions its relationship to history and prehistory. It exposes the limitations of a strictly empirical approach to studying the period when written history began and the early medieval states emerged.
He is a damned good cop -- a burned-out homicide detective wrapped around a Smith & Wesson .38 and a vodka bottle. She is his partner -- twice divorced, nursing a grudge against men, obsessed by the awful temptation of love. Joseph Wambaugh, the tough ex-cop who writes the hard-hitting best sellers -- a master storyteller whose characters are as powerful and as passionate as his plots.
Police investigator Lucas Davenport is enjoying a new job and new family, but his happiness is marred when two bodies a black man and a white woman are found hanging in the northern Minnesota woods.
