ABANDON ALL HOPE!: Cheerful Humor For Impossible Days

Abandon all hope? Yes! And this collection of humorous short stories "ABANDON ALL HOPE - cheerful humor for impossible days" will make you wish you'd done it sooner. You've got 20 comic tales dealing with such matters as the bumbling machinations of castle intrigue in MACBETH P.I. - detective to the Middle Ages; the travails of Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov trying to get his subject to cooperate in PAVLOV'S CAT; and the sordid history of a man whose loss of his chile cooking crown makes him go mad trying to regain it in THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF ESTRADA.But wait! There's more: Dr. Sherlock Holmes chases the evil Professor Moriarty across London hoping to halt his fiendish candy-coated pill substitution plan in THE PILL SCHOOL; Doc Holliday and the Earps valiantly fight fish rustling in SHOOT-OUT AT THE O.K. FISHING HOLE; and scientists team up with military leaders to stop the Nazi menace by creating a decent cocktail in THE MANHATTAN PROJECT.20 stories of glittering mirth designed to make you ABANDON ALL HOPE!From the Kindle Book author of "THE PC AFFAIR - a comic mystery of Murder, Mayhem, and Data Processing"; "NO SHARP EDGES - humorous stories for salty days"; and "TALES OF DELIGHT AND SHAME" - cheery and satirical Southwestern/Hispanic stories for big and little people.Stories included in ABANDON ALL HOPE!:MACBETH, P.I. - detective to the Middle Ages, SHAKESPEARE'S WIFE, THE TAMING OF THE PIRATES, THE LIFE OF A LEXICOGRAPHER, THE DAY THE GREAT PAINTERS GOT THEIR COMPUTERS, PAVLOV'S CAT, SHOOT-OUT AT THE O.K. FISHING HOLE, THE MANHATTAN PROJECT - a 40s memory, DR. PLANT, COME QUICK!, THE PHILOSPHERS' CLUB, THE CORONER, THE SAD STORY OF CORKY THE SNOWMAN, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF ESTRADA, FRUIT TALES - stories of heroic fruits and pomes, THE SWEET LIFE, THE INVENTORS, THE PILL SCHOOL, HOW CECELIO GUANTE GOT INTO THE HALL OF FAME, THE TEN BILLION NAMES OF SALSA, and THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING DOCTOR