The third segment of my next mystery novel, as yet untitled, follows. As previously noted, the novel involves a deceased friend, an abandoned apartment, a search for a safety deposit box, and the shame of long forgotten actions. Quinn’s apartment was quite familiar to Purchell, the frequency of his visits there making a close acquaintance with the surroundings unavoidable. It reminded him of his first apartment in the city, a small furnished bachelor on the first floor of an old Victorian house…..
The second segment of my next mystery novel, as yet untitled, follows. As previously noted, the novel involves a deceased friend, an abandoned apartment, a search for a safety deposit box, and the shame of long forgotten actions. Background Recollections He was a collection of contradictions, an aggregation of curious character traits and personality quirks that could excite most students of psychology and depress any psychiatrist with a steady clientale. He was moody and amusing at the same time, a man…..
I have started on my next mystery novel, as yet untitled. It involves a deceased friend, an abandoned apartment, a search for a safety deposit box, and the shame of long forgotten actions. I will post successive segments as my novel progresses. “Musings After the Fact Detective Franklin Neeson was leaning back in his chair behind his desk in the Truscott Police Department pretending to smoke a cigarette. After years of surviving the appeals, if not the demands of most…..
Anyone who grew up, or tried to grown up, in the 1950’s, was inundated with a barrage of well remembered cultural influences. Few know however that many of the mythologies associated with these influences were based on patent falsehoods and brazen lies. Some of them are offered below. (This list first appeared in The Smart Aleck Chronicles II published in 2012.) 1. Davy Crockett’s coonskin hat was actually a dead squirrel. Crockett’s friend, Georgie Russell, also maintained that he wore…..
One of the less laudable contributions to our culture has been, and unfortunately continues to be, the creation of absurd lists. Originally conceived as a means of entertaining audiences grown weary of standard humor, many of them now serve to simply mystify and/or confound. The following list originally appeared in the first or second or maybe even the third volume of the “Smart Aleck Chronicles” by Mike Robertson as published by Authorhouse. FANTASY FACTS ABOUT FAMOUS WRITERS 1. Samuel Beckett…..