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Max Moran reluctantly attends a Halloween party at the Congressional Hotel. When he has too much to drink - which is only a couple of glasses of champagne for Max - he goes off to the hotel library, where he promptly falls asleep. He is awakened by a woman dressed as a gypsy who insists on telling his fortune. She catches his undivided attention when she tells him that his lifeline may be about to run out. She also warns him that a mysterious man will soon come into his life, and he should be particularly respectful of this individual. When just such a strange man shows up that night but ...

Madison Revere is a lawyer in her late twenties who works for a small law firm along the New Jersey shore. In When the Dog Bites she is dealing with a difficult boss, a challenging mother, a possible new boyfriend, and someone who is out to get her. She faces all these difficulties while trying to get promoted to associate in her law firm. In When the Rope Breaks, she must discover how a client died while climbing in the Alps with only his wife for a companion. Was it an accident? Was it murder? And if it was murder, who was involved and why? Finally, in When Push Comes to Shove, Madison is...

When seventeen-year-old Abigail Taylor turns down the proposal of her suitor, Tom Dawkins, her family feels that she must go out and make her own way in the world. So a position as a servant is secured for her in the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Dearest David is the story of the few months in the year 1841 during which Abigail experiences life in the Emerson household at the peak of both its intellectual and emotional intensity. She falls in love with the free spirited but emotionally cool Henry David Thoreau. She discovers the power of the prophetic and frightening Lidian Emerson. She ...

When the body of journalism professor Joseph Teller is found outside his office building on the Minton State University campus, questions are raised as to whether he fell accidentally or committed suicide. Both seem plausible since the open window in his office sits very low, and he lost his wife to cancer a little over a year ago. Kate Cameron, a retired police officer and current real estate broker, gets involved when her boyfriend, editor of the local paper and former student of Teller, asks her to investigate the death in order to make certain the truth is revealed.

Charles Bentley, semi-retired professor of English at prestigious Opal College in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, is confronted in his office one day by Sebastian Locke, a survivalist living in upstate Vermont who is on campus to give a speech. Locke is concerned because his daughter’s history professor approached her in an inappropriate way. Bentley has the daughter in class, so Locke has come to him for information on this professor. Charles gives him some advice, and they also have an intense discussion about Thoreau. Charles decides to attend Locke’s presentation that afternoon, ...

When Charles Bentley, retired English professor and sometime amateur sleuth, marries the chief of police in the Town of Opalsville in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, he expects to support her in sickness and in health. However, he does not anticipate having to discover who killed one of her officers, but this turns out to be the case, despite the fact that Charles is in the midst of a career change to becoming a mystery novelist. As usual, Charles is surrounded by strong, attractive, and somewhat frightening women who offer suggestions on how he should behave. Not deterred by criticism or ...

These are the next three stories in the adventures of Charles Bentley, a retired professor of English at Opal College in Opalsville, Massachusetts. In them, Bentley deals with the problems of getting older, confronting his past, and solving murders. In A Longing for Danger, he attempts to help a woman he once loved, only to face unexpected consequences. In Murder Offstage, he finds himself acting in a play for the first time since he was an undergraduate, when the original actor is murdered. In The Past Never Dies, Charles must confront his experience in Vietnam, which threatens to cost him...

Max Moran, a failed actor and manager of the Fireside Inn on the New Jersey shore, finds a murdered man in one of his rooms. The victim turns out to be Dmitri Novikov, who is directing Max in a community theater production of Surprise! You're Dead. Police chief Philpot, who strongly dislikes Max, is trying to find evidence to charge him with the murder, causing Max to feel that he must solve the case himself to avoid arrest. When a second murder happens in the sleepy town of Lighthouse Point, Max believes that the two murders may be connected, and to find out who caused the death of the ...

Twenty-seven-year-old Clarissa Abbot is a minister who has just gotten her first full-time position as pastor at Shore Side Community Church in Shore Side, New Jersey. A member of her congregation dies in the hospital under suspicious circumstances before he can pass along information about a mysterious event in the past. Feeling guilty because she couldn't convince the man to confide in her before his death, Clarissa begins an investigation to find out his secret. This soon leads back to an unsolved murder that took place in Shore Side over fifty years ago. In addition to this, a shady ...

When one of the guests at the Fireside Inn is murdered, Max becomes a person of interest because the dead guest had complaints about the inn and was threatening to go public. The police also have discovered that the victim was killed by a left-handed assailant,and they think Max is probably the killer because he is starring in a play entitled The Left-Handed Man. Even though Max tries to convince them that he is actually strongly right-handed, the police chief is determined to prove Max to be guilty, and the only way he can save himself is by discovering who is the real Left-handed Man.

