Murder Times Two: Two Novellas (Thomas Martindale Mystery Series, Band 10) - Softcover

Lovell, Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976797895 ISBN 13: 9780976797890

Verlag: PENHAM PROD, 2014

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In his years as a decidedly amateur detective, Thomas Martindale has called on various professionals to get him out of the dangerous situations he often finds himself in. Only a fool would do the things he has done but his friends have saved him time and again. Two of these consummate professionals return in two novellas, Paul Bickford, the mysterious Army Special Ops officer, and Lorenzo Madrid, his longtime friend and attorney. In Carnival, the college professor/amateur sleuth is confronted by shady carnies and a murderous clown wearing a devil's mask when a traveling road show comes to town. How hard should it be to help his old love Maxine March complete a photo assignment at the carnival? Fairly difficult when a crazed killer follows her to Oregon from her last job in Ecuador and only Bickford can help her. In Innocent, Lorenzo is facing a crisis in his life. The long years of helping Mexican migrants deal with their lives in the U.S.-usually without pay--have taken their toll. He is burned out and ready to do something different. When guilt drives him to handle one last case-clearing the name of a young man falsely accused of murder--Lorenzo is drawn into a web of crooked priests and ruthless drug lords. Before he can discover the truth, he is kidnapped by a Mexican drug gang.

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Ron Lovell was a journalism professor at Oregon State University for 24 years. Before that he was a magazine writer with Business Week in Denver, Medical World News in New York and the McGraw-Hill News Service in Los Angeles and Houston. He is the author of 14 textbooks on journalism and hundreds of articles. He now writes mystery novels about Thomas Martindale, a college professor who solves crimes on the side. The books take place either on the Oregon Coast or on a campus that strongly resembles OSU. Titles in the series: Murder at Yaquina Head, Dead Whales Tell No Tales, Lights, Camera, Murder, Murder Below Zero, Searching for Murder, Descent Into Madness, Yaquina White, Murder in E-flat Major, Murder in the Steens, and Murder Times Two.Last year, he began publishing a new series, the Lorenzo Madrid Mysteries, about a Mexican attorney who specializes in immigration law in Oregon. The first book, Danger in Unlikely Places, features Lorenzo Madrid. In it, he escapes a murderous drug gang by moving to Los Angeles to teach at the UCLA Law School. The latest book, A Dangerous Assignment, starts in Hollywood and ends in an abandoned insane asylum on the Oregon Coast, where a sleazy producer talks him into producing a low budget movie. There he has to cope with a temperamental movie queen, her drunken stuntman husband, a self-styled local militia, and a murder. More than he bargained for and a truly dangerous assignment. I can t imagine living in the world without the ability to write and to read, he says. I can t remember when or how I learned to read but that, and a compulsion to write, have propelled me through life. The teacher in me wants to help others learn to read. When they do, their lives will be so much richer and more meaningful. He lives in Gleneden Beach, Oregon.

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• Verlag: PENHAM PROD
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0976797895
• ISBN 13: 9780976797890
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 222
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