Mark S. Bacon

A Nostalgia City Mystery

1 - Death in Nostalgia City (Sep-2014)
2 - Desert Kill Switch (Oct-2017)
3 - The Marijuana Murders (Mar-2019)
4 - Dark Ride Deception (Oct-2021)
5 - The Woke and the Dead (Mar-2025)

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  The Woke and the Dead
  

  • Mar-2025
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Nostalgia City Mystery - 5
  

  A public war between a governor and a theme park lights the fuse on a story of murder, hate groups, corruption, bigotry, and political espionage. Lyle Deming finds a body in Nostalgia City's parking lot during an LGBTQ event. The ex-cop turned t...

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  Dark Ride Deception
  

  • Oct-2021
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Nostalgia City Mystery - 4
  

  Is Tom Wyrick Dead? The computer genius is missing. So are his priceless tech secrets. Time for Lyle to go undercover, again. Tom Wryick's mind-bending technology will rocket Arizona's Nostalgia City theme park decades ahead of the competition. ...

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  Cops, Crooks & Other Stories in 100 Words
  

  • Sep-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  Two con men create an ingenious parking lot scam—and get away with it. A detective sergeant outwits his inspector and solves a murder. Can all this happen in 100 words? Yes. Each mini story is complete, most with a protagonist, a challenge, and...

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  The Marijuana Murders
  

  • Mar-2019
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Nostalgia City Mystery - 3
  

  Nostalgia City executive Kate Sorensen finds the body of a mechanic crushed under an automobile hoist in the theme park’s garage. Accident or murder? Will it impact Kate’s decision to become advisor for one of two competing statewide campaigns to...

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  Desert Kill Switch
  

  • Oct-2017
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Nostalgia City Mystery - 2
  

  A Deadly Vegas Pursuit--with a Twist...

  On an empty desert road, stressed-out ex-cop Lyle Deming finds a bullet-riddled body next to a vintage mint-condition 1970s Pontiac Firebird. When he returns to the scene with sheriff's deputies: no ca...

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  Death in Nostalgia City
  

  • Sep-2014
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Nostalgia City Mystery - 1
  

  He thinks he's on edge now...then people start getting killed... Uptight has been ex-cop Lyle Deming default setting for years, but his new job, driving a cab in a theme park, promises to cure his chronic anxieties. Nostalgia City is the ultimate res...

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