Kenneth Tucker

They came to decadent America, tottering toward insurrection: The Zebonites, beings from a distant star had promised astounding medical and scientific advances in exchange for allowing them to set up a military stronghold in Florida s Everglades. Excited by their promises humanity s advancementof, Joe Tanner applied for and was hired for the contact team, a small group of individuals who could gain access to and lead other into the Zebonite s stronghold. But the Zebonites kept themselves shrouded in mystery, not revealing their natures, communicating only through the Zugs, mutated servants, and robotic bugs. Soon the world learned that the alliance had not been a request, but an ultimatum. The Zebonites, moreover, the treated human beings with contempt, considering themselves superior. They sought to instill dread by torturing, killing, and, if necessary, destroying the minds of those who oppose them...

They came to decadent America, tottering toward insurrection: The Zebonites, beings from a distant star had promised astounding medical and scientific advances in exchange for allowing them to set up a military stronghold in Florida s Everglades. Excited by their promises humanity s advancementof, Joe Tanner applied for and was hired for the contact team, a small group of individuals who could gain access to and lead other into the Zebonite s stronghold. But the Zebonites kept themselves shrouded in mystery, not revealing their natures, communicating only through the Zugs, mutated servants, and robotic bugs. Soon the world learned that the alliance had not been a request, but an ultimatum. The Zebonites, moreover, the treated human beings with contempt, considering themselves superior. They sought to instill dread by torturing, killing, and, if necessary, destroying the minds of those who oppose them...

After his conflict with Capone, Eliot Ness becomes the public safety director of Cleveland Ohio. He scores resounding victories against corrupt unions and organized crime, but confronts an enemy he might not be able to arrest. A string of grotesque serial killings-bodies dismembered and their parts scattered in an area known as Kingsbury Run-threatens the city. As public pressure mounts for the so-called Mad Butcher's capture, Ness learns of very likely suspect-an alcoholic ex-physician, who calls himself Gaylord Sundheim. However, a potential stumbling block arises. The suspect's is the first cousin of Ness and the mayor's chief political enemy. Can Ness investigate Sundheim without appearing to be waging a smear campaign against a political enemy by attacking a relative who may be a harmless eccentric? Meanwhile, Ness begins suspects that Sundheim may have had an accomplice or a copycat follower. Can Ness unravel the mystery before public pressure and political opposition threaten his career?

After his conflict with Capone, Eliot Ness becomes the public safety director of Cleveland Ohio. He scores resounding victories against corrupt unions and organized crime, but confronts an enemy he might not be able to arrest. A string of grotesque serial killings-bodies dismembered and their parts scattered in an area known as Kingsbury Run-threatens the city. As public pressure mounts for the so-called Mad Butcher's capture, Ness learns of very likely suspect-an alcoholic ex-physician, who calls himself Gaylord Sundheim. However, a potential stumbling block arises. The suspect's is the first cousin of Ness and the mayor's chief political enemy. Can Ness investigate Sundheim without appearing to be waging a smear campaign against a political enemy by attacking a relative who may be a harmless eccentric? Meanwhile, Ness begins suspects that Sundheim may have had an accomplice or a copycat follower. Can Ness unravel the mystery before public pressure and political opposition threaten his career?

A Gilligan's Island in outer space, a Lost on another planet, an extravagant satire in the spirit of Voltaire's Candide? ----Perhaps elements of all contribute to Kenneth Tucker's Farewell, MuirsheenDirken. In a society run by judges, in which all persons are judges but some judges are more equal than others, Winston Savage rebels by casting aside his number and choosing for himself a name. As a result he is banished to the mysterious Other Utopia on Saturn's moon Titan Along with him are other misfits, including a jester, a mock Robin Hood, and two bosomy .sex queens, Miss Silly Tuesday and Miss Tasty Pudding. Midway in their flight, news arrives that war has broken out between Earth and the planet Kargan, Jr. And the exiles are redirected to search the asteroid belt for the mysterious Sampo-a device of staggering power reputed to be able to grant boons as well as destroy worlds.

