Alexander Spencer

One summer night, a falling star crosses the sky, describing a line of flame high in the atmosphere and leaving a glowing greenish streak in its wake. Early next morning, a huge cylinder is found half-buried on Horsell Common, hot from its journey through space. Under the eyes of a curious crowd, the cylinder's end begins to unscrew itself - and the tentacular creature within emerges... Earth is being invaded by Mars. Against the human tide of panic...

This presents six stories of Wodehouse's comic mastery of English prose.

As assistant to his anatomy instructor, Doctor Fettes is given the job of receiving fresh cadavers for his class. Since the matter is such a delicate business, Fettes is told to simply pay the transporters and not ask any questions. But when Fettes recognizes one of the bodies as a young woman he knows to have been alive and well the day before, he begins to wonder just how these poor souls are meeting their end.

According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject

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"The immense talent, passion and literary brilliance that Conan Doyle brought to his work gives him a unique place in English letters."-Stephen Fry "Doyle's modesty of language conceals a profound tolerance of the human complexity"-John Le Carré "Holmes has a timeless talent, passion and literary brilliance that puts him heads, shoulders and deerstalker above all other detectives."- Alexander McCall Smith Arthur Conan Doyle's The Memoirs...

The action shifts from London to Berlin, Paris, and Berne in this spy thriller of a lone agent who tracks his quarry through occupied France. Betrayed, deserted and relentlessly pursued by friend and foe, "Foxhound" is driven by a single obsession: kill Rommel.