Michelle Hammer is an ex-cop turned PI. Her seemingly routine cases often turn out to be much more that she first expected, but she can handle herself in any situation using both her wits and fighting skills.
A Sailor Steve Costigan Story Steve has an iron jaw in the ring but a glass jaw when it comes to women. First appeared in 'Fight Stories' September 1930 and is in the public domain.
Commissioner Sanders is called upon by the British Government "to keep a watchful eye upon some quarter of a million cannibal folk, who ten years before had regarded white men as we regard the unicorn." Written when world powers were vying for colonial honor, Sanders of the River encapsulates the beliefs and assumptions that motivated such quests. There is religious palava, raiding palava, and all the while, Bosambo, magnificent chief of the Ochori, watches on.
The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures further south. Docking on land, they encounter hostile black-skinned natives before escaping back to the ocean.
