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Ein Leckerbissen für Liebhaber des Humors

In Peters Witzbüchlein werden die 100 besten Witze vom Mathematiker und Zauberkünstler, Peter Wilker, einem passionierten Witzesammler, serviert. Die Witze sind vielseitig, geistreich und frech, und eignen sich bestens zum Weitererzählen.

• Vorwort
• Witze
  • Aus dem Berufsalltag
  • Rund ums Geld
  • (Zwischen) Menschliches
  • Beim Doktor
  • Zerstreute Gelehrte
  • Aus der Geschichte
  • Aus Wien
  • Aus den Religionen
• Zu Peter Wilker

Erstausgabe 2013; erste digitale Ausgabe 2021, PDF 50 Seiten

A humorous take about gypsy life.

1st edition 1998, PDF 53 pages.

A humorous take about gypsy life.

1st edition 1997, PDF 40 pages.

A story that speaks against nuclear warfare through a biblical creation and destruction story.

1st edition 2015, 8 pages.

Read about the adventures of Kirstin, her dog Spunky and a dog whistle she found in the attic.

Illustrated by the author.

Third ebook of short stories by Arthur Herzog. Other ebooks in the series Body Parts and Beyond Sci-FI.

1st edition 2014.

Crimeworld is a dark crime novel written by Steve Valentine and illustrated by Daniel J Frey.

Meet Izzy DeKiller, the bizarre, charismatic owner of Hollywood's only Crimeshop, CRIMEWORLD. Spikey hair, tattoos and a bullet in his head, not the kind of guy you take home to Mum. When the brutally murdered body of a beautiful girl is found sealed within his locked store, Izzy becomes suspect number one. He's forced to prove his innocence as the clock ticks and a terrifying serial killer makes his presence felt.

But just who is Izzy, how can he recall so much detail and why does he refer to...

Crimeworld is a dark crime novel written by Steve Valentine and illustrated by Daniel J Frey.

Meet Izzy DeKiller, the bizarre, charismatic owner of Hollywood's only Crimeshop, CRIMEWORLD. Spikey hair, tattoos and a bullet in his head, not the kind of guy you take home to Mum. When the brutally murdered body of a beautiful girl is found sealed within his locked store, Izzy becomes suspect number one. He's forced to prove his innocence as the clock ticks and a terrifying serial killer makes his presence felt.

But just who is Izzy, how can he recall so much detail and why does he refer to...

Crimeworld is a dark crime novel written by Steve Valentine and illustrated by Daniel J Frey.

Meet Izzy DeKiller, the bizarre, charismatic owner of Hollywood's only Crimeshop, CRIMEWORLD. Spikey hair, tattoos and a bullet in his head, not the kind of guy you take home to Mum. When the brutally murdered body of a beautiful girl is found sealed within his locked store, Izzy becomes suspect number one. He's forced to prove his innocence as the clock ticks and a terrifying serial killer makes his presence felt.

But just who is Izzy, how can he recall so much detail and why does he refer to...

Crimeworld is a dark crime novel written by Steve Valentine and illustrated by Daniel J Frey.

Meet Izzy DeKiller, the bizarre, charismatic owner of Hollywood's only Crimeshop, CRIMEWORLD. Spikey hair, tattoos and a bullet in his head, not the kind of guy you take home to Mum. When the brutally murdered body of a beautiful girl is found sealed within his locked store, Izzy becomes suspect number one. He's forced to prove his innocence as the clock ticks and a terrifying serial killer makes his presence felt.

But just who is Izzy, how can he recall so much detail and why does he refer to...

A war between a good and a bad shaman illustrates a lot about the shamans' world, their rituals, practices and believes.

This ebook is beautifully illustrated by the author himself.

"I never used to go with girls," said Holly as we lay in bed together. "Before I was a vampire I mean. Before I was a vampire, I used to like boys well enough. But soon as I got turned, well, girls just seemed more, I don't know, appealing somehow."

London, 1888. 18 year old Katie Bell is an average girl working in an East End hat shop, but that is all destined to change the night she is bitten by a vampire. Falling in with a gang of lesbian vampires led by the enigmatic Poppy, Katie is thrust into a world of carnal lusts and forbidden pleasures, where the desires of the flesh go hand in...

A shallow earthquake slides a California town full of bigots into Mexico. The Mexican mayor of the town across the border declares the Americans "drybacks" and won't let them leave. The two countries verge on war.

The small towns of Hinchville, CA, and La Lacrimosa, Mexico, dispute ownership of a small strip of land on the border between them. When an earthquake causes a bizarre landslide, and several of the houses in Hinchville end up in La Lacrimosa's town square, the minor dispute becomes an international incident.

The Mexican mayor turns the tables on the Americans by forcing them...

