Academy Author Index
Last Updated: 7/12/2023
A mixed bag of tourists, travelers, feckless itinerants, and idle wasters visit an English village for a variety of reasons: believe the motivations or origins of any of them at your peril!
Ghosts At Rotham's Inn [Academy Halloween 2022]
An author in search of peace and quiet instead encounters a number of disquieting disturbances to his personal harmony.
Xena and Gabrielle return to Athens after a long absence only to find their wish to relax hindered by a myriad of requests for assistance awaiting them from every quarter of the city.
It's in the Attic - A Halloween Tale [Academy Halloween 2014]
The Haunted Ship [Academy Halloween 2020]
Xena and Gabrielle investigate rumours of a haunted pentekonter in the Greek Navy fleet at Thessalonika.
Gabrielle leads Xena a merry dance through the largest Sports and Pleasure complex in the known world – The Baths of Trajan in Rome. Beware - there are multiple scenes of full nudity of both sexes throughout this story, though nothing unsavoury and all done in the best possible taste.
The Ticking Clock [Academy Halloween 2016]
Miss Emily Jenkins takes a holiday from her duties as an assistant behind a shop counter in Tarron Bay, Devon, and goes on a day-trip eventually encompassing further reaches of Fantasy, including several earlier incarnations of herself, than she had ever imagined possible, or indeed could afterwards recall.
A delicate little piece for Christmas.
Xena and Gabrielle go about their daily activities in Athens though with contrasting outlooks on a variety of topics great and small.
The Palgrave's End Affair [Academy Halloween 2022]
Periwinkle ‘Peri’ MacIntyre and her lover Maude Clarke are investigators of the Supernatural in 1880’s England.
Round A Campfire At Night [Academy Halloween 2020]
Henrietta 'Harry' Knappe and Sally 'Snapshot' Nichols, lovers and Deputies in 1870's Red Flume, Arizona Territory, USA, tell tales one night, with friends, while hunting rustlers.
The Seven Stars Massacre [Academy Halloween 2022]
Two police officers investigate a wholesale slaughter at a country house on the south coast of Cornwall, in 1903.
This is a story featuring Janice Covington and Melinda Pappas, who take an Atlantic voyage in 1940 to the Bahamas on War business and are torpedoed. Escaping, they are hunted by a U-Boat. They meet the famous racing speedboat owner Betty Carstairs.
Several passengers onboard a Douglas DC7C in 1958, overflying a certain part of Greece, become embroiled in a curious and terrifying incident.
Xena Exploit Series
A classic ‘Xena, Warrior Princess’ story. Our happy duo are involved in all sorts of adventures in the streets and shops of Athens.
Xena and Gabrielle have to reach and infiltrate a heavily guarded island fortress to rescue a prisoner, while circumstances seem to be stacked heavily against them.
Xena and Gabrielle chase a fugitive through the streets and buildings of Athens.
Gabrielle on the Chalcis Ferry
Gabrielle crosses the turbulent Euripus Strait separating the island of Euboea, and its city of Chalcis, from the Greek mainland. On the short voyage she becomes acquainted with the other passengers. Xena and Gabrielle chase a renegade Amazon through the depths of a northern Greek forest. Many dangers are encountered on the way, and eventually Xena finds herself making a pact with the Amazon. This story is as much about the forest, as the three women.
(4th of the Xena Exploits-Series) Xena and Gabrielle, with help from some Viking friends, seek out and fight a legendary sea monster off the coast of Norway.
(5th of the Xena Exploits -Series) Xena and Gabrielle are travelling on a bireme and discover a lost ship out at sea; a very particular vessel of its kind, very famous today . You've always wondered what happened to it? Wonder no more Xena and Gabrielle were there!
Xena and Gabrielle chase a renegade Amazon through the depths of a northern Greek forest. Many dangers are encountered on the way, and eventually Xena finds herself making a pact with the Amazon. This story is as much about the forest, as the three women.
Gabrielle feels like a wash and brush-up, big-time, in the gigantic Baths of Trajan, Rome; so Xena tags along as security.
An innocently meant erotic fantasy, not too extreme, on a Theme of Xena and Gabrielle. They being invited to attend a Roman Proconsul's evening banquet in his Athenian villa, where a newly morally outgoing Gabrielle intends giving her first public wholly uninhibited dance performance, Xena willing.
Dragon in the Mist [Academy Halloween 2021]
‘Dragon in the Mist’ is a classic ‘Xena’ tale – Gabrielle meets one of the many Demons which inhabit Japa’s Upper Air; a Lamia-Dragon dwelling on the misty slopes of Mt. Fuji. Xena, on the other hand, is enveloped elsewhere in Japa’s famous social etiquette.
