William Baer

Many Words Press-an imprint of Able Muse Press-is proud to introduce Advocatus Diaboli of the Catholic Themes, initiating a new series by the author of the popular Jack Colt mystery series: Advocatus Diaboli is the story of a murder mystery caught up in a...

In 1900, sharpshooter Annie Oakley, "the most famous woman in the world" still performs with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, but when the touring season is over, she lives a quiet life in bucolic Nutley, New Jersey. Childless, Annie has a special interest in...

In 1885, Jack Shannon, a young border rancher, initiates a dangerous plan to secure statehood for the Arizona Territory. Aware of the territory's reputation for lawlessness, he plans to rid Arizona of its most notorious gunmen. Author: William BaerISBN-10: 1956199179ISBN-13: 9781956199178Publisher: Southwell PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

"Bocage" and Other Sonnets is a collection of meticulously crafted sonnets that take a hard-edged, uncompromising look at human behavior--like the man trapped in an elevator with his former lover's husband, the criminal staring at his own wanted poster, the colorblind visitor in an...

Author: William BaerISBN-10: 1962168743ISBN-13: 9781962168748Publisher: Winged PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2024Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.62d

Classic American Films explores the origin and development of many of the most influential and revered films in cinema history, and does so with the aid and insight of the people who actually wrote the screenplays. These lively, candid, in-depth interviews are filled with...

When Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize, he was cited for "a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment." The lively interviews in this collection reveal Walcott's generous and brilliant intelligence as well as...

Amid extraordinary controversy at the Academy Awards ceremony in 1999, Elia Kazan was belatedly presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career as a director of American films. Despite the protests regarding his "friendly" testimony at the HUAC hearings in 1952, there was...

A collection of new and selected poems from William Baer.Author: William BaerISBN-10: 1939574269ISBN-13: 9781939574268Publisher: Measure Press Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2019Pages: 206Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Fourteen on Form: Conversations with Poets by William Baer. Interviews with Willis Barnstone, Robert Conquest, Wendy Cope, Douglas Dunn, Anthony Hecht, John Hollander, Donald Justice, X. J. Kennedy, Maxine Kumin, Frederick Morgan, John Frederick Nims, W. D. Snodgrass, Derek Walcott, and Richard Wilbur. When...

In 1919, Hollywood film star Mary Pickford, "the most famous woman in the world," is currently in between pictures and recovering from the Spanish Flu when a man shows up at her Malibu hideaway one night asking for help. The man, who's been shot...

Supermodel Deirdre Flanagan investigates a brutal and complicated murder that takes place at Central Park's Bethesda Fountain. Beginning at a celebrity wedding at the Museum of Natural History, Deirdre's dangerous investigation will lead her to Ireland, Mallorca, and back to New York. Author: William...

Many Words Press is proud to present Murder in Nashville, the second book in the captivating Deirdre Mystery series by William Baer, famed author of the Jack Colt mysteries. During her Grand Ole Opry debut, a country music starlet is mysteriously abducted. Supermodel and...

Many Words Press-and imprint of Able Muse Press-is proud to introduce Murder in Times Square, a Deirdre Mystery, initiating a new series by the author of the popular Jack Colt mystery series: When a young woman in a red designer dress falls twenty-five stories...

After Jack Colt is hired by a pretty FBI agent to solve a horrific murder case in Barnegat Light, he finds himself called upon by the daughter of a distinguished judge to another murder scene. Although Colt remembers that his uncle once warned him...

After solving the assassination case of his beloved uncle, Colt finds himself truly alone, ditched by his girlfriend. However, there's not much respite or time for introspection for him: he's called on again to solve a new murder case, along with a suspiciously related...

On Halloween night, Private Investigator Jack Colt sees a young woman stuck by lightning on Shades of Death Road. He then begins investigating a series of gruesome murders at a number of New Jersey historic houses that are allegedly haunted. Author: William BaerISBN-10: 1956199330ISBN-13:...

On the bridge over Paterson's Great Falls, a retired state trooper is murdered by a girl in a grammar school uniform. The victim was the beloved uncle of Jack Colt, a private investigator descended from the inventor of the revolver. While investigating his uncle's...

Author: William BaerISBN-10: 1956199098ISBN-13: 9781956199093Publisher: Southwell PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2025Pages: 442Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.98d

During the tumultuous year of 1969, Jack Burke is an undergraduate at Rutgers University. He's multi-talented, vain, and likeable. On the surface, he might seem like many other bright college kids of his confused generation, but his intellectual conservatism makes him an outsider, completely...

To protect his threatened daughter, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Brett Buchanan is forced to write a novel about being forced to write a screenplay. As he does so, he attempts to uncover the extortionist which leads him to Easter Island, Scotland, San Juan, and then...

When Dick Ramsey, an award-winning sportswriter, is confronted with a number of devastating personal losses, he begins to question his life and his career. He fears that his lifelong obsession with sports is ultimately self-absorbed and superficial. Author: William BaerISBN-10: 1956199136ISBN-13: 9781956199130Publisher: Southwell PressLanguage:...

In the Thirteenth-Century Papal States, Visconte Malavolti, a violent mercenary knight, is haunted by a singularly heinous crime. Nevertheless, after meeting with his old friend Dante Alighieri in Ravenna, he pursues his nefarious schemes in the Papal States where he has a terrifying encounter...

Author: William BaerISBN-10: 1962168492ISBN-13: 9781962168496Publisher: Winged PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2024Pages: 286Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.60d

Bryce Sinclair, a young American expatriate, is living in Rome and living la dolce vita. Until the Vatican calls and sends him on a disturbing trip to Fatima, Portugal, and the deathbed of his Dominican uncle.Author: William BaerISBN-10: 1956199012ISBN-13: 9781956199017Publisher: Southwell PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2025Pages:...

When a priceless relic is discovered missing from Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the Vatican asks American Kyle MacBryde to investigate. His dangerous investigation into a bizarre conspiracy leads him from Paris to Ethiopia and Scotland and back to Paris.Author: William BaerISBN-10: 1956199497ISBN-13: 9781956199499Publisher:...

In the final two decades of the last century, a group of young poets, mostly Americans from the Baby Boom generation, initiated, rather tentatively and gradually, a formalist literary revival. Given the status quo of those times, it was no small accomplishment, and the...

In William Baer's Times Square and Other Stories, there are everyday characters walking extraordinary paths for love; there are smart, skillful characters struggling to reconcile their viewpoints and convictions with the status quo in fields such as art, education, the cinema and religious doctrine....

Write poetry in the great metrical tradition of Dante, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Frost, and the poets of the current Formalist revival. In this contemporary guide, you'll learn how to write metrical poetry in all the major forms, from blank verse and quatrains to sonnets and...