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Max Moran reluctantly attends a Halloween party at the Congressional Hotel. When he has too much to drink - which is only a couple of glasses of champagne for Max - he goes off to the hotel library, where he promptly falls asleep. He is awakened by a woman dressed as a gypsy who insists on telling his fortune. She catches his undivided attention when she tells him that his lifeline may be about to run out. She also warns him that a mysterious man will soon come into his life, and he should be particularly respectful of this individual. When just such a strange man shows up that night but ...

Shawn Burke is a retired television actor who, for twelve years, portrayed private detective Quentin Mars on a popular television show. Taking some of the substantial money he made as a result of his success, Shawn has purchased a former church in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts and renovated it to be a theater where he intends to put on legitimate theater productions for the many New Yorkers who travel to the Berkshires during the summer. He sees this as an opportunity to give young talent, both actors and writers, a chance to get started. It will also be his opportunity to be an ...

Max Moran looks like Superman but has the personality of Clark Kent. People expect him to take charge, but he'd much rather be a follower. Women expect an alpha male, but he's more the best friend of the romantic lead. This disconnect between his looks and his personality has caused him problems with his family, his girlfriends, and his attempts to develop an acting career in New York. Now he is managing his Uncle Edward's inn in the resort town of Lighthouse Point along the New Jersey Shore, and life is quiet, just the way Max likes it. Then a dead body turns up in one of the rooms, and it...

Madison Revere, a lawyer in her twenties, is living on the New Jersey shore. She hopes to soon be made an associate partner in the law firm where she works. One night, while out walking her neighbor’s dog, the little pooch suddenly leaps up and bites a man who is passing by. This event leads to a chain of occurrences that cause Madison great worry. In addition to biting dogs, Madison must also deal with her lazy, tyrannical boss, a masked stalker, a new love interest, and her status-conscious mother who disapproves of him. Can she solve these problems before the dog bites again?

When Charles Bentley finds the body of his next door neighbor on her kitchen floor, she shows no signs of obvious injury. Since she had worked on the faculty with him as an artist for a number of years and has remained an acquaintance, he is concerned about what happened to her. He is a bit skeptical when the coroner says she died of a heart attack, since she gave every appearance of being in good health. The more Charles digs into her life, the more he thinks about changing his own. At the end, he finds that she did not die of a heart attack, rather she died for art.

Twenty-seven-year-old Clarissa Abbot is a minister who has just gotten her first full-time position as pastor at Shore Side Community Church in Shore Side, New Jersey. A member of her congregation dies in the hospital under suspicious circumstances before he can pass along information about a mysterious event in the past. Feeling guilty because she couldn't convince the man to confide in her before his death, Clarissa begins an investigation to find out his secret. This soon leads back to an unsolved murder that took place in Shore Side over fifty years ago. In addition to this, a shady ...

Charles Bentley, a senior professor of English at the prestigious Opal College, is forced into retirement when Garrison Underwood is brought in from England to take his place. When Underwood is found bludgeoned to death in Charles' office, he must discover who murdered Underwood in order to clear himself. Only after the investigation leads to disturbing revelations about his own past and his closest relationships does Charles discover the truth about the body in his office. Newly edited and revised for 2024.

Retired English professor Charles Bentley is pressured into becoming assistant director of the Opal College fall theater production. This means he must work with the director, the rather intimidating Lorelei Brunson. Everything is going quite well until the person playing the lead in the play entitled The Rake's Last Gasp is murdered outside the theater. This leaves Charles with two problems. He must help his wife, who is Opalsville's chief of police, solve the case, and he must act because Lorelei insists that he take on the role of the rake in the play. Not having acted since his college ...

Do you really know your husband? After ten years of marriage Sarah McAdams thinks she does. That's why she's so surprised when her husband Jonathan, who has devoted most of that time to trying to write the great American literary novel, willing decides to take over the Duke Danforth thriller series when its creator, Harrison Cole, suddenly dies. Since Sarah has been supporting her husband emotionally and financially all of that time, she can understand why he might wish to have the independence that success can bring, but she is uncertain whether it is good for either their marriage or his ...

When widowed sixty-five-year-old Ruth breaks her foot in a fall from a ladder, she is surprised when her caregiver turns out to be a sixty-year-old man. Is the successful mystery writer really ready to change her life for love, even if he is handsome and attentive? At the same time Ruth's thirty-year-old niece, Emma, is breaking up with her older lover, who is also a senior partner in the law firm where she works. Will the animosity between them force Emma to change her view of life and her profession? Love can happen in either the early acts of life or in a later one. In either case, it ...

