My Newest Book: âDid the Frail Have a Heater?â
Itâs mysterious, quirky, detectory, funny, and youâll learn a bunch of phrases you never knew existed.
Silver Medal Bookfest Award â Private Investigator
Gold Global eBook Award – Humor
Silver Global eBook Award â Mystery
Readers Favorite 5 Star Award â Sleuth
Hereâs a free sample. (Give it a second or two to cycle through to the sample. Weird, I know.)
No need for me to read any more samples; Iâm going to Amazon.

Sam Marlowe isnât a happy dick. His noir-obsessed parents combined the names of two literary private eyes â Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe â hoping heâd become a snooper. He did. But they didnât count on their son getting a bullet to the noggin that injured his brain. Now, he talks in that 1930âs hyperbolic style where guns are gats and women are dames.
Itâs funny to us, but not to Sam. He dislikes the way he talks. It scares away dates and confuses clients. Even though he doesnât think or act like an old-time PI, Sam battles every day not to sound like Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon.
Despite his quirky and off-putting patter Sam is still a well-respected PI, which attracts Helen Boston to his office. âI caught a whiff of Xanax and chardonnay,â Sam notes, as she tells a bizarre story. He agrees to take her case along with two others at the same time. Why? âFictional PIs always have multiple cases that come together in the end,â he says, âjust like story lines in a Seinfeld episode.â When Helen dies from a drug overdose Sam knows it was murder.
In the end, Sam finds Helenâs killer, solves the other two cases and exposes how drug cartels, Russian oligarchs, crooked politicians and many of the worldâs one-percenters hide their cash in a legal, global matrix that some have dubbed Moneystan. (Thatâs a true thing.)
The only thing the book doesnât have is a subtitle which should be: âFor 99 cents, you canât go wrong.â FYI, my cut is 34 cents, so clearly, itâs not about the geetus. If itâs the kinda thing you might enjoy, give it a whirl.














