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The year is 1875. Katie MacDonald lives with her father on the rim of a volcano so remote she has only met three people in her life. She longs to take the week-long supply trip to Badwater (pop., 250) so she can see, maybe even meet, other people. Eventually, she makes the trip, and the story kicks off, both for good and for bad.

Before it ends, four people are dead. None accidentally.

Dave Henderson will be remembered for many things, most of them on the fringes of legality, morality, and good taste. How else can you describe Dave's and Marge's decision, after Marge's father kicked the bucket, to add 34 feet to the 163-foot yacht being built for them in Kobe, Japan?

The Nelsons, newly arrived to California from Manhattan, enter the perilous world of vending machines. Taking care of gum and candy machines scattered throughout Sonoma and Napa Counties was supposed to be a part-time job-to provide cash while Jim freelanced. However...

The world was awash in guides to expensive wines, but no one was evaluating the wines people actually drank. Great Cheap Wines rated 650 wines, imported and domestic, that didn't break the bank. It also introduced the Nelson 14-point Judging System, good for evaluating wines of all kinds.

Time marches on, new wines appear, and a follow-up to Great Cheap Wines is needed. This book brings the reader up to date on the rapidly changing nature of the wine world, along with current evaluations of 730 inexpensive wines from all over the world.