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Suzi's new friend Lotus and her mother also play an interesting part in this adventure as Peter finds that he is fighting a ring of credit-card fraud and identity-theft experts. There are many types of mysteries, but one stands out over all the others: Over the years, every mystery writer worth his salt has tried to come up with the one that tops all the rest: Jacques Futrelle set the standard with his "Problem in Cell 13," but there hasn't been a really fine stumper since then Gene Grossman seems to have created a locked room mystery to end all locked room mysteries: The crime is actually seen by several witnesses, but the murderer has disappeared into thin air.
If this mystery is to be solved, nobody has a better chance of doing it than a year-old computer whiz: The Santa Monica Superior Court is suffering from a flu epidemic affecting most of the judges, who all got infected while attending a judicial seminar overseas. To help cover their courtroom caseloads, several local trial attorneys are 'drafted' into service.
One of them is Peter Sharp, who is assigned to preside over a high profile civil case involving an attorney with whom Peter and Suzi have had past conflicts. Notwithstanding their history, all parties agree to let Peter hear the case This is the first time in his life that Peter has been in a situation like this, but he feels it is justified because it is to protect someone very dear to him.
You'll be sitting on the edge of your chair as this page-turner forces you to keep reading to its conclusion. It's all been tried over and over. Jacques Futrelle set the standard with his Problem in Cell 13, and John Dickson Carr raised it a bit in his The Hollow Man, and Gene Grossman throws his hat into the ring - not with a mystery taking place in a locked-room, but with a murder that takes place in a room with a completely open-door - but also with an invisible murderer.
As an extra bonus feature, after this last Peter Sharp Legal Adventure, the entire text of Jacques Futrelle's Problem in Cell 13 is set forth for your reading enjoyment. Somewhere behind the tangled mess of a down-ward-spiraling celebrity starlet, a battling married couple, a missing currency trader and a dis-appearing corpse, attorney Peter Sharp and his legal ward Suzi must find where the truth lies.
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As in the past, while Peter's client's trial nears, Suzi has failed to come up with any workable solution that can save Peter from certain defeat and humiliation in court. In Latin, the word "alibi" literally means "somewhere else," and to any person charged with a crime, it is an extremely valuable asset to have, because it can mean the difference between an acquittal and a conviction.
However, just having an alibi isn't enough: In this eleventh adventure of the Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries, Peter is forced into a role he never thought he'd be playing: Nobody likes a killer, but sometimes you have to put your personal likes on hold when you're a professional Peter agrees to the contemplated one-hour of work as a court-appointed defense attorney and makes the court appearance.
But when the case is called, the surprises start, and don't stop until the unexpected end of this twelfth Peter Sharp Legal Mystery. A man is found alone on a speeding boat in the Pacific Ocean, dead from a gunshot to the head. There were no other boats in the vicinity at the time of the gunshot, and everyone but attorney Peter Sharp's legal ward Suzi thinks the man's death is a suicide.
Join Peter and Suzi on Southern California's Catalina Island for this adventure as they try to prove that the man's death was really murder - in one of the most difficult mysteries they have ever tried to solve. Someone knows that attorney Peter Sharp is a big fan of Arthur Conan Doyle, and clues are being left around town that are related to the Sherlock Holmes stories, intending to draw Peter into trying to find out if a major crime is being planned. This book will be especially appreciated by anyone who has read the famous detectives stories, and will educate new Sherlock Holmes readers about his legendary powers of observation.
There is no mystery inside of these books: The very wise and learned Doctor Nick Shoveen, Ph. Although it has been difficult to verify his entire background, his publisher Magic Lamp Press does know that he claims to have received his Ph. Watch for him in your town, unless you reside in one of the municipalities that have requested the doctor to never return.
His latest five books are now available: The opinions expressed by Dr. Shoveen in his books do not reflect the opinions or policies of the publishing company that releases his books - Magic Lamp Press. Readers of these books are hereby forewarned that Doctor Shoveen may have a tendency to exhibit unorthodox opinions and policies as to the place of females in our great society.
Marina del Rey attorney Tom McGuire must defend his client against a charge of carjacking and murder, rescue a proctologist-turned-plastic-surgeon, and battle with a government administrator of the Federal Witness Protection Program.
