Books published by Wildside Press

A two-volume history of France during the Age of Enlightenment, focusing on the reign and influence of Louis XVI, and the establishment of the Napoleonic (First) Empire. Especially relevant is the influence of French culture and law in Continental Europe. Part of a larger series on the history of France.

A two-volume history of the reign of Henri IV of France, especially with regard to the various intrigues surrounding his many religious conversions, and the relationships of the various religious factions in French society in the early 17th Century. Part of a larger series on the history of France.

A two-volume history of the reign of Henri IV of France, especially with regard to the various intrigues surrounding his many religious conversions, and the relationships of the various religious factions in French society in the early 17th Century. Part of a larger series on the history of France.

A two-volume history of the French ruling class during the later 16th Century and ending with the French Wars of Religion, focusing on the internal relationships of the various court factions, and factions of French society as a whole (e. g., the Hugenots), but also including the influence of Renaissance art & culture, and the relationship of the French Court to foreign powers, such as the Papacy, England, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Part of a larger series on the history of France.

Biographies of the public lives of the various Lord Chancellors of England from the origin of the office until the reign of Queen Victoria of England. Also includes an introduction explaining the origin, function an jurisdiction of the office.

Biographies of the public lives of the various Lord Chancellors of England from the origin of the office until the reign of Queen Victoria of England. Also includes an introduction explaining the origin, function an jurisdiction of the office.

Biographies of the public lives of the various Lord Chancellors of England from the origin of the office until the reign of Queen Victoria of England. Also includes an introduction explaining the origin, function an jurisdiction of the office.

This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-Century American playwrights. Volume 19 features Bartley Campbell's work, including: "The Virginian," "My Partner," "The Galley Slave," "Fairfax," and "The White Slave."

A two-volume collection of speeches from many diffferent sources throughout England's history; said speeches delivered in public life, and arranged more or less in chronological order. Volume 2 runs from the Napoloenics conflicts to the late Victorian era.

An illustrated history of architecture design in Europe from the ancient world to the early Enlightenment. Intended to be a reference work on the planning, construction, materials and principles of design through the ages. Volume III covers the early Italian Rennaissance to the English Enlightenment of the 16th & 18th Centuries.

She was too innocent on her honeymoon, when Dave, her love-crazed husband, turned her romantic daydreams into a living nightmare... She was too careless in a Reno gambling club, where as a divorcee hostess she took chances with Cliff, a casino floor man on the make... She was too willing when Tom Grebb, a vicious Syndicate mobster out to break the casino, made certain shocking propositions......But when she found out what his sadistic game really was -- and the chips were down -- the trouble with Ava was as big as trouble can get!

This is the thrilling, true story of Sergeant Jerry Joswick, COMBAT CAMERAMAN!Dodging bullets and bombs, he "shot" his way through some of the most savage fighting in World War II, taking memorable pictures of the terrible face of war -- in Africa, on a commando raid behind Rommel's lines on the disastrous Ploesti air raid, which he was the only cameraman of sixteen to survive in the first wave of D-Day on Omaha Beach in the Battle of the Bulge, where he traded camera for rifle to stay alive parachuting into Germany with the Airborne Thrills, action, the shock of battle-and the determination to get the picture, no matter what the danger-make COMBAT CAMERAMAN one of the most exciting books to come out of the Second World War.

Fen Yont wanted it all-all the cattle, all the range, the biggest part of Arizona Territory.One man stood in his way: Rufe Rogers.Rufe knew that when the cards were down he would have to kill Fen Yont-or be killed.So, gun in hand, he went after Yont, knowing that before he got to him he would have to face all his hired killers first.

Remember: The protagonist of the story, the kid, was a killer. That was and is the simple, stark fact; that was and remains my point in authoring the type of novel I did. I wanted to examine violence-its meaning, its psychological roots, its social implications-in dramatic terms. If I succeeded to any degree, the thrust and power of the story derives from its rawness, its unprettied crudities.The title squares with the unfortunate tendency of the public to oversimplify both the genesis and motivation of the disturbed, antisocial personality which, whether with a gun or boxing gloves, violently expresses its rebellion, its sickness. Let the reader, without being misled, discover for himself my thesis.Sincerely,Caryl Chessman

A synthetic human and artificial intelligence named Melody Lane rises to holovision stardom, and with the aid of fellow synths and human scientists seeks revenge when her creator and true father is murdered by political conspirators.

