Bloody Bonsai: A Jim Dandy Elderhostel Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Abresch, Peter E.

Mystery

Thorndike Pr

After their last adventure during an Elderhostel bonsai class, when Dodee was kidnaped and Jim found himself face to face with a killer, James P. Dandy (yes, that would make him Jim Dandy) and Dodee Swisher expect that their second trip to a Baltimore, Maryland, Elderhostel cooking class cannot possibly have the excitement the first one did. They hope to simply spend the time together, getting to know one another better, learn about how the great chefs of the world came to be great chefs, and maybe add to their own mediocre cooking skills.  They're wrong, of course. Before they even arrive in Baltimore, the chef scheduled to guide the Elderhostel group dies of mushroom poisoning. Then a very rich Elderhosteler is killed in a traffic accident, Jim and Dodee listen intently to the bickering among the chefs about who's most suited to be the headliner for a new TV show called "A Dash of Thyme" -- and learn that the show's creator has gone missing. And then another chef dies right in front of them from anaphylactic shock.  Convinced there is a murderer on the loose, the irrepressible Dodee is off and running after clues with a reluctant but stout-hearted Jim Dandy at her heels -- but, since Dodee's guessing is right on the mark, so is the killer..."

Killing Thyme: A James P. Dandy Elderhostel Mystery

When senior citizens James P. Dandy and Dodee Swisher go canoeing in South Carolina with the elderhostel program, their romantic rendevous is interrupted when they find a corpse in a nearby swamp.

Tip a Canoe: A James P. Dandy Elderhostel Mystery

Hunt for Pink October (A Mason Scully novel)

Independently published

....James P. Dandy and Dodee Swisher are reunited again on a hiking and whitewater rafting Elderhostel(r) in North Carolina. Jim's not too crazy about either the hiking in the woods or the whitewater rafting, but Dodee is really up for it, and he is really up for Dodee in their continuing love affair. ....Plus there's an added bonus. ....Considering Dodee's proclivity for turning up bodies and getting in into hassles with the coppers, he welcomes the idea as a respite from past troubles. ....After all, how many killers lurk about in the woods for passersby to bump off? And who ever heard of a drive-by shooting from a rubber raft? ....But think again, Jim Dandy, and tighten your personal floatation device, for you're in for a wild ride. ....Elderhostels(r) are learning adventures for those mellowing into fine wine. Like to learn more, or read a few chapters, go to: http://www.elderhostelmysteries.com

Name Games: A James P. Dandy Elderhostel Mystery

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Chance Dugan–retired at 33 and living on board Chicago, a derelict boat–and his buddy, Snack McGhee, keep getting innocently embroiled in other people's problems without even trying.  Like Jinx, whose boyfriend sails off in her catamaran and in finding it gets Chance and Snack involved in a drug bust.  Or how about the two old-time gangsters showing up to reclaim a treasure stashed years ago on board Chicago?  Only it ain't there.  There is the drunk woman at a library celebration who claims her feet were stolen, but the guy who stole them lounges in the children's section with a knife in his chest.  Then Chance and Snack get wacko on Happy Tomatoes given them by a genius–or looney tunes–who crossbred tomatoes with Maui Wowie marijuana.  And finally Chance's girlfriend wants to sneak into the Drum Point Lighthouse and make love on the old lighthouse keeper's bed.  How can he say no to that? And through it all, Al Capone disputes Chance's ownership of Chicago, treating him with malevolent disdain in spite of him feeding her and cleaning out the litter box.   Damn cat.

Me and Snack McGhee: The adventures of Chance Dugan

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

The day he lost his job, Rex Barney receives in a disbursement of a will, one skeleton key. Big deal. He'd rather have money. But the key is his entrance to the exclusive Spyglass House, a private club built on the fault line of time and space, each side-door opening onto another world. So it is when Rex stumbles out into a 19th century Indjia, a land of snake charmers and elephants, steam engines and sailing ships, he falls in with two shady ladies who promise him sweetmeats and card tricks on a train to Norpur if he will help them appropriate a stash of jewels worth enough to live large in Londoon or Pariie. It sounds like great fun until he is shanghaied aboard a tall ship, runs into pirates seeking to separate head from body, treks through mangrove swamps infested with snakes and mosquitoes, faces jungle people who are out looking for stew meat, and eats stirred-fried beetles which taste a little like chicken, but a whole lot like puke. And all this before he gets caught in the crossfire over who should be the Maharaja of Donjobi. Great fun if he can ever get back to the safety of Spyglass House.

Spyglass House: The Jewels of Norpur

Come with me to Spyglass House where time and space and shifting dimensions meet, and I'll open a side door for you on the alternate world of 1938, take you up in an early biplane, provide you a sleeper on the Pan American Clipper, and fly you to Europe on the great dirigible, Hindenburg, still alive in this world. But you'll have to hang out with Rex Barney as fights the Nazi, tries to squirrel an Enigma Coding Machine out of Warsaw to Britain, and save two women from the Gestapo. Oh yes, and joining the exclusive Six Hundred Foot High Club is in the offing. Also the Two Hundred Meter High Club. The Eiffel Tower Club. The Hotel Kaiserhof Third Floor Adjoining Rooms Club. And, if Rex wins his race across Crazy-land in a Bugatti typ 57S roadster to board the Pan American Clipper, you might be the first to join the famous the Mile High Club. But be careful, you'll be stranded if you lose you way back into Spyglass House. Spyglass House, has no redeeming message, just an amusing romp of escapist literature. Heil Hitler. Mickey Mouse.

Spyglass House #2: Up In The Air

In Hosea 6:6, God says, it is love I desire, not sacrifice. What Burnt Offering volume 2 contains are just black squigglys on white paper, a jumble of letters I worked to string together by the grace of God. They are the only gift I have to return. Even so, in the vastness of time and space are not our lives but whiffs of smoke? Burnt Offerings? Here today. Gone tomorrow. But God's love for us is eternal, higher than the stars above the grass of the fields. And if these black squigglys help you connect with that grace, if they give you comfort, a chuckle or two, a prayer, if they prompt a closer relationship with God or help deepen your faith, than dip your bucket in the water of hope and drink so that your heart overflows. You have become the eyes on the other side of the paper. You save me from being a seed pod rattle in a desert wind. And the squigglys become words of love for both of us. Love is forever. So let the universe ignore us. We don't rule it after all. But take heart, our Father does. PEA October 2015 In December, 2007, I started sending put Burnt Offerings to friends, acquaintances, and fans of my thirteen novels. I started with a small reserve and sent them out each Monday in the to hope they would cheer the day. The idea was to continue until I ran out but through the Holy Spirit the list kept growing so that on in September, 2015 , I sent out Burnt Offering # 370. This book is the second collection numbering some 170 poems. Endorsements: I pray that you enjoy reading these spiritual poems as much as I over the years. Brother Richard McCann. S.T. Peter writes of ordinary things, hardly noticed, such as thanking God for the first sip of coffee in the morning. By pointing to the wonder in simple things he turns the ordinary into the sacred. Fr. Peter Daly: Columnist, National Catholic Reporter. Peter E. Abresch is the author of thirteen novels, a one act play produced by NTP, and a book on writing, Easy Reading Writing.

Burnt Offerings #2: Spiritual Poems Collection

Poetry

Senior citizen James P. Dandy and his friend Dodee Swish do not expect their second trip to a Baltimore, Maryland elderhostel class to be filled with the murder and mayhem of their previous bonsai class, but they find they are quite wrong when chefs start dying all around them

Killing Thyme

United States

Write Way Pub

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