Roger Dale Trexler

• Aug-2025
• / General Fiction

The murderer, dubbed The Harlot by the media, was on a brutal killing spree that had moved from St. Louis to southern Illinois. By all indications, The Harlot appeared to be a woman, but there was something odd that Detective Frank Powell couldn't qu...

• Nov-2017
• / Science Fiction

Tom Hannigan has seen things. From fires that seem to have a life of their own, to things that come bubbling out of the ground from the depths of the Earth, and to the very end of time itself, Tom Hannigan has seen it all. In the spirit of WEIRD TALE...

• Dec-2016
• / Literary

Abused and afraid, Tom Decker makes the decision to run away from home. The cave he and his friend Al had recently discovered seemed like the perfect place to hide....but Tom’s abusive father wasn’t about to go to the police to find him. Instead,...

• Apr-2016
• / Science Fiction

• Feb-2016
• / Mystery

A brutal murder has happened in a southern Illinois cornfield. The culprit appears to be the local alcoholic. But, when another murder occurs while the suspect is in custody, Sheriff Mark Graff realizes the town drunk was merely a puppet in the rea...

• Jan-2015
• / Mystery

Frank Powell, Chicago’s finest detective, is at it again. This time, he is working some of his toughest cases. He travels to southern Illinois to solve the case of a vicious murderer known to the press as “The Plumber”; he discovers that a st...

• Dec-2014
• / General Fiction

• Jul-2014
• / Science Fiction

• Mar-2014
• / Horror

• Jan-2014
• / Fantasy

• Jun-2013
• / General Fiction

A coming of age novella about Sherman Tanner, a boy who runs away from home to be with the girl he thinks he loves. On the way, he finds out that life isn't always perfect and that things seldom turn out as planned....

• Dec-2012
• / General Fiction

Prequel to The Cold MinuteFrank Powell wasn't always Chicago's finest detective. Before him, his father, Richard Powell, ruled the streets. Back then, Frank was a rebellious teenager, hanging out with the wrong people and doing the wrong things. O...

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction

It happened.....nuclear war.In a cave in the hills outside Jonesboro, Illinois, three teenagers hid from the darkness and radiation of nuclear winter.Then, one day, a brilliant white light filled the heavens. Was it a sign from God? Their salvation? ...

• Oct-2004
• / Science Fiction

It started out as a simple flight from St. Louis to Chicago. Until the aliens showed up. The crew and passengers watch in horror as the alien spacecraft emits a strange light that immobilizes the plane in mid-air. Something else was deposited by the ...