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Tom also runs into a modern-day Indian tribe that inhabits a high-rise office building, and some militant environmentalists who have unique methods of combating a Malibu real estate development. Also included are confrontations at sea between Tom's aging Chris-Craft and a Mafia offshore racer. Throughout, attorney McGuire's description of the action that takes place in this novel is a sense of humor that could only come from a person who has performed standup comedy, as author Jonathan Schwartz has.
Tom McGuire is on stage in a comedy club, pursuing his dream as a stand-up wannabe. A disturbance in the audience leads to the discovery that one of Maria's 'clients' at her County job is the aged mother of a Russian caviar smuggler in big trouble with the FBI. Tom represents the smuggler, with disastrous results.
A stock promoter Tom prosecuted while working at the US Attorney's office has put Tom's friend and dock neighbor Murray Markoff up to promoting a bogus public company on the Internet, touting the stock of a cold fusion company through a variety of misleading screen-name personae. Throughout, the action is punctuated by Tom's comedy performances and nights in stand-up comedy workshop, and well-informed descriptions of stand-up technique, and the culture of comedy and comedians The author describes the step-by-step process of a classic 'pump and dump' stock scheme, and how promoters have learned to use Internet chat rooms to generate buying momentum.
Marina del Rey attorney Tom McGuire learns that a credit card he never applied for has just been used to buy a new car that winds up in the middle of a 'turf' war outside Santa Barbara, at an idyllic Central California beach called Point Sal.
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Tom's girlfriend Maria is in danger of being charged with murder and Tom himself is once again betrayed by a former U. Attorney's Office co-worker who is in deeper than anyone imagined. Tom attends several of these classes. Recipes taught at the cooking school are collected at the back of the book.
The Books of Edwin H. Sinclair was alive in both fiction and reality, he authored several books, as described below. Sinclair is a close friend and boat neighbor of Gene Grossman, hence his inclusion on this page of mysteries. The mystery here is why so many middle-aged men ruin a perfectly good walk by frequently stopping to try and hit a small ball with a long-handled club, and when failing to do so may angrily bend the club or toss it into some nearby pond of water.
Perhaps this book may provide an answer to the mystery. If you'd rather play golf than just about anything else, then this is the book for you, because if you're not already an expert when it comes to losing, this will help show you more creative ways that you may have never heard of before This book is a collection of humorous golf stories allegedly told by the 'eldest member,' as he sat at the 19th hole of Wodehouse's fictional private golf club.
The sleuth is a young journalist named Joseph Rouletabille, who uses reasoning and logic to solve the crime of the scientist's daughter who is the victim of an attempted murder that takes place in a room with bars on the windows, a double-locked door, making it impossible for the perpetrator to have committed the crime and escaped.
In a novel, John Dickson Carr, the master of locked-room mysteries, declared the Yellow Room Mystery to be the 'best detective tale ever written. The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of his locked gunroom, a confederate-made Colt-type percussion. There were a number of people who had wanted the collection, but had anyone wanted it badly enough to kill Fleming? And if so, how had he done it? Here is a mystery, told against the fascinating background of old guns and gun-collecting that will keep your nerves on a hair trigger even if you don't know the difference between a cased pair of Paterson.
It was Milne's only mystery novel; he is better known for his children's stories like "Winnie the Pooh" and poems. The Red House is an English country house loaded with guests, including a British major, a willful actress, and a young jock athlete. Here's how terms and conditions apply. About the Author Gene Grossman worked his way through high school, college, and law school as a shoe salesman, welder, process server, bail bondsman, tire changer, saloon piano player and 'extra, ' appearing in seven motion pictures.
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I'm hesitant to pay for or even read any others. The "cutesy" juvenile teen and her Saint Bernard are a bit much.
Also, her demeanor with Peter, considering her intelligence, rings false to me. His capitulation also comes off as phony. Sorry about this because I do love legal mysteries. Another very enjoyable reading experience by this author laced with much humor and action. So far I have read two of Gene Friedman's stories and have not been disappointed. Funny and yet informative about the law.
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