Product DescriptionThree strikes...you're dead?A Major League baseball team with a woman as manager? A starting pitcher who can not only throw a baseball with a the best but can throw a whole game to Las Vegas gamblers? A gang of drug smugglers who are attempting to take over the team for their own purposes? Las Vegas Gold is a novel that has all this and more.Molly Malone is the red-haired manager of a group of American League baseball players all carefully chosen from the ranks of free agent and amateur players. Money for salaries is no problem. Mike Malone, Molly’s father and a former star Major League player turned billionaire business man, has obtained a franchise for Las Vegas. He names his daughter, a star and manager in women’s pro baseball as manager, hand-picks Larry Henderson as General Manager and gives them carte blanche to choose the players. He begins building a state of the art roofed stadium and tells Molly and Larry to be ready to play in two years. Molly gets her way with a trade to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Tabby, a pitcher with a great arm and attitude to match.What the team isn't prepared for is the trouble that follows the manager and soon invades their lineup. Previously, the worst any of the players had to deal with was striking out or blowing a catch. Now, they find themselves up to their necks in murder, thrown baseball games, Las Vegas gamblers and drug lords.Combining a murder mystery with America's national pastime, while covering such hot button topics as illegal gambling in the sporting world and the import of illegal drugs, Las Vegas Gold will keep readers of both baseball and mysteries riveted from start to finish.

Product DescriptionIdentical twins can cause all kinds of difficulty when someone is attempting to decide who is who, not only when both are alive but also when one has died. Which one has died? How do you prove it? It gets even worse when somebody is charged with murdering the one who died. Did he kill the one that everyone thought he killed? What if he didn’t murder either one? Sometimes “is” just plain isn’t! See if you can figure out who died and who killed him in this short story by the author of the crime collection NEVER USE A CHICKEN AND OTHER STORIES.

Product DescriptionThey say crime doesn't pay...but it can sure be funny!Join Jim Newell as he takes you through an anthology of criminal caper short stories where the perfect crime goes horribly awry. In this book you'll find everything from pampered cats to fat ladies singing, a woman on the run by way of bus to a woman fleeing it all by plane and go from cigar shoppers to bed hoppers. Just remember to leave your chicken outside (rest assured, the reason why is made clear in this book), and you'll be sure to enjoy these hilarious entries.

Drug smuggling is big business on the east coast of Nova Scotia. Rocky Island is the based-on-facts fictional story of the entire business, from the Caribbean to Canada to the USA.With murder and intrigue among the smugglers and their agents, and the RCMP hunt to find and arrest the criminals, it's only a matter of time before civilians find themselves caught in the middle. Enter Rocky Island lighthouse keeper Toby French and his artist wife Allison. When Allison's father is brutally murdered, the couple soon find their lives turned upside down as they are drawn into the investigation, as well as the war on drugs.From the AuthorRocky Island is a fictitious small island located off the coast of Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada, about 90 miles from where the author grew up. The plot concerns the adventures of a newlt married young couple who are the only inhabitants of the island. He is the lighthouse keeper and she is an artist. All is well until he discovers the wreckage of her father's fishing boat washed up on the shore after a storm. A Search and Rescue team locate her father's body and that of a crewman. As the helicopter stops at the island, the pilot offers to take Allison back to the mainland with the bodies of her father and the crewman and she accepts, but on take-off, the helicopter crashes into the ocean. Toby uses his ever-ready inflatable boat to rescue all on board. A few days later, while Allison is still away, the body of the third crewman washes ashore.The RCMP are called in because foul play is concerned. The police discover that drug smuggling is going on with an aging freighter, posing as a legitimate cargo carrier, is dropping off drugs to smugglers posing as fishermen. Allison's father was caught and murdered by the smugglers when he innocently appears in the midst of a transaction. After the ship runs aground on Rocky Island when it is caught in a fog, the smugglers are finally caught and a double agent among the smugglers is caught and the case is solved.