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Sunken warships, super computers, archaic weapons, and stolen treasure encompass a corporate executive in a web of ancient treachery, where help may not be help, friends may not be friends, and success may not be success.The second Humboldt Prior mystery, in which sunken warships, super computers, archaic weapons, and stolen treasure encompass Prior, now a corporate executive, in a web of ancient treachery, in which help may not be help, friends may not be friends, and success may not be success. A seemingly routine request made in the course of a seemingly routine business trip requires that Humboldt Prior make his way through a network of intrigue reaching the highest levels of government and business. Action swirls from New York to London and from there to the misty north of Great Britain. Repeated attempts on Prior's life require him to recall his distant past, receive aid from unexpected sources, and to exact his own toll of destruction. Derfflinger ends in an explosion of violence and with an epilog of further deception.

In the first sequel to Bob Garland's Woodhouse Avenue Follies, we again find Humboldt Prior still residing diffidently in his old row-house on Woodhouse Avenue; still be-deviled by the schemes of his fellow executives at the moldering Prior & Cousins Leather Works; and still enmeshed in the plans of the glamorous TV newsanchor, Penelope Rote. As in the tradition of several English writers, the unlikely duo strives to foil a series of farcical corporate pollution conspiracies, mega-church machinations, real estate rampages, and similar antics, all ending with more of Humboldt's ?small victories.? Read on, and laugh out loud at the Antics on Woodhouse Avenue.

In Nonsense on Woodhouse Avenue, we again join our intrepid friends, the diffident, sexagenarian bookkeeper Humboldt Prior and the stylish, hard-charging TV news anchorwoman Penelope Rote, as they battle to thwart a series of nonsensical political campaign plots and ridiculous inspirational finance shenanigans. Scheming business associates, inept news directors, miss-motivated motivational speakers, and incompetent corrupt lobbyists abound as the unlikely team successfully leads us with laughter through absurd trials and tribulations. Laugh out loud, again, at the Nonsense on Woodhouse Avenue, $14.95 U.S. Mary Ann Grossmann's Saint Paul Pioneer Press reviews of the previous books of this series included "this gentle, still-in-print mystery" and "there's an old-fashioned charm to this story" (Woodhouse Avenue Follies) and more recently "The charming, quirky series will appeal to those who appreciate understated adventure with a likable protagonist" (Antics on Woodhouse Avenue).