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AMIGOS is a farcical, often satirical, novel that pokes and pulls at American culture in particular and world culture in general. Hump Ureaker and his crippled, mute partner Josh Randall head south to rescue the brothers Smith and Jones not without the odd bit of misadventure, muddle, and misfortune. Both detective story and saga, sometimes slapstick then again droll, often bawdy, the tale acknowledges the persistence and ingenuity of the conquistadors and inquisitors of the planet. If the meek are to inherit the earth, they had best get a move on.

Can Professor Moriarty blackmail Sherlock Holmes? He has evidence that the examination of a cosmic string by StarTrek’s Mr. Spock went horribly awry, and stranded him in Victorian England. In his new home, a surprise onset of Pon Farr leads to an encounter with a Wold Newton descendant - Violet Rutherford, a progressive English adventuress with eclectic interests and friends. Their relationship stretches the Prime Directive to the breaking point and leads to the birth of both Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. It could explain so much. Logic in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

(Book 3 in the Magic in Paradise series) Following the relaunch of their hit Hawaiian show, Mai Tai’s and Magic, magician Jacques L’Astaire and his wife visit their friends Geoffrey and Grace Morrison for the holidays in London. While there, Geoffrey, an agent with Interpol, enlists Jacques’ aid with a case he is working on. Upon Jacques and Chanelle’s return home to Las Vegas, Geoffrey wants Jacques to go undercover to help catch an art theft and smuggling ring. Jacques enters a world of deception, half-truths and sexual intrigue as he practices the Art of Illusion.

A virus starts spreading slowly in a small oriental province, but rapidly accelerates into a pandemic more insidious than the black plague. Officially, blame falls upon a lowly Chinese fishmonger and the local custom of selling live fish and other animals including bats in open-air wet markets. One man knows the truth, but his attempt to bring it to light plunges him into the dark world of international politics and covert government activities. Fearing for his life, he engages the services of team π to irrefutably expose the real cause, and at the same time keep them all alive.

Jerry Anders has investigated many murders, but none so far reaching as two he drew weeks before Christmas in the east coast city of Virginia Beach. A convicted police officer killer was shot with a bullet normally issued to FBI snipers. Someone is eliminating criminals who kill cops, and Anders' cases lead him to uncovering an organized effort spawned from within FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Roger struggled like most private investigators to make a living, then Cathy walked into his office. She was rich, beautiful, and needed him desperately….a dream come true he thought. Deception and lies dominate this story to the point he found himself headed at gravity speed for the sidewalk thirty-two floors below his office. He didn’t have long to tell his side of things, so please excuse the lack of flowery detail…

Magic in Paradise Las Vegas Stage magician Jacques L’Astaire discovers that someone has stolen his showstopper illusion and is presenting it at a new magic themed resort in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, called Magic in Paradise. He, his wife and stage assistant Chanelle, and their best friend Grace, head to St. Thomas to investigate why the illusion has been stolen and who is responsible. Once at the resort, they begin to realize that the betrayal lies close to home, and the new technology Jacques discovered when creating his illusion is attracting darker attention than they ever could have imagined.

An elderly judge surprises his friends by suddenly moving to Chicago to "escape his future." What greets him is a horrible event that immediately thrusts him back to his days in Nuremberg where he was a Chief Prosecutor in 1947.

(Book 2 in the Magic in Paradise Series) While investigating who was stealing his illusions, stage magician Jacques L’Astaire discovered his ex-wife Pearl Katsumoto and her crime syndicate family were running illegal activities out of a resort in St. Thomas. He ultimately was integral in her arrest and criminal conviction. Moving on with their lives, Jacques and his wife Chanelle book their show at a theater in Honolulu. They invite friend Grace Ryan to come visit them in Hawaii. At dinner one evening, the hostess brings a package over. Jacques opens it to reveal a black velvet jewelry box. Inside the small box, he finds one perfect pearl. They know it could mean only one thing ...