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Fifth Estate – The Latest Anthony Carrick Hardboiled Murder Mystery

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Anthony Carrick is at it again. Sleuthing, boozing and bruising his way through another murder mystery 😉

This time he’s taken up a case to help out his old friend, Captain John Roberts. Roberts’ first love – from high school – has recently lost her nephew to what the cops are calling an unfortunate drive-by shooting. Roberts is not convinced.

So, with this sad tale, he ropes in Carrick to help investigate the case. It’s Anthony Carrick’s grittiest case to date. The nephew was gunned down after exiting a biker bar in Jersey City where he was meeting with a guy who seemed to be a crackpot. But is he?

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The Golf, Cheese and Chess Society – A New Lady Marmalade Mystery Novel

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Greetings lovers of murder mysteries and the first half of the twentieth century. I’m pleased to announce that I’ve published the 7th Lady Marmalade novel for your reading pleasure. As the title says, it’s called The Golf, Cheese and Chess Society.

What is the The Golf, Cheese and Chess Society about? It’s about 3 murders that take place during World War 2. The first in the Lake District, the second near Bletchley Park, and the third in an expensive London apartment.

All 3 murders might be related and Lady Marmalade needs to help solve them if the outcome of World War 2 remains in Britain’s and the Allies’ favor!

Incidentally, The Golf, Cheese and Chess Society was a secret phrase made from the acronym GC&CS. The GC&CS of course, being the Government Code and Cypher School of the United Kingdom. The GC&CS is now known as GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters).

The NSA is the American equivalent of the GCHQ.

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Small Boy – A New Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel

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I’ve just released my latest novel. This one is titled Small Boy. It’s sort of a dystopian/sci-fi novel with some wicked twists.

It was interesting the way the writing went with this novel. I originally sat down to write a book that was going to be very different.

I wanted to write a novel based on my father’s life. He’s lived an interesting and varied existence in his seventy-odd short years 😉

But as soon as I sat down, the first sentence was of a different voice. It reads “I was born a small boy to a resentful woman.” I knew this was going to be about someone different.

It’s interesting, because sometimes I literally feel as if I have voices in my head of real people that are dictating their stories to me. Maybe writers are just tapped into time or multi-verse portals and we’re really just biographers 🙂

In any event, you can read more about it here, or continue on with the links below to find Small Boy at your favorite eBook retailer.

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Fourth Wall – The Newest Anthony Carrick Mystery

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The latest Anthony Carrick mystery has just been released. It’s called Fourth Wall and it’s set in LA, Anthony Carrick’s home base.

Anthony Carrick is helping his old pal, Captain John Roberts from LAPD Homicide investigate the murder of a young starlet, found dead in her pool after a raucous party.

But then another starlet winds up dead, and then Hollywood’s most handsome hunk gets shot in the chest after speaking with Anthony Carrick and Capt. John Roberts. What’s going on? Is it just a disgruntled movie critic?

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One Million Dollars

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Phantoms of the Pharaoh Research Materials

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In the email you likely came from, I was telling you about the curse of the pharaohs and how it was considered absolutely real in the early part of the 20th century. In fact, it really took hold in the public’s imagination when Lord Carnarvon died from blood poisoning which we now know was caused when he nicked a mosquito bite with what was probably an infected razor while shaving.

Here is a picture of Lord Carnarvon.
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He died in 1922 shortly after Howard Carter’s team uncovered and disturbed Tutankhamon’s tomb. This tomb was guarded by a statue of Anubis. This is the actual statue you can see below.

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I find this a beautiful statue, especially considering how old it is. It is estimated to be over 3 millennia old. Tutankhamon died at around 18 years of age around the year 1323BCE. It’s really a fascinating tale of intrigue.

And although Tutankhamon was found in the Valley of the Kings which is roughly 640km from the Great Pyramid of Giza, it was an inspiration for the story and Lady Marmalade does take a riverboat trip down to the Valley of the Kings. You can buy Phantoms of the Pharaoh for any e-reader here.