A prize-winning scientist has a formula to conquer aging but it's stolen and becomes a blockbuster drug, Imortalon, which produces negative effects.

It was possibly the discovery of a lifetime: a drug that would reverse the effects of aging, seemingly indefinitely. The tests were all positive, first on rats, then monkeys and other large animals, and finally, on humans. It was a dream come true, the promise of a healthy, happy life, with all the benefits of youthfulness, including energy, vitality, and sex drive, for 200+ years or more. Tens of millions clamored to be among the first to take...

A man gives an innocent lie about his birthday and ends up with astrologer-crooks and a girlfriend.

Philip Castle, newly separated from an adulterous wife and afflicted by middle-age doldrums, is a professor at the University of Chicago off to the Caribbean for a relaxing vacation. But life is far from restful. His first day on the island he watches a small plane crash, piloted by a man who looks disturbingly like him. He then meets Marie-Celeste - a fabulously beautiful and provocative young woman with whom he makes love - only to find that she is the mistress of the powerful and mysterious...

A real estate woman succumbs to a male buyer only to learn he and his clan are from outer space.

Sally Edwards is the only realtor in the sleepy Hamptons town of Bayville, New York. Business is slow, and Sally is beginning to wonder if she will be able to make ends meet, when she receives an offer that seems to solve all of her problems. Her little company is bought out by Millennium 3, a large, multi-national conglomerate that has a mysterious history. Executives from Millennium 3 take over her office, and Sally is charged with the responsibility of purchasing as many homes in the community...

Four Americans seek refuge from skin cancer which has become an epidemic in the US. They meet in Canada where one has rented a gothic house close to the Eskimo village which add to the trouble. They fear the earths magnetic poles will trade places and exterminate the human race.

They try experiments that simulate a magnetic pole reversal. Then the polar swap actually happens. Will these engaging characters survive?

Short stories ranging from sci-fi, humor and horror, based on various body parts.

From imagination to materialism, the provocative stories in Body Parts cover the bases. Can brains survive without bodies? Will the love modem result in romance or homicide? Should a loose tongue reveal its secrets? Would a guru who brings bliss be killed by the government? What's to stop pigs being raised to provide artificial hearts from revolting? Could a rowing machine be used to commit murder? What happens when a fat woman sits on a lap dog and kills it? What's wrong with kidneys from Texas? Can feet lead...

A geologist predicted a major earthquake in an unlikely place (Rhode Island) and it happens.

You are an expert on earthquakes and you fear their awesome power to the point of insanity. Now you are sure that an earthquake is building below your very feet. Your house, your family, your friends, your town, are about to be destroyed.

The cracks appearing in the walls…the "accidental" deaths of local people…the strange movements of inanimate objects - all increase the certainty of your belief and the urgency of your warnings to those around you. The trouble is, there are others who have...

(The sequel to Make Us Happy.) The renegades try to govern but discover they need the computer.

Returning in triumph to New York City to announce their victory, the revolutionaries, Bil and Alce, the very, very old Ralp Nadir and the very, very sexy Dian Toffler, find that no one has noticed the revolution, and no one cares. Everyone just wants to keep on jogging, safe and secure and uninvolved.

Finally, the message of freedom breaks through the nearly fatal apathy of the people, and the painful, stumbling process of reinstituting democracy begins, with Bil as the new President. Then suddenly, it's...

Police Detective Mike Boyle is called to the scene of an apparent double-homicide. As he waits for his partner, Detective Yvonne King, he has difficulty connecting to the circumstances he finds himself in. When Yvonne arrives, he discovers that he is not alone in his uncertainty. But he must press on through the fog of his confusion, in order to solve the most important case of his life.

Why was he in denial? What was it that he couldn't face? Something terrible had happened. He felt terrible.

It's nothing, he reassured himself. Everything's okay.

Still, he felt discombobulated as if...

Beyond Sci-Fi is a collection that includes a novella and several short stories filled with eccentric characters caught in strange circumstances.

"The Ark of Arrogance" is the story of refugees living on an ark as means of survival due to a massive flood on Long Island. Escaping on the ark doesn't provide safety, but instead brings catastrophic results, including mayhem, martial law, looting and murder. Other stories in the collection include jealous tennis rivals and a group of bloggers who all die mysteriously. The characters in each story are unusual, their circumstances unique.

A cure is found for a children's disease but it proved to lower intelligence, starting with the scientists who devised the cure.

"A world lapsing into imbecility…true horror!" - New York Times

You are Dr. James Healey and last week you were a genius. That was before the DNA experiments. Before the accident you said could never happen…

Since then you have felt your mind decaying a little more each day. You have watched your wife slip into imbecility. You have seen the crowds growing murderous with animal terror, the President of the United States babbling and drooling on TV… ...