This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-century American playwrights. Volume 5 features John Howard Payne's "Trial Without Jury," "Mount Savage," "The Boarding Schools," "The Two Sons-in-Law," "Mazeppa," and "The Spanish Husband."

Into the Big Bend country rode wild Dunc Stewart, headed for trouble and the girl, Carmelita. Then old Hamp Wallace took cards in the game, his blazing guns siding law and order. Dunc knew some day he'd be sharing a triple showdown with Hamp and the notorious Jugg Allison...Because one of the three was the fastest draw in Texas!

AT EXACTLY 9:14 A.M.Joyce was driving along the deserted avenue.Just ahead on a side street, Cribbins checked the second hand of his watch for the last time. He swung the heavy Cadillac around the corner. He had a rendezvous with an armored car and a quarter of a million dollars; he had a tommy gun to make sure it all went off smoothly. Everything was timed, everything was planned down to the most insignificant detail-except for Joyce Sherwood and her eight-year-old Chevy, which crashed deep into the side of Cribbins' stolen car.That's how they met-the housewife and the hoods. And terror took over.

Adventure, one of the all-time great pulp magazines, presented novels and short stories by many of the greatest writers from the early to mid 20th Century. This issue features the novel BEYOND THE RIM, by J. Allan Dunn, a tale of the South Sea.Complete contents: Beyond the Rim, by J. Allan Dunn The Peace Hat, by Thomas Addison Cassidy's Consolation Kick, by Hugh S. Fullerton Old Dad, by George L. Catton Gaston Olaf [Part 2 of 3], by Henry Oyen The Devil's Due, by Redfield Ingalls When Oscar Went Wild, by W. C. Tuttle The Education of Billy Stream, by Frederick William Wallace The 500th Shot, by David L. Mackaye The Law in Little Egypt, by Hapsburg Liebe Wild Bill in Deadwood Gulch, by Robert V. Carr Rumor Substantiated, by William R. Thompson To Crack a Safe, by Patrick & Terence Casey

Black Cat Mystery Magazine is a new journal devoted to the best in mystery short fiction. Crime? Noir? Cozy? Private eye? You'll find all genres present and accounted for-with new tales by the best writers of today! The fourth issue features the following lineup:SOMETHING FISHY, by Michael BrackenINSEPARABLE, INSUFFERABLE, by Alan OrloffUSE OF THE AWKWARD HAND, by Julie LeoUMBERTO SCOLARI AND THE FEAST OF PARADISE, by Dayle A. DermatisMOE'S SEAFOOD HOUSE, by Ramona DeFelice LongMUD SEASON, by Su KopilMESSIN' WITH THE KID, by Steve LiskowASSASSIN'S SCROLL, by Tais TengTROUBLE IN MIND, by Cynthia WardPlus a bonus poem: THE TIMELINE MURDERS, by Janet Fox

The street was deserted except for two shadowy figures-tall and menacing. The sun was high, and the hot, dry air held the secret of what was about to happen.…Walt Slade, ace Texas Ranger, walked toward the center of town. Suddenly the two willowy forms materialized, shouting, "Slade, you're gonna die!" The Ranger whirled……sunlight flashed on three guns-the street vibrating to the bellow of gunfire-and facing two of the deadliest rustlers in Texas border country Slade knew only one man would live to tell of the terrible time he was caught-in a GUNDOWN!

