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The DeMYTHStification of Writing is a failsafe, easily mastered approach to written communication, one that emphasizes common sense and skills that readers have been honing since infancy. It is for those among us who never mastered grammar - the language of language - and whose teachers never had a kind word for anything they wrote. It is for those in the workforce who believe a simple business letter is beyond them. It is for journalists who aren't so set in their ways that they are unwilling to entertain the possibility that there might be more efficient, perhaps even more effective, ways...

1964 isn't shaping up to be a banner year for Tacoma Police Captain Thomas Gaston. A childhood friend has been murdered. Gaston has been charged with helping to bomb his favorite watering hole. He has been stripped of command of the TPD's detective bureau and replaced by his best friend. His wife has tried to skewer his boss with a pair of shears. His father has suffered a stroke. Two shadowy figures may be trying to kill him. A black trusty is about to reveal he's not what he appears to be. And Gaston's girlfriend is working on a book of poetry. How could things get any worse?

"Conversation With A Dead Man" is an experimental novel, one that tests whether the narrative in an 800-page murder mystery can be contained almost exclusively in dialogue among the book's three principals. It begins with the murder of Country & Western star Sonny Weathers outside his Memphis home late one evening in 2012. His assailant, a complete stranger, appears to have been motivated by an on-line wanted poster that put a $25,000 price on Weathers' head. Weathers' widow, Barbara Whitehead, believes the poster was the work of more than one person and that clues to their identities can be...