After his adventures in other dimensions based on Arthurian legend and H. Rider Haggard's Africa, Hal Morgan finds himself hurled into an alternate reality based upon the operas of Richard Wagner. There Hal must locate the stolen Ring of the Nibelungs and return it to the Rhine Maidens, before its curse can destroy him. Along the way he must contend with treacherous nobles, gnomes, giants, zombies, witches, a dragon, the Flying Dutchman, Valkyries, Norse gods. To defeat his enemies, Hal must join with Wagnerian heroes such as Siegfried and Lohengrin to confront an enemy from his past. Will Hal be reunited with Glorinda? Will he fail in his mission and cause the cave in of dimensions, so that Louisville will be invaded by flying dragons on Fourth Avenue, sportive elves in Central Park, and greedy goblins preparing to ransack Fort Knox? Like the other books in this series, the finale abounds in high spirited adventure, wild imagination, humor, farce, satire, and dangerous swordplay.

After his adventures in other dimensions based on Arthurian legend and H. Rider Haggard's Africa, Hal Morgan finds himself hurled into an alternate reality based upon the operas of Richard Wagner. There Hal must locate the stolen Ring of the Nibelungs and return it to the Rhine Maidens, before its curse can destroy him. Along the way he must contend with treacherous nobles, gnomes, giants, zombies, witches, a dragon, the Flying Dutchman, Valkyries, Norse gods. To defeat his enemies, Hal must join with Wagnerian heroes such as Siegfried and Lohengrin to confront an enemy from his past. Will Hal be reunited with Glorinda? Will he fail in his mission and cause the cave in of dimensions, so that Louisville will be invaded by flying dragons on Fourth Avenue, sportive elves in Central Park, and greedy goblins preparing to ransack Fort Knox? Like the other books in this series, the finale abounds in high spirited adventure, wild imagination, humor, farce, satire, and dangerous swordplay.

Meet Leo Krull who encountered his dream girl when she emerged from his television screen; Lester Wilthammer, who, when his wife left him, took an almost unimaginable step; Marcus Garth who made a regrettable deal with a human devil during Kentucky's tobacco wars; a werewolf in full hair and fangs who played "Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. I" along with a symphony orchestra; a boy and girl whose first experience with young love becomes entangled with evil-in short stories and novelettes by Kenneth Tucker, tales fanciful, realistic, humorous, and horrifying.

Meet Leo Krull who encountered his dream girl when she emerged from his television screen; Lester Wilthammer, who, when his wife left him, took an almost unimaginable step; Marcus Garth who made a regrettable deal with a human devil during Kentucky's tobacco wars; a werewolf in full hair and fangs who played "Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. I" along with a symphony orchestra; a boy and girl whose first experience with young love becomes entangled with evil-in short stories and novelettes by Kenneth Tucker, tales fanciful, realistic, humorous, and horrifying.

He awoke with a name no one had ever heard and discovered that he was a private eye. And the year was 1940, but a 1940 that somehow he knew was not historical. For no one knew of Hitler and the Axis and the impending war that would engulf the world. Moreover, the city was being ravaged by a peculiar plague that caused madness and then spontaneous combustion of human beings. He himself was suspected of colluding with his wealthy client, Bianca Danielle, in the recent murder of her husband. Then he is charged with her murder, but has no recollection of his killing her. But then the clocks begin ticking backwards toward the hour of her brutal death.

He awoke with a name no one had ever heard and discovered that he was a private eye. And the year was 1940, but a 1940 that somehow he knew was not historical. For no one knew of Hitler and the Axis and the impending war that would engulf the world. Moreover, the city was being ravaged by a peculiar plague that caused madness and then spontaneous combustion of human beings. He himself was suspected of colluding with his wealthy client, Bianca Danielle, in the recent murder of her husband. Then he is charged with her murder, but has no recollection of his killing her. But then the clocks begin ticking backwards toward the hour of her brutal death.

Lawman Eliot Ness has been transformed into legend by the films and television programs that depicted the war he and his "Untouchables" waged against Al Capone and the mobsters of Prohibition-era Chicago. Published by McFarland in 2000, the first edition of this volume analyzed both Ness the person and Ness the myth. This updated and expanded second edition is enhanced by information gathered through interviews with members of the original casts of the television and film versions of The Untouchables. Also included is new material on the historical Frank Nitti and "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," along with several gangsters whom Ness never actually encountered except in his media portrayals, among them Mad Dog Coll and Dutch Schultz. The author concludes by evaluating the life and accomplishments of Eliot Ness, and his impact as a cultural icon.