Roy J. Snell (1878-1959) authored at least 85 Young Adult novels under his own name and as by David O'Hara, James Craig, and Joseph Marino, most of them specifically directed to boys, though he wrote at least one series of mysteries for girls. His tales for younger children, beginning with Little White Fox and his Arctic Friends (1916), are animal fantasies.This series consists of: Triple Spies Lost in the Air Panther Eye Crimson Flash White Fire Black Schooner Hidden Trail The Firebug Red Lure Forbidden Cargoes Johnny Longbow The Rope of Gold Arrow of Fire Riddle of the Storm The Galloping Ghost Whispers at Dawn Mystery Wings Red Dynamite The Shadow Passes Sign of the Green Arrow

Clark Gable's life was a legend - farm boy to the greatest movie star ever known.Here that legend, and the man behind the legend, are re-created in all their glamour and glory in the first complete book of his fabulous life.

A strange, a fateful bond held these two; Iris, of the ivory and gold loveliness whose very obviousness was alluring -- and protective -- coloration; Traynor, whose love was the ultimate ugliness for it combined passion and replusion. Or perhaps this was not love at all -- but insanity...

Back to the wild timber country, where a man could plunder a fortune, went Carl Hansen -- the giant viking they had once run out of town. Hansen had brains and guts and two big fists to win what he so grimly wanted -- a forest empire and a girl the town said was too good for him. He took them all on -- the clan bent on vengeance, the sudden perils of the great rain forests, even the girl herself, in a bitter struggle that could end only in triumph or death.. A driving novel of the wild country where each man is a law unto himself.

The Great Pyramid of Cheops: geometrical perfection.The Piri Reis maps: ancient cartographs that showed Earth as seen from polar orbit -- they have recently been confirmed by satellite photography.Myriad proofs that Earth has changed its axial tilt during near-historical times: perhaps as recently as 1450 B.C.In 1962 Walt Richmond developed the theory of the "solar tap": a source of electrical power so great that one installation could provide the world's power. In 1963 his research papers were labeled "Top Secret." The Richmonds refused to work under conditions of secrecy, but Walt worked out on his own the ideal structure for a solar tap. The result: an exact replica of the Great Pyramid.The kind of power postulated by the Richmonds' findings makes all the anamolies of history fall into place. This book was written as science fiction. Whether the story approaches the actual beginning of our civilization is something for each reader to decide for themself...

Here is a dramatic, action-packed story about men aboard a sub-chasing destroyer during World War II-a tense, gripping novel that takes its place beside The Cruel Sea, The Caine Mutiny, and the stories of Conrad and O'Neill as a notable book about men who fight on the raging seas to conquer an enemy out to destroy them.

Based on the Unity movement of Christian practice and philosophy, this volume focuses on the metaphysical aspects of both the practice and consequences of prayer as spiritual practice.

Former schoolmaster Collin Melrose is found dead, but why is he sitting in the wrong chair? And did Lily Klimpton kill herself after her lover's death, or did she die at the hands of another? In Found Dead, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson return to unravel two mysterious tales by the devious Lyn McConchie. Local squire's daughter Miss Bibiana Paget befriends the ailing Collin Melrose, who lives near her family's estate. Melrose does not have long to live, so Miss Bibi isn't shocked when she visits his cottage and discovers him dead. Yet why would a man who couldn't walk unaided be sitting in a chair that was not his favorite, the one he always sat in? Something is very wrong, and Miss Bibi consults Holmes and Watson. Can they untangle the knotted threads of Melrose's past and expose a killer? In their second case, Holmes and Watson visit the Isle of Sheppey to investigate Lily Klimpton's death. Was it suicide, as everyone but her family believes, or was she murdered? And is her death related to that of Alistair Johnson, her erstwhile employer and paramour? Holmes and Watson's investigations uncover a far deeper evil than they first suspected-but can they prevent more deaths and capture those responsible?

Francis Aloysius Finn, owner of the A-Plus Detectives Agency & Famous Detectives School, gets more than he bargained for when Norris Beamer asks Finn to investigate his father's death. Is Viola, Beamer's new step-mother, really a black widow, or did her four elderly husbands die of natural causes? Is one of her neighbors involved? Or her boss? Or someone else… With the help of his Famous Detectives School students and Hilary Kendrake, his temporary secretary, Finn uncovers a deadly scheme of drug-dealing and murder-but will one of them be another victim?