These four novellas are written to please and stimulate the reader who loves murder mysteries. The daughter of a very small town Chief of Police is home after graduation from a major university. Her university degree is in criminology. She begins her career as a police officer to learn the ropes.The first case has a pretty woman murdered by a golf club. She's found by a foursome of women at a tournament. Stacy is called in to investigate the murder. Her first meeting with the State ...

I am offering the reader two for one murder mysteries. In the first novel, a twenty plus year New York City homicide lieutenant retires to the coast of Oregon. All set in his drafty beach cottage, his short retirement is halted by a lovely detective from the local Sheriffs Department of Lincoln County. She asks for his help solving a rather brutal murder and violation of a young woman confined to a wheel chair. It's determined the murder was committed by more than one person. Norm Payne, w...

In the first case Marshall Foreham is introduced to a rather gruesome kidnap/murder of a young college girl. Her father is a high profile city manager who decides to give the kidnapper the ransom without notifying the authorities. The victim is savagely killed. Suspects are many and varied.Her next case involves a hated retired bank manager of a small town who, on a senior outing, is shot between the eyes on the coast of Oregon. A grocery list of suspects is methodically sorted out ...

Murder at the Peanut Plantation baffles the investigators because the victim, at a holiday party, suddenly collapses in the middle of the room with guests listening to him speak. Clearly one of the guests killed the victim, but 'who' will give Marshall Stacy Foreham and her team serious deductive work. Next, on a long bridge in Newport, Oregon a water delivery vehicle is sitting abandoned in the middle. It appears that a suicide is evident. However, upon investigation it was murder. Stacy ...

This short story is about more than just a haunted house. Those who enter are forever changed and who knows whether the change is good or bad. You choose.

This is a murder mystery that will delight the reader along with intrigue stoking the imagination. A club of murdering misfits baffles the detectives. The leader is a discharged psycho from the mental hospital of the Army. He vows to murder all the popular girls from his former high school. He nearly succeeds.The club is made up of former high school nerds. Their club is bent on killing all the cheerleaders during their last year of high school. Each member chooses the one he fell ...

In part two of 'A Campers Dream' we find Harry Watersfield still living but his wife, Virginia has passed on. We begin when Virginia wakes up on a distant planet but unable to use any senses. She hears a voice in her head somewhat familiar from when they encountered alien beings on Mt. Rainier. She's soon installed in a robot body and functions quite similar to humans. Harry comes next and the story unfolds of truth or fiction, altruism or greed.

This is a science fiction short story that deals with racial discrimination in the present and near future. A sign from God occurs and both the religious community and governments seek answers to a phenomenon that is hard to imagine.

While on a short vacation, staying with her father, in Bandon, Oregon, US Marshall Stacy Foreham is called to the scene of a murder. Chief of Police Lance Eagle Feather is found with a hunting knife in his heart at the police station. Also to complicate matters, he's been scalped!Stacy's father, the former Chief of Police Ray Foreham is faced with having to once again; take over the temporary job as Chief. He's not happy at all. Lance Eagle Feather had been chosen by Stacy's boss ba...

In the first story, Stacy Foreham is faced with a murder of a shift manager in a cheese factory. He's found dead and cooked in a cheese vat. The entire night shifts are suspects. The second finds Norm Payne investigating two mob like murders on the coast. The third story is a bizarre case of a victim found spread-eagle on a large target at an archery club full of arrows. Number four is a homeless man found poisoned at the bus station.

"Man's Folly" is a collection of eight short stories. The stories are surrounded by life and place involving the trials and tribulations facing us. All the stories have an upside and a downside that we're familiar with. Enjoy the stories.

A bored, disgraced ex senator decides to clear his name by writing an autobiography. His fellow cronies take issue with his publication. Is it murder or suicide? Marshall Stacy Foreham has to sort through the political tangles to discover the truth. Secondly, we have a murder of a university professor who has received tenure under questionable circumstances. The suspects are many including his live-in partner. The third story is a short novel involving a psychopathic murderer who has his o...