An Army Corps of Engineers officer discovers a lost, under ice, community in Greenland, intended to be a utopia. He almost surrenders to its secrets.

Col. Joseph Pike was planning for his early retirement from the Army Corps of Engineers. He had the bungalow in the Caribbean picked out, and all that was left was to put in his notice, make the down payment, and pack his bags. Then he was called in for one last assignment.

An Army encampment from the late 1960's, a city built under the ice of a glacier in Greenland, was originally designed to be a one-year experiment, using volunteers to...

Killer bees from Africa attack the US with astonishing results.

MARYVILLE, N.Y. Sept. 26 (AP) - A family of five on an outing in an isolated spot by a stream were attacked by bees here. Mr. and Mrs. William Peterson died as the result of bee bites. Their three children were also attacked, one, Karen, age 12, severely. The local coroner, Dr. David P. Znac, speculated that both adults had allergies to bee bites, which can be fatal. About 30 deaths a year in the U.S. are attributed to bites from bees, wasps and hornets. What caused the bees to attack is not known.

This was the beginning,...

Global warming begins. An unusual method is found to stop it. Will the scheme work?

With uncanny skill, Arthur Herzog, best-selling author of The Swarm and Earthsound has blended fiction and fact into a terrifying and highly plausible story of the near future: a time when tensions mount as ecological doom beckons.

Lawrence Pick, engineer, gathers startling evidence that the world's weather may be rapidly changing, as a prelude to a fundamental alteration in global climate. In a secret underground laboratory, he and a team of equally skilled scientists learn that the level of carbon dioxide in the...

Computer equipped artificial intelligence get control. A group of renegades attempt to foil them.

A thousand years in the future, society is run by computers, with not a gesture or activity unnoticed by their all-seeing detectors. Spacescrapers - three miles high, 1,000 stories, 1,000 people per floor - house 1,000,000 people. The divorce rate having climbed to 100 percent, the computers have made marriage almost illegal but adultery compulsory, with a resultant zero divorce rate.

In this setting, Bil and Alce meet, marry, and, their sense of history whetted by a few old books and photos,...

A handsome CEO attempts to acquire another company whose CEO is a beautiful woman.

A marvelously authentic novel of startling dimension that transforms the headlines of corporate wars and takeovers into the flesh and blood behind-the-scenes manipulations of a conglomerate head who begins a distinctly unfriendly corporate merger with an unwilling female C.E.O.

In the world of "white-knights," arbitrageur middlemen playing both sides against the middle, of self-serving corporate lawyers and carnivorous investment bankers, Steve Berg, armed with the inelegant but accurate rallying slogan...

A celebrity diet doctor gains an alarming amount of weight and kills himself.

IT WAS THE ANSWER TO A MILLION PRAYERS...It was the miracle everyone had waited for: Sovwren - incredibly nutritious, indescribably delicious. Millions of Americans went for it, lived on it, lost weight on it - became the slim, lithe creatures of their most glamorous dreams. They tasted happiness…until an appetite for something more began to stir. Small at first, it grew and became a hunger nothing could satisfy. And then they were swept into the deadly nightmare of obsession - trapped in the ravenous jaws of…

Orca - the killer whale - is one of the most intelligent creatures in the universe. He hunts in packs, like a wolf. Incredibly, he is the only animal other than man who kills for revenge.

He has one mate, and if she is harmed by man, he will hunt down that person with a relentless, terrible vengeance - across seas, across time, across all obstacles.

An inspiration tale of a clumsy giant with a heart even bigger than he is! A warm and funny story of family, friendship and understanding, suitable for all age groups.

1st edition 2012, 28 pages.

Many years ago at one of the first Tannen's Magic Conventions the author attended he met Walter Gibson. He knew many of the great magicians of the 30's and 40's personally including Harry Blackstone Sr. and he had a series of Detective Comic Books. He wrote books about magic and he created the masked crime fighter: The Shadow. D. Angelo Ferri used to listen to The Shadow on the radio when he was a kid. He also watched a lot of early TV shows inspired by those old radio programs, TV shows like Racket Squad, Dragnet, The Untouchables, and The Naked City.

Ferri loves to smoke cigars. One foggy night he was walking through the...

A new century has dawned and for Holmes it signifies that he is soon to retire to Sussex to keep bees. Inspector Lestrade is already retired but looking for work as a store detective when he is informed of events concerning Arthur Prince, The Prince of Ventriloquists, which are so singular that he calls upon Holmes who demonstrates that his deductive powers are still as sharp as ever. Arthur Prince’s stage puppet has been stolen from his locked dressing room only to reappear some hours later. This strange event has now occurred on three different occasions, but stranger still is the fact that...