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And in the works... more Roaring 20s mysteries featuring Max and Allison Hurlock

Death and the Blind Tiger
A Max Hurlock Roaring 20s Mystery

Ellsworth Connelly had it all, a grand house in New York, racehorses, and the money to pursue every woman he met. Along the way he left a vengeful ex-wife and trail of jilted women, jealous husbands, and resentful business partners. Is it any wonder he wound up dead in his own parlor? Now Max and Allison must enter the New York City, with its speakeasies, literary lights, gangsters and corruption. Max becomes the target of bootleggers while locking horns with the New York Police and Allison goes to lunch at the Algonquin round table to solve a case with too many suspects. Their only clue is a blindfolded ceramic tiger...sent by the dead man!

The Duckworth Chronicles

So you think Chesapeake Bay ducks have a dull life? Then you've never met Duckworth and his friends; not to mention the peanut butter and jelly fish, the spinnaker bouncing contest, the invisible Mallard or the alligator stone.

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Nassau

The seas are high and the stakes are higher as daring blockade runners risk the Union Navy's deadly ring of fire and steel.

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NEW! Nassau is now available in a Kindle
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Behind the scenes: The story behind Nassau

Evasive Action:
The Hunt for Gregor Meinhoff

In the darkest days of World War 2, one German POW in northern Canada has learned a secret that could change the course of the war and lead to a Nazi victory.

And he has just escaped.

Can he be stopped in time?

Ellis Parker was a detective so successful he was called the American Sherlock Holmes. For over 30 years he solved the most difficult and complex cases all over New Jersey and beyond. When EllisParker got involved in a case, people took notice. When he conducted his own investigation of the Lindbergh kidnapping and obtained a detailed signed confession, the New Jersey authorities were stunned, especially since they had just tried and convicted someone else! Master Detective tells the whole incredible story in detail for the first time. Don't miss it!

Death on a Golden Isle
A Max Hurlock Roaring 20s Mystery

The exclusive Jekyll Island Club off the Georgia coast is the seasonal home of America's richest and most powerful men. In the luxurious mansions the residents call cottages, nothing unsavory is ever allowed, so it comes as a shock when the popular Bradley Dawkins is found dead from poison in his coffee. Eva Dawkins, the widow and chief suspect calls on Max Hurlock to save her from the unwelcome attentions of the Georgia police, and soon Max and Allison are rubbing elbows with railroad tycoons, financiers, bankers and industrialists. No one seems to have a motive to kill the victim except Max's client, or possibly Bwana Pete, the gadabout big game hunter who seems unusually friendly with the bereaved Mrs. Dawkins. While Max questions members and an odd assortment of servants, Allison moves uneasily through the social minefield of the members' wives all while trying to answer one nagging question: if Bradley Hawkins died from the poisoned coffee, why was his dying word "Cocoa"?

Death of a Flapper
A MaxHurlock Roaring 20s Mystery

In 1922, all Max Hurlock and his wife Allison wanted was a quiet life on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, but a late night visit from an old friend plunges them into a baffling double murder in a locked room. Along the way they encounter speakeasies, flappers, bathtub gin, bootleggers and a future TV star in a case that seems to have more questions than answers. To make matters worse, the killer strikes again and a suspicious local police chief arrests Max for the murder!
And that's just in the first three days.
Will Max stay out of jail long enough to solve the case?
Based on a real case that is still controversial, Death of a Flapper takes you to a world of Prohibition, bathtub gin, jazz, flappers and Model Ts.

Behind the scenes: The story behind Death of a Flapper

News Flash- Master Detective goes East!

    Kensington Publishing has licensed publishing rights for Master Detective to Goodness Publishing in Taiwan, and Chongqing Publishing in the People’s Republic of China.
    Why the Chinese interest in the Lindbergh kidnapping? Well, less than a year before the kidnapping, the Lindberghs visited China to view flood damage and help plan relief efforts, and are still remembered and well thought of there. In Nanking, Anne Lindbergh bought a pair of red shoes for her baby, the baby that would soon be taken away from her. While in China, the Lindberghs met Nationalist leader Chiang Kai Shek, who later fled to Taiwan, which might account for the Taiwanese interest.
    So maybe it is understandable that the Chinese have decided to publish their own editions of Master Detective, but for John Reisinger, the experience of seeing his work in Chinese characters is a little surreal.
    “I wrote it,” John says, “but I can’t read it!”

The Taiwan publisher's web page for Master Detective:   http://www.wunan.com.tw/bookdetail.asp?no=9895
The Chongqing Publishing web page for Master Detective:   http://www.cqph.com/BookDetail-6110.aspx