The surprise letter from a cousin advising Nick Roth he had inherited $1200 from an uncle he had barely known, was a windfall for his sagging detective agency business, which had suffered during the war years. The additional news that the cousin suspected a cover-up of the death only added fuel to Nick's enthusiastic curiosity.…
Part 2 of 4 (The Stainway Quartet)Nigel Returns to Ashton Hills after a miserable attempt at fame in the big city. It is the 25th Anniversary of the playhouse, and while he's back to assuage his moral conscience, he gets roped in once again with the same crowd he felt caused all his mental grief in the first place . . . and he's about to get some more.This book is a sequel to The Playing Fields.The next book in the series is You Oughta Be In Pictures…
Six couples receive mysterious invitations for an all-expenses- paid stay at the private island resort of a notorious billionaire, with only the names and a few vague ideas of whom the other guests are. Why they were all chosen, and for what purpose, they would have to accept to see.The one commonality they do have, is each couple are major characters in individual stories I have published here. This is my personal, all-in-one homage to some special, fictional friends.…
What they found, arriving at the planet was the entire research team, except for one terrified doctor, had been wiped out by a deadly organism and rescuing her cost the supply ship its crew. The Commander, his Executive Officer and the survivor were the only people who managed to escape back to Earth. But getting home did not mean they had escaped the threat as they soon discovered.…
Choices is a modern fantasy about life choices and their consequences. How an accidental death provided one man with the opportunity of reviewing his mortal existence and how the choices he made directed his own life but also the lives of many others.…
All Barbara Spence had to do was meet the courier at the airport and deliver him to the hotel. Murder, a handsome detective, and the theft of an ancient scroll from a French crime lord, sends ripples across the ocean, where she is swept up in the killing of the courier, and an international hunt.…
At a remote psychiatric facility, horrific events become more terrifying, as a storm further isolates doctor's and patients, battling a deadly force for control of their minds and lives.…
Holly Lakefield, international antique broker/negotiator acquires a one of a kind, miniature replica of Rodin's famous Balzac sculpture for a client, along with the ire of a Russian collector willing to get it at all costs. As well a small time scam artist is trying to secure an item from her uncle and inadvertently gets mixed up in the Balzac troubles.…
Nonsense poems…
Two families, battling two different life changing dilemmas, come together through the introduction of a mysterious stranger not everyone can see.…
A Lockdown ProductionSassy, audacious and independent, Portia DeLysle's impulse to help in any situation stirs up a troubling mix of guns, gangsters, gals, booze and money.Enjoy some jazz from the era as well…
A family vacation ends in a horrifying discovery.A mysterious caretaker with a grisly secret.Pauline, Heddy and their new acquaintance, Andy learn that snooping isn't always the fun they think it will be.A kids horror story…
'I know the truth about Henry.' That single sentence in the mysterious letter delivered by hand, tilted Gwen Campbell's world and changed the lives of the residents of Merryvale Village.…
Part 1 of 4 (The Stainway Quartet)The Playing fields is the first in a series of Nigel Stainway's misadventures in Ashton Hills in Canada. He visits his ex stage actress aunt, hoping to get help with his writing, which was pretty awful and driving his parents crazy. He learns a lot more about the creation of a stage play through his aunt's manipulations and the outrageous residents of The Paisley Pathway. The second book is 'The Further Adventures of Nigel Stainway'."If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack. If you wish to read this story in it's original, safe, form, please go to (Wattpad User Link). Thank you."…
The discovery of an artifact in the Egyptian desert pulls an antiquities professor and his daughter into a frightening world of lost tombs and ancient curses. Jebediah Stone, hired as a guide to lead their little expedition, finds the daughter a more interesting discovery, as they are pursued by other interested parties and the police.…
A scattered collection of works from years past resurrected mainly because I have begun to dry up creatively in the current environment…
Too Many Cooks Spoil The Broth (old adage)Carleton Trasker's fortune came to him the old fashioned way-he stole it. Years of stomping over the business community like some rampaging Gulliver in a world of teeny people, left little time for Carleton to enjoy the experiences he so cunningly lavished upon his victims. During a medical checkup Carleton couldn't respond with other than a jumble of lies and excuses about his sex life. Cautioned against ignoring his natural desires, he embarked on probably the closest thing to a vacation he ever took, rapturously bedding the executive travel consultant who'd arranged his escape. Carleton's one night of bliss ended in unknowingly impregnating the woman.…
The idea that Miriam's long held dream could possibly be realized, set her on a precarious path through a corporate jungle of avaricious players, manipulating careers and events to her advantage, which led to jealousy, deceit and murder . . . Adult themed…
This collection contains my contributions to a unique and fun collaborative challenge designed by @silenttomorrows entitled The Box that just recently finished. The challenge was to write a chapter based on three items left in the box by the previous author. I recommend a visit to The Box to enjoy ALL the posted chapters.silenttomorrows, @naomimrshl and I tackled the challenge by choosing objects for the box that would stump the next person in line and the results were often funny, clever and even poignant.…
Millions were being invested in the Blue Shoals Resort new expansion program. The villa owned by Lillian and Mathew Patton was the last one standing in the way of the development and the sole reason for his boss beginning an affair with his wife and then firing him.…