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Death Imitating Art
by Rich J. Stone
Glarm Ink
Publication Date: March 2008
ISBN-10: 0-9815609-0-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-9815609-0-8
Harry Spangler is trying to scam the SoHo art world, the NYPD and the mafia; and he's using an old Lucy episode as his blueprint. By the way, Harry's a genius. Really.
Death Imitating Art follows the exploits of Harry Spangler, an alcohol-dependent substitute teacher with a photographic memory and a genius-level I.Q. Add to the mix a newly disgraced and unemployed art appraiser with an appetite for revenge; a NoLita bartender with designs on being a mafia capo; and a painter who dreams of stardom and marijuana, but not necessarily in that order. When their paths converge, Harry devises a get-rich-quick scheme, loosely based on a Here's Lucy episode. But the caper rapidly degenerates into a series of entanglements from which not even Lucy could have extricated herself; especially when a mafia uncle and a smitten police detective join the mix.
by Rich J. Stone
Dueling Detectives: A 300-pound gourmet chef and his crime-solving cats vs. a womanizing, hard-drinking, hard-boiled P.I.
Publication Date: November 2009
ISBN-10: 0-9815609-1-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-9815609-1-5The case: A centuries-old curse dating back to the Salem witch trials, poisoned pen letters and a pile of dead bodies.
May the best detective subgenre win.
The Curse Had Nine Lives takes a playful swipe at two beloved detective subgenres. Set in the remote village of Olde Sayville, where the cursed descendants of the Salem witch trials reside, gourmet chef/amateur sleuth Montgomery Maybach and hard-boiled P.I. Phil Dodge narrate the story in alternating chapters in the style of their respective detective subgenres. In a town filled with suspects, motives and questionable alibis, the dueling detectives independently piece together the clues only to arrive at different conclusions. Who is right? Or are they both wrong?
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