Sam Jenkins Novelette Mysteries Collection 1 — Wayne Zurl

This collection of published novelettes by Wayne Zurl of the popular series about Police Chief Sam Jenkins of Prospect, Tennessee. Each case presents the reader with compelling circumstance, Zurl's brand of wit and Jenkins' justice. A Labor Day Murder - Chief Sam Jenkins learns of an illegal card game and the sale of moonshine at the Iron Skillet restaurant and decides to raid the premises. A Murder in Knoxville - Prospect PD's Chief Sam Jenkins answers a friend's call for a favor and ends up investigating a murder in another jurisdiction. Bullets Off-Broadway - Prospect City Councilman Danny Swope had two bad habits. He drank too much and he beat his wife. Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves - Gypsy con artists roll through Prospect, Tennessee and inveigle an expensive boat and trailer from Chief Sam Jenkins' friend. Scrap Metal & Murder - Building contractor, Scott Beets, seeks help in catching the person responsible for stealing the copper wire and pipes he uses for home construction. By the Horns of a Cow - A fourteen-foot-tall statue of a cow is stolen from a market in Prospect, Tennessee. With the laughs and giggles that inquiries bring regarding the theft, Jenkins is not happy. Serpents & Scoundrel - A past informant leads Chief Sam Jenkins and Sergeant Stan Rose to a partially buried corpse in a forest clearing once used by marijuana growers. Murder in a Wish-Book House - Chief Sam Jenkins investigates the murder of a Tennessee school teacher. Wayne Zurl worked for twenty years with the Suffolk County, New York Police department where he gained investigative and supervisory experience. Zurl has published twenty-six non-fiction magazine articles, all dealing with Early American history or the fiction of James Fenimore Cooper. He is retired and lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.