When Army Master Sergeant Jason Teal is arrested on a trumped up charge of forcibly raping an officer, opportunistic feminine action groups start beating their drums creating a tympany to further their disparate agendas. Politicians, seeing a window ...
When artist HC Lee arrives in Korea for his army tour of duty, he is assigned the job of painting a general's name on baseball bats. To keep a reasonable perspective on life, occupy his time and maintain is artistic skills, Lee paints war stories as ...
What happens when you sit down on your back stoop to drink your morning coffee and find a disabled space ship sitting in your back yard? Of course, you declare "Finders-Keepers." The Finding wasn't hard, but the Keeping proves to be the problem. The ...
"Losers-Weepers"-After four decades, again there was an alien spaceship sitting in Alvi and Stud's backyard. This time their old adversary was seeking human help to repel carnivorous invaders, who were eating their way through the Czarian homeland an...
The Usher Orlop Mystery Series 1 & 2 The Golden Janus Usher Orlop is commissioned to create a silver death mask of a slain boy. His serious doubts about the direction of the police investigation leads Usher and his jeweler friend, Anasette, to get in...
The Nickel Trophy: An unusual commission offer for the apparently simple task of sculpting a memorial to a boy, accidentally killed 40 years ago, turns hazardous, raising suspicions as to the real cause of death. Usher must sort through feuding commu...
"The Brass Portraits" An art school chum arranges for Usher to sculpt portraits of six retired Army colonels. The friend is brutally murdered along with two colonels. Usher and Anasette have their work cut out for them helping a widow, six orphans...
The Usher Orlop Mystery Series 7 & 8 The Silver Scepter: Usher travels to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico to execute a silver scepter for an unusual client. Usher finds his creation is used to bash in the skull of a woman. Usher rescues her tiny son an...
Charm Catcher: Two boys, fourteen...Mano, an Asti, a descendent of Lemurs and Mike, a human, a descendent of the Great Apes, rub together as they find themselves in a series of dangerous, life-threatening situations. Dream Weaver: Now sixteen, Mano s...
While seeking a nude model for his life drawing class, Zain Zook, sculptor, finds Rose, an itinerant model. Rose embodies all of the physical attributes he has been envisioning as the figure for a new series...The Lady and the Towel. The arranged...
There are a lot of bad men walking around out there because it is against the law to kill them. The Pessimists' Roundtable at the American Legion Post realized that there was a situation where the law was no longer a deterrent. They organized "A Few ...
For three days, Usher had to tolerate a snappy, snarly, ill-mannered adolescent runaway. However, when Usher is told that the kid is wanted for two hideous murders, committed a couple of days before their encounte, Usher says, "No way." But, he still...
The Yellow Ochre Stain: Sage Grayling is a trompe l'oeil painter, who periodically finds himself in new locations for extended periods of time as he executes large commissions. While working on a painting in Los Angeles his boss is murdered. Sage fin...
Sage's new contract for a large Trompe-L'oeil painting in Cocoa Beach, Florida seemed to be in jeopardy when a serial killer's graveyard was discovered on his client's ranch. The situation gets even more complicated when the client is the only one wi...
A principal client asks Usher if he will deliver the new sculpture to Portland, Oregon, instead of the normal shipping. Upon arrival the client reveals that he has a distant lineal interest in a strange case in California where a young woman is beate...
Taran, the only spaceship on Earth, is sent by its owners to investigate an anomaly that has turned up in the Sun's system. Astronomers believe that it is not a naturally occurring body. The five member shake-down crew, who took Taran aloft the first...