When Jerome Kronberg, who is facing prosecution for investment fraud, dies in a fall from a mountain in Connecticut, there are some people who believe it was no accident. Some think it was suicide; some suspect he was killed by an irate client. Others suspect a more supernatural cause. According to the legend of The Black Dog, if you see the dog three times on the mountain, you die, and Kronberg had seen the dog twice when he took his last hike.It is The Black Dog that motivates Marcie Ducasse to investigate the death for her Weird Happenings Column in Roaming New England Magazine. While ...

Charles Bentley, retired professor of English at Opal College in Opalsville, Massachusetts, and recently published mystery writer, travels to Royston College in New Hampshire to help a woman he loved over forty years ago. Although she abruptly broke up with him at the time, he still feels obligated to her. She is now Royston's president but is accused of improperly attempting to influence a tenure committee, a charge which could force her from office. She requests that Charles represent her at the hearing, and he somewhat reluctantly agrees to do so. Charles soon discovers that fulfilling ...

Charles Bentley, retired professor of English at Opal College, has taken up meditation, but he finds his concentration shattered when violence enters the meditation center. At the same time, an acquaintance who is a college counselor is viciously attacked in front of his own home, and Charles is enlisted to find out why. He soon finds that the only way to discover answers is to become the bait for a potential killer.

Do you really know your husband? After ten years of marriage Sarah McAdams thinks she does. That's why she's so surprised when her husband Jonathan, who has devoted most of that time to trying to write the great American literary novel, willing decides to take over the Duke Danforth thriller series when its creator, Harrison Cole, suddenly dies. Since Sarah has been supporting her husband emotionally and financially all of that time, she can understand why he might wish to have the independence that success can bring, but she is uncertain whether it is good for either their marriage or his ...

Max Moran, who looks like a hot Superman but has the personality of Clark Kent, is in a musical at The Lighthouse Point Community Theater called Song of the Sagebrush, about a Jersey boy who goes to work on a dude ranch and discovers what it means to be a man. One night when Max and his co-star, Grant, are walking home from rehearsal, they are attacked by two guys and Grant is injured. Since Max was too drunk to fight and help his friend, the only way to salvage his reputation is to discover who the assailants were. As he digs into the event, Max faces increasing danger and is also forced ...

Susan Marlowe is a librarian who doubles as a jewel thief. When Richard Scott, an insurance investigator with mysterious government connections, catches her switching a real diamond for a paste replica, she is forced to help him steal back the famous Eye of Mumbai from an unscrupulous and violent Russian oligarch. Warning herself not to get personally involved with the attractive investigator, Susan soon finds herself becoming progressively more entangled in the theft and in her feelings for Richard. When things go wrong and she is placed in great danger, Susan must rely on her own ...

Charles Bentley, a retired professor of English at Opal College, was once present at the tragic death of an American soldier in Vietnam. Now, a grandchild of that soldier is seeking revenge against all of those there at the time of the incident. One person has already been murdered, and more deaths are promised to come. While Charles looks over his shoulder, hoping to spot the killer before he strikes, he is also tapped to be director of the students' fall play, a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. The students want to put on a gay version, while the ninety-five-year-old ...

When Marcie is approached in a restaurant by a strange man who claims to have a map to hidden pirate treasure, she is initially skeptical. As author of the Weird Happenings column for Roaming New England Magazine, she has heard lots of stories, most of which have turned out to be exaggerated or untrue. But the Spanish coin the man shows her looks real, and he appears to be honest. So Marcie decides to bring along her colleague Amanda and Amanda's boyfriend Richard to investigate another weird story in New England. A story which leads to excitement, danger . . . and death.

Madison Revere, a lawyer in her late twenties, has just been made an associate partner in the firm of Baker and Kerr located on the New Jersey shore. One of her first duties is to help execute the will of a software entrepreneur, who died when his rope broke while climbing with his wife in the Alps. Everything appears to be going smoothly, until the man’s sister claims that her late brother’s wife, who stands to inherit a fortune and control of his company, murdered him. Although Madison’s boss is inclined to ignore the charge because it lacks proof, she quickly finds herself ...

Set in the resort town of Shore Side at the southern tip of the New Jersey shore, the story begins when Madison Revere, a lawyer in her late twenties, is attending a summer celebration sponsored by her law firm. It turns deadly when a senior partner is murdered with an ice pick in the middle of the party. Asked by one of the other senior partners to investigate, Madison finds that the killing has surprising roots in the distant past. At the same time, she is involved in helping her best friend Cindy exonerate her boyfriend, who is suspected of killing this ex-wife. Both cases cause Madison ...