Psychobiologist Dr Paul Virag has been dragged from his experimental station in Tobago at the whim of an heiress who requested that he chaperon her two prize monkeys across the Atlantic. But what has been an incovenience to his calm life takes an unexpected turn into a sinister mystery.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 31 August 2011
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The Monkey and the Tiger - A Judge Dee Mystery
The Monkey and The Tiger includes two detective stories, "The Morning of the Monkey" and "The Night of the Tiger." In the first, a gibbon drops an emerald in the open gallery of Dee's official residence, leading the judge to discover a strangely mutilated body in the woods—and how it got there. In the second, Dee is traveling to the imperial capital to assume a new position when he is separated from his escort by a flood. Marooned in a large country house surrounded by fierce bandits, Dee confronts an apparition that helps him solve a mystery.
Discovery School - Jeff Corwin Experience: Amphibians
What allows these cold-blooded vertebrates to live in water and on land? Examine many different species of amphibians, including salamanders in Florida, the bufo marinus toad in California, the monkey frog in the Amazon, and the red-eyed tree frog and the blue jean frog in Costa Rica.
In a race against time, Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illigal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer - Youling the Ghost. Can they stop the Ghost before he murders again?
Recruited to help the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, manage to track down a cargo ship headed for New York City carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as "the Ghost."
