While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune. Includes illustrations and extended captions providing background information on history, geography, social customs, animals, architecture, literature, and science pertinent to the story.

When Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon a group of murdered men, a stash of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash, he makes a rash decision and takes the money, which soon puts himself and his young wife in danger as they are hunted by a ruthless drug lord.

Indepent, spirited Imogen Waterstone, an expert on ancient Zamar, invites the infamous Earl of Colchester Matthais Marshall, legendary explorer of Zamar to help her lay the perfect trap. Certain that her enemy will risk everything to acquire the treasure map she claims to have inherited, Imogen faces danger from her foe, and from her own emotions as she is drawn to the dark, seductive earl.

A fearless Spanish crew embarks on a search for a lost ship, swallowed by the Indian Ocean centuries ago, in a novel by "a master of the literary thriller" (Booklist, starred review). Manuel Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime auction in Barcelona, he meets Tánger Soto, a captivating beauty who works for the Naval Museum in Madrid. A woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a famed Jesuit...

When a goofy assortment of motorists unexpectedly learn the whereabouts of a stolen fortune, they speed off on a side-splitting, car-bashing race for the loot.