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Once you've purchased an Amazon Kindle e-book reader, the wonderful world of public domain, Creative Commons and free e-book promotions opens up to you. This regular Kindle Reader feature points you to a few of the most interesting new free (or very cheap) e-books available for download from the web.

E-book selections for this week include a thriller, a satire written in 1907 and eerily topical today, a collection of true detective stories, science fiction by Robert Sheckley and Noel Miller Loomis, speculative "webfiction" and - for chess buffs - a classic by world chess champion J. R. Capablanca.

The Abigail Affair, by Timothy Frost. Print length: 420 p. THRILLER. Download site: Amazon. Format: Kindle (.azw). Price: $.0.99.

"Toby Robinson is 22 and broke. He lands a job as junior steward on a Russian billionaire's yacht in the Caribbean, and feels his luck is about to change. It is, but not in the way Toby hoped. On his first night aboard he is framed for a brutal murder. His attractive crewmate Julia seems to be the only one his side. But can he trust her? With his mobile phone confiscated, armed only with a winning smile and a flair for mixing cocktails, can Toby clear his name, stay alive - and foil the sinister international conspiracy that threatens to entangle him?" - Amazon.

Alice in Blunderland, by John Kendrick Bangs. SATIRE. Download site: MobileRead. Format: Kindle (.mobi). Price: Free.
Excerpt: “Yes,” said the Hatter. “The March Hare and the White Knight and I. We’ve started a city... Everything in town belongs to the People - streetcars, gutters, pavements, theatres, electric light, cabs, manicures, dogs, cats, canary birds, hotels, barber shops, candy stores, hats, umbrellas, bakeries, cakeries, steakeries, shops - you can’t think of a thing that the city don’t own. No more private ownership of anything from a toothbrush to a yacht, and the result is we are all happy.”
“It sounds fine,” said Alice. “Though I think I should rather own my own toothbrush.”
“You naturally would, under the old system,” assented the Hatter. “Under a system of private ownership, owning your own teeth, you’d prefer to own your own toothbrush, but our Council has just passed a law making teeth public property. You see we found that some people had teeth and other people hadn’t, which is hardly a fair condition under a Republican form of Government. It gave one class of citizens a distinct advantage over other people and the Declaration of Independ­ence demands absolute equality for all. One man owning his own teeth could eat all the hickory nuts he wanted just because he had teeth to crack ’em with, while another man not having teeth had either to swallow ’em whole, which ruined his digestion, or go without, which wasn’t fair.”
“I see,” said Alice.

True Detective Stories from the Archives of the Pinkertons, by Cleveland Moffett. New York, G. W. Dillingham Co., 1897. MYSTERY/DETECTIVE. Download site: ManyBooks. Format: Kindle (.azw). Price: Free.
Recounts the Northampton Bank Robbery, the Susquehanna Express Robbery, the Pollock Diamond Robbery, the Rock Island Express, the Destruction of the Renos and the American Exchange Bank Robbery.

Nine Men in Time, by Noel Miller Loomis. SCIENCE FICTION/SHORT STORY. Download site: ManyBooks. Format: Kindle (.azw). Price: Free. First published in 1953 in Science Fiction Stories magazine.
"The idea of sending a man back in time to re-do a job he's botched, so that a deadline can still be met - added to the thought of duplicating a man so there'll be two doing the same work at the same time - adds up to a production-manager's dream. But any dream can suddenly shift into a nightmare..." - ManyBooks.

Ask a Foolish Question, by Robert Sheckley. SCIENCE FICTION/SHORT STORY. Download site: ManyBooks. Format: Kindle (.azw). Price: Free. First published in 1953 in Science Fiction Stories magazine.
"It's well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you'll get, but the type of answer possible. So ... a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations." - ManyBooks.

Other Sides: 12 Webfiction Tales, by Ergofiction. SHORT STORIES/SPECULATIVE FICTION. Download site: Feedbooks. Format: Kindle. Price: Free.
"The advent of digital publishing has seen the rise of a new breed of writers: independent, experimental and unfettered by convention. This brand new anthology features a small sampling of these very writers, in a speculative fiction collection that will capture the imagination and dazzle the senses. The storytelling genius in this collection is most evidenced by its memorable characters: a young woman haunted by her ex-boyfriend’s sweater, time travelers with a suspicious interest in babies, a gender-changing alien desperate to heal a loved one… In these stories, fourteen independent authors display the imagination, insight and wonderful originality that characterizes the unique world of online fiction." - Feedbooks.

Chess Fundamentals, by José Raúl Capablanca. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, c1921. NONFICTION. Download site: Project Gutenberg. Format: Kindle. Price: Free.
One of the few books written by the great Cuban chess champion, Chess Fundamentals - despite the title - is not for beginning chess players but is rather a semi-introductory book designed for those serious about improving their chess game. It has been called "one of the jewels of chess literature".  Project Gutenberg offers both illustrated (with chessboard diagrams) and non-illustrated Kindle editions.