A classic ‘Xena, Warrior Princess’ story. The Norse Goddess Freya seeks the help of Xena and Gabrielle in recovering her stolen magical necklace ‘Brisingamen’.
Drever and Cartwright Series
Fiona 'Fay' Cartwright & Alice 'Al' Drever are private detectives in an American city. On the eve of Halloween they find themselves in a very tight spot indeed. This story features- Terror, Fright, Close Escapes, Fearful Monsters, and enough freely-flowing gore to satiate the most jaded.
Fiona 'Fay' Cartwright & Alice 'Al' Drever are private detectives in an American city. They become involved in a particularly complex case which stretches their capabilities to the limit.
A large luxury liner docks in the harbour, with a mystery on board which they are tasked with solving.
Fiona 'Fay' Cartwright & Alice 'Al' Drever are private detectives in an East Coast American city. The ladies are called in when a woman is found dead on a local urban train.
The Charioteer Insurance Co. Incident
Fiona 'Fay' Cartwright & Alice 'Al' Drever are private detectives in an East Coast American city, in the 1930's. The ladies are asked to investigate when a series of curiously similar and expensive claims are made, under suspicious circumstances, to an Insurance Company.
The Grand Banks Hotel Incident
The ladies are asked to provide security at a swish hotel, on the occasion of a group of VIP's residing there.
The ladies become involved in a curious apparent disappearance from a very public location.
The Mystery of Catcraigs House
An unexpectedly frightening holiday in a country house on the Orkney Mainland..
Fiona 'Fay' Cartwright & Alice 'Al' Drever are private detectives in an East Coast American city, in the 1930's. They are requested to find a stolen oil painting of high value.
Fiona 'Fay' Cartwright & Alice 'Al' Drever are private detectives in an East Coast American city, in the 1930's. They are cross-examined as witnesses in a big criminal trial.
Fiona 'Fay' Cartwright & Alice 'Al' Drever are asked to investigate a case of business theft at an international fashion house.
The Lost Christmas Present Incident
Fiona 'Fay' Cartwright & Alice 'Al' Drever are asked to investigate an example of maritime piracy.
The Meiklewood Legatees Incident
Fiona 'Fay' Cartwright & Alice 'Al' Drever are private detectives in an East Coast American city, in the 1930's. They investigate several crimes associated with the Will of a late businessman.
This is the 14th story in the ' Drever and Cartwright ' series. Fiona 'Fay' Cartwright & Alice 'Al' Drever are private detectives in an East Coast American city, in the 1930's. They become involved in the making of a film in studios outside the city.
The Cellini Salt Cellar Incident
This is the 15th story in the ' Drever and Cartwright ' series. Fiona 'Fay' Cartwright & Alice 'Al' Drever are private detectives in an East Coast American city, in the 1930's. They guard a rich woman's art collection while on public exhibition.
Fiona 'Fay' Cartwright & Alice 'Al' Drever are private detectives in an East Coast American city, in the 1930's. They sail to the land of olden-time pirates, only to find modern pirates.
The P. I.'s Convention Incident
Fiona 'Fay' Cartwright & Alice 'Al' Drever are private detectives in an East Coast American city, in the 1930's. They find themselves affected in a personal way by their latest case.
Fiona 'Fay' Cartwright & Alice 'Al' Drever are private detectives in an East Coast American city, in the 1930's. They find themselves affected in a personal way by their latest case.
Mathews & Parker Series
This is an Uberfic set in 1942. Zena Mathews, a young New Zealand woman working as a pilot in the Britiah Air Transport Auxiliary, is given a dangerous mission over enemy-occupied Europe accompanied by her new navigator, Gabrielle Parker.
This is an Uberfic set in Great Britain in 1942. Zena Mathews, a young New Zealand woman, and her navigator Gabrielle Parker work as pilots in the British Air Transport Auxiliary. They are taken on as members of a secret Government organisation, part of SOE-Special Operations Executive, operating beyond the Civil Service radar where no records are kept.
This is an Uberfic set in Great Britain in 1942. Zena Mathews, a young New Zealand woman, and her co-pilot & navigator Gabrielle Parker now work as pilots for a secret British Government organisation, part of SOE--Special Operations Executive. They fly on a mission involving fishing-boats, secret meetings out in the North Sea, spies, gun-running, and difficulties in piloting their Supermarine Walrus.
This is an Uberfiction set in Great Britain in 1942. Zena Mathews, a young New Zealand woman, and her navigator Gabrielle Parker work as pilots for a Department of SOE--Special Operations Executive, where all activity is top secret. On a flying mission in their Supermarine Walrus they meet an enemy aircraft.
This is an Uberfic set in Great Britain in 1943. Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker, both pilots and members of SOE-Special Operations Executive, find themselves transporting a Colonel Warden from the North Atlantic to Southern England.
