Matt Steward boarded his small twin engine plane for the flight back to his home town. He had just closed a deal that would keep his aviation parts company business going for a few more years. It wasn't long into his flight when he suddenly found h...
The land west of the Mississippi was a wild and untamed land. It took lawmen, outlaws, storekeepers, farmers, soldiers, teachers, bar girls, and strong willed women to tame this vast country. All kinds of people crossed the great Mississippi River ...
Conflict in Elkhorn Valley is the story of one man's fight to keep the ranch he had worked hard to build in Elkhorn Valley in Montana. Sam Willard had spent years building up his ranch only to have a couple of his neighbors try to take it away from ...
Private Investigator, Frank Tidsdale, receives a call from a very nervous and distraught man by the name of James Carlson. Carlson claims that he is about to be arrested for killing his wife, but claims he didn't do it. While on the phone, Frank ca...
There are many stories of the frontier, a time when this great country was having its own growing pains. In this book you will find a story of a man who is simply trying to survive from one day to the next against all odds. There are stories of out...
Nick McCord receives a disturbing call from his old friend Tom Walker. Nick takes time off from his job as a Milwaukee Police Detective and goes to his friend's Gill's Point Lodge on the shore of Lake Michigan. Tom tells him about a body found on th...
Marcie Roberts was a well known country western singer. For the past four years, she had been doing the same thing every night, night after night. She would be in one city one night, and another the next. There was never any time to see the city, ...
A Dead Man's Treasure is the third in a series of Nick McCord mysteries. Nick McCord leaves his job the Milwaukee Police Department to go to Monica Barnhart when she tells him of the murder of her boss and friend, Sam Kishler, while he was in the Su...
To look at Kandace Clarke, one would never know she was blind. She stood tall and carried herself well. Many men had admired her figure, her smooth complection and the soft shine of her shoulder length hair. Her Seeing Eye Dog, Chester, guided her...
Peter Blackstone is visited by the sexy young wife of a prominent Denver figure, Arnold Williams. Samantha wants to know why her husband goes out on Wednesday nights without her. Peter takes the job, but before he can follow Arnold, he is murdered....
Milwaukee police detective Nick McCord is again embroiled in a murder case that leads to other murders. In his investigation he invites Monica Barnhart, a history professor and expert on antique jewelry, to join him in his quest to find the murderer...
The Return Home is the story of two high school sweethearts who return to their home town after twenty-five years. Mary Weston returned from Peru to settle her grandmother's estate. In her first weeks in her grandmother's house, she is shaken by so...
Balboa Rendezvous is a love story that takes place at San Diego, California in a time of uncertainty, the year being 1963. It was a time when the Vietnam War was getting underway for the United States. Young men were being sent off to war while oth...
Lora Winters had caught her boyfriend having an affair with his secretary. In an effort to get away from him and think about their relationship, she headed for her grandfather's ranch in the foothills above Denver. With tears in her eyes and wet ro...
Peter Blackstone, a Denver Private Investigator, was returning home from a date with his long time girlfriend when he turned a corner and almost ran into a large lawn bag. When he tried to remove the lawn bag from the street, it broke open. He disc...
Peter Blackstone, a Denver Private Investigator, is visited by Walter Endicott, a local car dealer, and his wife. They tell him about their son, Jonathan, running off with an older woman. It isn't until Peter finds out Walter tried to buy the woman...
The late eighteen hundreds was a time of growth and expansion in this great country. The land was open and wild. Often the land was waiting for the strong to take it and make something of it. It took courage just to keep it once it was settled La...
Tales from the Territory are stories about what it took to tame the land that is known as South Dakota. The Dakota Territory was formed on March 2, 1861 about six weeks before the Civil War began. It remained a territory until November 2, 1889 when...
The Story of Joshua Higgins is the story of a young man who seeks to build a life for himself in a new land. Although it is told as the story of one man and what he encountered over the years in the land that became known as the Dakota Territory, an...
Private Investigator, Frank Tidsdale, was visited by Attorney General Patrick Greene who wanted Frank to investigate corruption in the Criminal Court System. AG Greene suspected there was at least one judge who was taking money to control the outcome...
What secrets did Spiny Ridge hold? Whatever they were, they were worth attempted murder, trespass, theft and corruption. The dinosaur-like ridge stretched dauntingly across Lazy A Ranch. Tracy Atwater had returned to take over the operation after ...
Rene Richardson's life had become routine and dull. She wished that there could be a little excitement in her life. She thought that meeting a tall, dark and handsome man would be a good start. Her wish began to come true when she received a lette...
Private Investigator, Nick McCord, receives a call from a well known New York City antique dealer named Neil Cox. He wants Nick to find his missing son. Nick discovers Neil's son, William, has been missing for five years. He explains the difficult...
Private Investigator, Nick McCord, suggested that he and Monica Barnhart, his girlfriend, get married on a Great Lake Cruise ship. She was excited by the idea and asked her best friend, Pamela Pierce, to be her Maid of Honor. Nick asked Tom Walker, a...
Private Investigator, Nick McCord, receives a call from a well known New York City antique dealer by the name of Neil Cox. He wants Nick to find his missing son. Nick discovers Neil's son, William, has been missing for five years. He explains the dif...
The brutally tortured body of a young man was found in the old Jasper quarry which had been closed for two decades. Deputy Bill Sparks of the Pennington County Sheriff's Office was called to investigate. Bill's investigation leads to several suspec...
Having just turned sixteen, Susan Farnsworth gathered her belongings then stepped out into an unfamiliar world to her. Standing in front of the orphanage, it frightened her to know that she could not simply turn around and go back inside, and for th...
During the mid to late eighteen hundred settlers moved out across the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to make a new life for themselves. Law and order were in coming to the settlements in the west. Frontier Justice is a collection of western short ...
Peter Blackstone, a Denver Private Investigator, received a phone call from Josh Garrett, a man he knew in college. Josh asked Peter if he would meet him at a café in downtown Denver. He didn’t say why he wanted to meet Peter; but Peter thought th...