Patricia Mueller and her children are slowly being poisoned. Circumstances suggest that Patricia's husband is the culprit. The Protagonist, employed as a deputy sheriff, is thrust into the unfamiliar role of an investigator. Reluctant to accept the mounting evidence against his neighbor, he doggedly pursues other avenues of inquiry. In the process of solving this mystery, the deputy becomes involved with an aggravated assault, a corpse, a rural cemetery, and long-suppressed secrets.

A warrior wins the hand of a princess with a bounty of foreskins; a skeleton bestows life to a corpse; a throne is endangered by revenge for incestuous rape; a sundial's shadow reverses on command; a demon attacks a family; priests part the waters of a river; a donkey converses with a soothsayer; a king hires a witch to contact a dead advisor; a sacred star plummets to Earth; an ancient race of giants is exterminated; a neglected widow seduces her father-in-law and becomes pregnant; a strongman poses a sticky riddle; thousands meet death for a mispronunciation; the dismemberment of a murdered...

A fatal car accident in the dead of night reveals an unidentified corpse and a gun with a silencer. In this sixth and final installment of a mystery series, the jogging deputy sheriff of Anishanabe County must solve a brutal homicide while preventing a second murder---possibly his own.

A corpse is found in a golf course bathroom, and the jogging deputy sheriff of Anishanabe County is called upon to discover the identity of the dead man and the reason for his murder, in this fifth installment of the mystery series.

Short stories seem the perfect literature for the twenty-first century, because people on-the-go can only spare snippets of time to read for pleasure. Here are twenty-four of my best tales, written during a thirty-five-year span. They are of varying genres, and most can be finished within fifteen minutes. Enjoy.

While it's obvious that Gabe Beck is a killer, it's unclear how he goes about his business. Are his methods supernatural? Is Gabe himself more than human? For certain, the good citizens of Eden, Arizona, (circa 1880) have nothing to fear from the stranger in their midst. But the same can't be said for the Choctaw Kid and his ilk. Can Gabe keep the townsfolk from harm? Will he finally find the redemption he seeks? Can the love of a woman save him? How high will the body-count go? These and other questions will be answered in The Angel of Death.

The bucolic calm of a resort community is shattered by a horrendous multiple murder. A deputy sheriff, who stumbles upon the grisly crime scene, is aided in his investigation by only scant physical evidence and a single surviving witness--the family pet. In addition, the sleuth's personal life is troubled by an incipient romance, a vexatious political race, and a probable link between a past inquiry and the recent killings. With a dogged persistence, though, the deputy is able to uncover a sinister motive of blackmail and revenge, and solves the mystery of The Turner Tragedy. The Turner...

A mythical monster and a body on a beach---combine to stir things up in otherwise tranquil Anishanabe County. In this third installment of the mystery series---An Artistic Death---the jogging deputy sheriff is once more called upon to solve a mystery and dispense justice.

Computer complications, a case of kidnapping, and a malignant memory roil a rural resort village. Is it only a matter of time before corpses start showing up? This is the fourth book in a mystery series, featuring the jogging deputy sheriff of Anisanabe County.

What Makes Brucie Golf? and What Else Makes Brucie Golf? provide the information novices need. And duffers will find them valuable, too.