Could it be just a cosmic coincidence that exotic dancers begin disappearing around the South Bay area in record numbers just after a well-fed, 6-foot alligator is spotted in the San Pedro's Machado Lake? Alto saxophonist Loose Bezich, whose topless terpsichorean girlfriend is terrified, doesn't believe in such concurrences. Loose calls on bandleader and fellow-jazzman Lars Lindstrom to help him check out the scene. Lars sets their suspicions before jazz fan and friend Captain Tom Cheatham of the L.A.P.D. Tom tells them he suspects that a rogue former cop with a penchant for collecting...

Could it be just a cosmic coincidence that exotic dancers begin disappearing around the South Bay area in record numbers just after a well-fed, 6-foot alligator is spotted in the San Pedro's Machado Lake? Alto saxophonist Loose Bezich, whose topless terpsichorean girlfriend is terrified, doesn't believe in such concurrences. Loose calls on bandleader and fellow-jazzman Lars Lindstrom to help him check out the scene. Lars sets their suspicions before jazz fan and friend Captain Tom Cheatham of the L.A.P.D. Tom tells them he suspects that a rogue former cop with a penchant for collecting...

A Stroll Through the Land of Broken Toys is a collection of the poetry of Zen-Beat author Skoot Larson over the last 40 years. Skoot's poetry is hard-hitting, to the point and often political in nature. This is a collection to make you think

The newly elected President of the United States is approached by two former presidents, who just happen to be his father and brother, and the king of an Arab nation with a plan for world peace. The heart of the plan involves giving Palestine back to the Palestinians and relocating Israel to the new world. But is it a true peace proposal, or something much more sinister? The new Nation of Israel is to be given a strip of land 10 miles wide and 15-hundred miles long, stretching from San Diego, California to Port Isabel, Texas, along America's southern border, which will effectively solve...

Why would a conservative Texas state senator pay a failing small town private eye to find his missing sense of humor? And then, a month later come back to ask the man to find out if his wife is being unfaithful. The senator claims either a cheating wife or no sense of humor could cost him re-election. A former Los Angeles Police detective, Dave Holman, who now runs a one man agency in a small Texas coastal community with little or no crime isn't sure what to think. Business is so slow that he shares his tiny office with an exotic Indian lady who runs the local elephant rescue. Holman...

Dave Holman, the Texas detective is back When a teenage girl is kidnapped, her mother is afraid to go to the police because she is an undocumented Mexican worker. Dave Holman is recommended to her as someone she can trust and Holman is ready to take on the Russian mafia to help the woman get her daughter back. But the Russians know Holman's Achilles heel. Dave's partner, Yolanda, who runs the Rockport Elephant Rescue has a baby elephant that she loves dearly. If Holman won't back down, the gangsters promise to torture baby elephant Sammi in front of Yolanda. What will Dave Holman do faced...