This is an Uberfiction set in Britain in 1943. Zena Mathews & Gabrielle Parker spend a boring Sunday at Scapa Flow.
Zena Mathews & Gabrielle Parker explore a number of Neolithic sites on the Orkney Mainland, and have a strange experience.
Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker are requisitioned into going on a submarine patrol, complete with depth charges.
Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker are both pilots and members of SOE--Special Operations Executive. They are on blackout detail on the Orkney Mainland, going round the outlying houses and farms. Then they sit in a deserted farmhouse for a short time one night, reflecting on life. After which they attend a large entertainment party for the troops.
Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker, both pilots and members of SOE--Special Operations Executive, are on a mission to transport a mysterious object from the North Atlantic to Southern England. On the way they hit various problems and dangers.
Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker, both pilots and members of SOE-Special Operations Executive-are stationed at Scapa Flow. They decide to investigate the chakram they found and go to a nearby Neolithic site, where Gabrielle has another meeting with two women warriors from the past.
Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker, both pilots and members of SOE-Special Operations Executive-are stationed at Scapa Flow. They become unwilling participants in a media publicity campaign for the Air Transport Auxiliary, and are reluctantly interviewed by a reporter and photographer.
(This is the 13th Story of the 'Mathews & Parker' series) Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker, members of SOE-Special Operations Executive-based in Scapa Flow in 1943, accompany a British cruiser on a daring naval raid on the coast of Norway.
Flying Officers Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker-members of SOE, Special Operations Executive,-are ordered to participate in an attempt to kidnap a high-ranking Nazi leader.
The flying officers find themselves facing-off against the dubious agents of another secret British Government Department.
Flying Officer Gabrielle Parker-member of SOE, Special Operations Executive,- finds herself doing a tour of the Northern Atlantic.
Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker, members of SOE -- Special Operations Executive, are tasked with investigating a curious incident involving an outlying Balloon unit in the Orkney Islands.
Flying Officers Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker-members of SOE, Special Operations Executive take a sea voyage in order to sink a U-boat.
Flying Officers Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker-members of SOE, Special Operations Executive,-are given the task of photographing an important enemy position.
Flying Officers Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker-members of SOE, Special Operations Executive,-find themselves transporting important passengers to a sensitive destination.
S for Sara: Missing, Presumed Lost
Flying Officers Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker-members of SOE, Special Operations Executive,-find themselves in a sticky situation while flying a Stirling bomber.
Flying Officers Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker-members of SOE, Special Operations Executive,-search Orkney Mainland for the missing pilot of a crashed Messerschmitt Bf 109.
Flying Officers Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker-members of SOE, Special Operations Executive,-become heavy-duty truckers across Orkney Mainland, in hot pursuit of several British military secret weapons.
Flying Officers Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker-members of SOE, Special Operations Executive,-are made aware of dark movements and ominous plans in the ongoing British War effort.
Flying Officers Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker-members of SOE, Special Operations Executive,-make a series of bombing runs over France and Germany.
Flying Officers Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker-members of SOE, Special Operations Executive,-are given an undercover task in a distant corner of Germany, which results in a cameo appearance by Xena, Warrior Princess and Gabrielle, Amazon Queen.
Flying Officers Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker-members of SOE, Special Operations Executive,-take a Walrus to find a Mosquito.
Flying Officers Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker-members of SOE,Special Operations Executive,-are tasked with shooting down or capturing a German air ace.
Flying Officers Zena Mathews and Gabrielle Parker-members of SOE; Xena and Gabrielle are unexpectedly thrown far ahead of their Ancient Greek origins into the distant future, Britain 1944, where they find war has taken on dimensions undreamed of by them in their worst nightmares.
Red Neck Series
The Tiger that Stalked Red Reck
in the 1870's Arizona desert town of Red Neck a tiger roams free. Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane go on the hunt for it, in the course of which they cause themselves as much bother as the wild animal might.
A Card Game: A Tale of Red Neck, Arizona
Henrietta 'Harry' Knappe and Calamity Jane save Wild Bill Hickock's life while visiting Red Neck, Arizona; then immediately get on his wrong side.
(This is the 3rd story in the 'Red Neck' series.) Henrietta 'Harry' Knappe and Calamity Jane perform several kind acts at the festive season.
The Wraiths in the Woods [Academy Halloween 2021]
‘The Wraiths in the Woods’ is a modern day tale of spooky adventures in New Hampshire, USA. - Connie Earlston comes to the quiet backwater of Potidaea, New Hampshire, USA, to write her latest bestseller. She meets Lys Barclay, owner of a small restaurant on the outskirts of the village, and together they investigate a strange occurrence presently affecting the local community.