Best Selling Books by Byron Preiss

A Son of Sherlock Holmes? Unthinkable? Or is it true? The first clues to that remarkable question lay within The Adventure of the Woman in Red, an epic mystery which spans sixty-eight years, three countries and the careers of two famed detectives. The atmosphere of the old Holmes'' stories rises like a London fog from every scene in the over one hundred lushly colored pages by award-winning artist ralph Reese. Preiss'' story pits England''s finest deductive minds against what may be Moriarty''s most insidious puzzle. For lovers of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and The Return of Moriarty, here''s a visual novel in the Sherlockian tradition! The return of the landmark series Fiction Illustrated. Special Edition.

Fast-paced science fiction, humor and a journey into the world of rock and roll. Mark Gutstein was a typical young man of 1996. Calm, relatively anonymous, one more number in the files of the government. Then his best friend is murdered, leaving a strange set of clues to the secret of the crime. It is a puzzle so incredible that Gutstein is forced to solve it himself- -but to do it he had to travel time and that, of course, was impossible-wasn''t if? One of the first trade titles created that combines a science fiction novel with a graphic novel. First published in 1979.

In collaboration with leading sci-fi authors, Asimov developed this suspenseful series featuring his beloved positronic robots. Originally published as six volumes, these new "ibooks" editions each collect two novels in an elegant, value-packed format.

The Electric Company gang jokes around to make reading more fun. Each joke emphasizes words containing the same letter or letter combinations.

"In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places--some that have existed, or might have existed, and others that can''t, couldn''t or shouldn''t exist. The result is stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow"--

When the silent e''s attach themselves to the ends of words, they miraculously change both the sound and the meaning of those words. The invasion of the silent e''s brings chaos to the lives of millions of Americans.

A young boy finds life in the White House, where his father is always busy, very lonely, and so finds a family of bats and other friends to share adventures with.

The Spidey Super Stories comic book series was produced and edited by Marvel Comics and the Electric Company. It introduced children to many Marvel characters via storylines with Spider-man, also including several characters from the Electric Company television program.

Supplies humorous definitions for imaginary words, such as torsoso, socratease, abdicake, riff-raft, randumb, and hobododo

Humorous illustrations encourage recognition and use of active verbs such as fly, give, find, look, ride, and help.

Young readers journey back in time to eighteenth-century America to witness Benjamin Franklin''s famous kite experiment that revealed the secret of electricity.

Essays by eminent scientists and short stories by renowned science fiction authors cover such topics as quasars, black holes, stars, supernovae, extraterrestrial contact, galaxies, the new physics, and other related subjects