When Marcie is approached in a restaurant by a strange man who claims to have a map to hidden pirate treasure, she is initially skeptical. As author of the Weird Happenings column for Roaming New England Magazine, she has heard lots of stories, most of which have turned out to be exaggerated or untrue. But the Spanish coin the man shows her looks real, and he appears to be honest. So Marcie decides to bring along her colleague Amanda and Amanda's boyfriend Richard to investigate another weird story in New England. A story which leads to excitement, danger . . . and death.

Innkeeper Max Moran is again involved in solving a murder when the actor playing the victim at a murder mystery dinner held at the Fireside Inn gives the best performance of his life and actually dies. Chief of police Philpot, who hates Max with a passion, dearly wishes to prove that Max is the killer, thus forcing Max to discover the killer's true identity. As usual, Max travels unsteadily along a twisty road that eventually leads him to the culprit. At the same time, Max has a starring role in the local Christmas play, Curzin' Toward Bethlehem, which reinterprets the story of the three ...

When the body of journalism professor Joseph Teller is found outside his office building on the Minton State University campus, questions are raised as to whether he fell accidentally or committed suicide. Both seem plausible since the open window in his office sits very low, and he lost his wife to cancer a little over a year ago. Kate Cameron, a retired police officer and current real estate broker, gets involved when her boyfriend, editor of the local paper and former student of Teller, asks her to investigate the death in order to make certain the truth is revealed.

Charles Bentley, semi-retired professor of English at prestigious Opal College in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, is confronted in his office one day by Sebastian Locke, a survivalist living in upstate Vermont who is on campus to give a speech. Locke is concerned because his daughter’s history professor approached her in an inappropriate way. Bentley has the daughter in class, so Locke has come to him for information on this professor. Charles gives him some advice, and they also have an intense discussion about Thoreau. Charles decides to attend Locke’s presentation that afternoon, ...

Pastor Clarissa Abbot is struggling through the pandemic as minister at The Shore Side Community Church, doing more home visits than ever and trying to keep her congregation healthy and safe. Adding to her problems, a member of her congregation, Brenda Fisher, who is a real estate agent, finds the body of a murdered woman in one of her beach rentals. Distressed by her discovery and concerned that the police may see her as a suspect, Brenda comes to Clarissa and asks her to become involved in the investigation. Although she initially resists, Clarissa finds herself being drawn more and more ...

Clarissa Abbot has been the minister at Shore Side Community Church in Shore Side, New Jersey for just over three months. She feels she is settling into the job well, when difficulties arise. One of the members of her congregation owns a haunted bed and breakfast. The peaceful ghost had previously been something of a tourist attraction, but now it has suddenly begun assaulting people, and the owner wants it exorcised. Clarissa explains that ministers don’t do that, and she also expresses some doubts about whether the attacks are really being carried out by a ghost. This leads the owner to...

Max Moran, a failed actor and manager of the Fireside Inn on the New Jersey shore, finds a murdered man in one of his rooms. The victim turns out to be Dmitri Novikov, who is directing Max in a community theater production of Surprise! You're Dead. Police chief Philpot, who strongly dislikes Max, is trying to find evidence to charge him with the murder, causing Max to feel that he must solve the case himself to avoid arrest. When a second murder happens in the sleepy town of Lighthouse Point, Max believes that the two murders may be connected, and to find out who caused the death of the ...

Madison Revere is a lawyer in her late twenties who works for a small law firm along the New Jersey shore. In When the Dog Bites she is dealing with a difficult boss, a challenging mother, a possible new boyfriend, and someone who is out to get her. She faces all these difficulties while trying to get promoted to associate in her law firm. In When the Rope Breaks, she must discover how a client died while climbing in the Alps with only his wife for a companion. Was it an accident? Was it murder? And if it was murder, who was involved and why? Finally, in When Push Comes to Shove, Madison is...

When one of the guests at the Fireside Inn is murdered, Max becomes a person of interest because the dead guest had complaints about the inn and was threatening to go public. The police also have discovered that the victim was killed by a left-handed assailant,and they think Max is probably the killer because he is starring in a play entitled The Left-Handed Man. Even though Max tries to convince them that he is actually strongly right-handed, the police chief is determined to prove Max to be guilty, and the only way he can save himself is by discovering who is the real Left-handed Man.

When Jerome Kronberg, who is facing prosecution for investment fraud, dies in a fall from a mountain in Connecticut, there are some people who believe it was no accident. Some think it was suicide; some suspect he was killed by an irate client. Others suspect a more supernatural cause. According to the legend of The Black Dog, if you see the dog three times on the mountain, you die, and Kronberg had seen the dog twice when he took his last hike.It is The Black Dog that motivates Marcie Ducasse to investigate the death for her Weird Happenings Column in Roaming New England Magazine. While ...