This is not a treatise on beginning a stamp collection. This work consists of interesting comments and articles that were published in the Erie Stamp Club Newsletter over the last five year period. It is full of humor as well as information about stamps. Anyone connected with stamp collecting will enjoy it immensely.

Detective Ann Morgan is sent to the hill country to investigate the mutilation and killing of goats. A copy-cat crime occurs while she is there, but this time it is a human, mutilated and killed. There is also a missing woman involved. Ann believes the missing beauty, the dead man and the mutilated goats are somehow connected. She and her clairvoyant friend Loretta rent a cabin in the hills in order for Ann to be closer to the scene of the crimes. They meet moonshiners, herbalists, hunters, hill billies, ridge runners, folk musicians as well as an assortment of other characters. The action never stops in this adventure in the hills.

Computer crimes are impersonal and the perpetrators are seldom apprehended. So thought young Conrad Graves as he embarked on a career of bank transfers and identity thefts. His big mistake occurred when he adopted the identity of a man, not only wanted b the FBI, but by the mob whom he had double-crossed. Conrad eventually seeks refuge in Guyana where he has established an offshore account. He meets the two lovely daughters of his banker and he must choose between them. Meanwhile, he has the FBI and the mob to worry about. This is a rousing adventure with sex and violence.

The Dead Man's Spouse is the second story in the Detective Ann Morgan Series. One need not have read the others in order to enjoy this episode. It is heavy with sex and intrigue. A seemingly common accident turns out to have been murder. Who would want to harm popular and mild mannered professor Harry Wilhelm? The paper trail leads in many directions and another recent widow surfaces. The similarity between the two deaths seems more than a coincidence.-Even though Ann has committed herself to chemistry prof John Klement, she cannot help having an attraction to basketball coach Mark Simmons. There are many surprises in this tale of mystery and romance.

Jungle explorer Jim Taylor agrees to lead an expedition to locate the source of gold and emeralds found in the Purus River, a tributary leading to the Amazon. Jim and his three assistants set off with twenty-five bearers, as well as the wealthy sponsor, rugged Craig Manners, owner of a pharmaceutical company. All does not go well as "El Tigre," the notorious bandit and kidnapper harasses them. The group rescues four hostages being held by El Tigre, a geologist, two sisters, and Martina, a woman of royal heritage. These extra individuals complicate the mission in many ways, not the least being the beauty of princess Martina. In the course of the trek, the group must also deal with a military outpost at the entrance to the rainforest and with the native Campa in the rainforest. This is a tale of sex and high adventure.