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The Man Who Never Checked Out begins when fourteen-year-old Herman (Herm as he hates to be called) Krause, the son of the manager of the Quarter Deck Hotel along the shore of southern New Jersey, discovers the body of a murdered guest. He makes this discovery while with his cool-headed frenemy, Becca Collins. Herm is a part-time cleaner (never to be called a maid), and Becca is a bus person, as she insists on being called, who clears tables in the restaurant. When it becomes apparent that the violent death of a guest may jeopardize his father's job, Herman decides that he must solve the ...

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...

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 ...

Charles Bentley, retired professor of English at Opal College in Opalsville, Massachusetts, and recently published mystery writer, travels to Royston College in New Hampshire to help a woman he loved over forty years ago. Although she abruptly broke up with him at the time, he still feels obligated to her. She is now Royston's president but is accused of improperly attempting to influence a tenure committee, a charge which could force her from office. She requests that Charles represent her at the hearing, and he somewhat reluctantly agrees to do so. Charles soon discovers that fulfilling ...

When Charles Bentley, retired English professor and sometime amateur sleuth, marries the chief of police in the Town of Opalsville in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, he expects to support her in sickness and in health. However, he does not anticipate having to discover who killed one of her officers, but this turns out to be the case, despite the fact that Charles is in the midst of a career change to becoming a mystery novelist. As usual, Charles is surrounded by strong, attractive, and somewhat frightening women who offer suggestions on how he should behave. Not deterred by criticism or ...

Charles Bentley receives two surprises. First of all his wife, Joanna, who is also chief of police in Opalsville where they live, wants to have a large Thanksgiving celebration in their new home. She asks Charles to do the inviting. Under some pressure he agrees, wondering all the while where he will round up enough people for such a gathering. The second surprise comes when his old friend Sidney Collins comes to see him. Charles and Sidney were undergraduates together at Yale and went on together for graduate school in English literature at Harvard. Sidney is a well known public ...

Charles Bentley, retired professor of English at Opal College, has taken up meditation, but he finds his concentration shattered when violence enters the meditation center. At the same time, an acquaintance who is a college counselor is viciously attacked in front of his own home, and Charles is enlisted to find out why. He soon finds that the only way to discover answers is to become the bait for a potential killer.

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 ...

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 ...

Susan Marlowe, librarian and retired jewel thief, gets involved in her old life when her fiancé, Richard Scott, an insurance investigator, asks her if she can discover the identity of the person who fashioned the replica of a stolen pink diamond. Susan's investigations get her into a confrontation with a murderer and into a collaboration with The Phantom, a charming and notorious high-end jewel thief. When their attempts to ensnare the killer don't go as planned, Susan finds herself facing an enraged killer, and she must rely on her wits and luck to survive.

When seventeen-year-old Abigail Taylor turns down the proposal of her suitor, Tom Dawkins, her family feels that she must go out and make her own way in the world. So a position as a servant is secured for her in the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson.Derest David is the story of the few months in the year 1841 during which Abigail experiences life in the Emerson household at the peak of both its intellectual and emotional intensity. She falls in love with the free spirited but emotionally cool Henry David Thoreau. She discovers the power of the prophetic and frightening Lidian Emerson. She meets ...

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?

Madison Revere, a lawyer in her late twenties, lives on the New Jersey shore in a fancy Victorian home she got in a terrific deal from one of her past boyfriends. Although she is living well, she is lonely. Her previous boyfriend has moved to Manhattan, and her best friend is married with a baby and a busy life of her own. Even Madison’s dog has moved on to live with her friend. As a result, she feels at loose ends with only her work to keep her occupied. So, when a woman her own age, who is a researcher for the local police department, comes to question her about the suspicious death of ...

Charles Bentley, a retired professor of English at Opal College, was once present at the tragic death of an American soldier in Vietnam. Now, a grandchild of that soldier is seeking revenge against all of those there at the time of the incident. One person has already been murdered, and more deaths are promised to come. While Charles looks over his shoulder, hoping to spot the killer before he strikes, he is also tapped to be director of the students' fall play, a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. The students want to put on a gay version, while the ninety-five-year-old ...

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.

Madison Revere, a lawyer in her late twenties, has just been made an associate partner in the firm of Baker and Kerr located on the New Jersey shore. One of her first duties is to help execute the will of a software entrepreneur, who died when his rope broke while climbing with his wife in the Alps. Everything appears to be going smoothly, until the man’s sister claims that her late brother’s wife, who stands to inherit a fortune and control of his company, murdered him. Although Madison’s boss is inclined to ignore the charge because it lacks proof, she quickly finds herself ...

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 ...

When seventeen-year-old Abigail Taylor turns down the proposal of her suitor, Tom Dawkins, her family feels that she must go out and make her own way in the world. So a position as a servant is secured for her in the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Dearest David is the story of the few months in the year 1841 during which Abigail experiences life in the Emerson household at the peak of both its intellectual and emotional intensity. She falls in love with the free spirited but emotionally cool Henry David Thoreau. She discovers the power of the prophetic and frightening Lidian Emerson. She ...