Most Popular Books by Andrew Peters

Arthur and Yaz live in a tiny village beneath the Devil''s Chair, where dark tales are more than mere superstition. Searching for Arthur''s missing father, the two encounter strange beasts, a fallen angel and a broken spell. They must make the most dangerous journey of their lives and use all they have learnt to confront absolute evil.

Further adventures of Otis King, Memphis'' Number One Welsh Blues Detective, as he tries to increase his bank balance, play the righteous Blues, bed a blonde or two and stay well away from all kinds of trouble.Why is Otis transporting an Indian Chief from Florida? Why does he follow a bridegroom to Las Vegas? What are his problems with the Welsh Secret Service? Why does he need to attend a wedding at Blessed John Lee Cathedral?The answers

A collection of stories all told in one voice. Narrators as varied as a country doctor, a junior devil, a reality TV star, a retired policeman.......and Douglas.What sets a middle-aged ex-teacher off on a new, sick hobby? Can you ever have too many detectives? Why are politicians feeling a little queasy? How can salad vegetables bring you fame and fortune? What''s the secret of an Arizona orphan? And really, what can we do about Wendy?Short stories to make you laugh, to make you think, to make you wonder.

Ten stories in monologue form, from authors as diverse as the Archangel Gabriel, a Detroit car worker, an embittered musician and a Welsh farmer. Subjects as diverse as vampirism, plotting murder, prophetic dreams, punishing bad manners and ingrowing toenails. Quirky short stories to make you think and make you laugh.

Las Vegas in the 60s. Mark Paris is pretty much an ex. Ex-boxer, ex-soldier, ex-mathematician, ex-husband. Now he passes the time winning small in casinos and offering assistance to people who can''t find it anywhere else. He calls himself The Professor, much to the amusement of local criminals and barmen, and the contempt of the police. An early phone-call from an acquaintance brings him his latest job, cleaning up after a sudden death, and at much the same time he''s invited to help an elegant businesswoman with big trouble on her hands. Can The Professor work out the right directions to head in, before his past catches up with him, or the people who wish him ill manage to cut his equation off permanently?

Invasive bigheaded carp (Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix and Bighead Carp H. nobilis) are a major nuisance throughout the Midwest. Horizontally oriented (or side-looking) hydroacoustic split-beam sampling is used throughout the Mississippi River basin to quantify the density and size distribution of bigheaded carp. Accuracy of these estimates relies on target strength (TS) returns from individual fish, and orientation is generally known to affect TS. Specifically, fish swimming perpendicular to a transducer generate a stronger TS return than one swimming towards or away from it. This study conducted two experiments to determine the effect of orientation on TS return. The purpose of this study was to 1) determine the statistical relationship between the max TS return and TL of Silver Carp, 2) quantify the relationship between body orientation and the mean TS return for Silver Carp, 3) compare the relationship between body orientation and the mean TS return for Silver Carp and Smallmouth Buffalo and 4) compare echosounding the tethered and free-swimming Silver Carp. To address objectives 1-3 a study was conducted where tethered Silver Carp and Smallmouth Buffalo were echosounded at multiple orientations. Each fish was tested every 10 degrees from 0°-180° or 180°-360° (where 0° and 360° are the same). The fourth objective was addressed using a free-swimming study where Silver Carp were echosounded in a controlled environment for a week. The tethered study consisted of Silver Carp (range 436mm-715mm total length (TL)), and Smallmouth Buffalo (range 361mm-576mm TL) suspended in a 0.1ha research pond on a carousel at orientations from three categories (lateral, oblique and head/tail). The free-swimming study consisted of Silver Carp (range 425mm-790mm TL) in a 0.1ha research pond where the fish were able to behave normally, and data was collected for 7 days. Target strength returns were measured using a horizontally facing 200kHz split-beam transducer for both studies.Consistent with expectations, we found that tethered orientation affected the TS return (P =