New Releases by BEN AMES WILLIAMS

While investigating a sensational homicide, a star reporter discovers that a well-oiled murder machine is moving directly toward him and the woman he loves.

ALS from Williams at 124 Chestnut Hill Road, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, to an unidentified person, ackowledging receipt of a letter from that person, with brief personal comment.

Manuscripts of novels, short stories and non-fictional works (some unpublished).

Papers relating to his career as a writer, educator, publisher, and bookseller. Includes records of the accounts of his bookselling business, correspondence with many of the important writers of the twentieth century, and mss. of many of his books, among them The dreamer of Devon (published as: The dreamer of Devon : an essay on Henry Williamson. -- London : The Ulysses press, c1932), Learning my abc''s (published as: Learning my abc''s. -- Hanover, N.H. : Westholm Publications, c1958), Here''s to togetherness (published as: Here''s to togetherness : a modern fable.-- Hanover, N.H. : Westholm Publications, c1961), and HMS Cephalonia (published as:HMS Cephalonia : a story of the North Atlantic in 1918. -- Hanover, N.H. : Westholm Publications, c1969). Also includes material related to his publishing company, Westholm Publications, and to the organization he founded, The Friends of the Dartmouth Library.

The story of a wicked but beautiful woman. Time - War of 1812 thru the Civil War, with Maine as it scene.

Short stories have long been regarded as a potent form of writing. Concentrated and distilled yet engaging the reader at a pace that commands attention in the pages it occupies. Narrative and characters are still fully fleshed and the story is usually no longer, or shorter, than it needs to be. Handed down from the oral tradition they have been variously regarded as ''apprentice pieces'' written by authors on their way to becoming better writers as well as fodder for innumerable periodicals over the decades for those who liked their reading in more succinct chunks or perhaps with a ''cliffhanger ending'' to keep the interest until the next exciting installment. Today they are regarded as works in their own right and, in the pens of the most highly skilled, to be greatly admired. In this series we take the very best of those American Short stories and present them here, year by year, for you.