Coloncho County Mysteries

by Ben Ezzell, Daisy Carson

Overview

You’ve heard of the Sixties? Draft beer, not students? Haight–Asbury, not commies? Free love, free flowers, free the Indianapolis 500? There was a bumper sticker going around on the ‘straight’ side that said: If You Don’t Like Cops—Next Time You’re In Trouble—Call A Hippie! Which made a good point. When a hippie’s in trouble, who does he call? Anarchy being a notoriously unstable form of government, just how did the counterculture handle its internal, er, excuse the term, ‘police matters’? Because, the more you avoid the established legal process, the more you find yourself playing judge, jury...and jailer—all by yourself... On that theme, here is a story set in the legendary Sixties...the best of times...and the worst of times...Commune Law. After you’ve met Alex and Anastasia...and their “antagonist” Sheriff Cunningham...in Commune Law here’s another “hippie” mystery. This time, however, the crime was real enough and the solution was an Inside Job. And, once more Alex and An find themselves embroiled in a mystery … and facing their old protagonist, Sheriff Cunningham. Still, time passes in Coloncho County just as elsewhere and what began as a `friendly’ adversity eventually mellowed into friend-ship. Maybe it’s just difficult for a peaceful hippy to dislike a peaceful sheriff... In any case, in The Man Who Read von Dani-ken, the hippies and the lawman cooperate to solve a different mystery. Rural America has rarely been a setting for mystery fiction but, here in Coloncho County, Texas, when a crime is committed, it seems that almost everybody gets involved. Thus, while Alex and An do not appear in Organic Gardening for Murders, Sheriff Cunningham is back but, this time, he has to contend with a far more formidable ‘assistant’: Miss Jessie. Continuing, there is a long-standing tradition that a mystery story should be fair play. While we agree in principle, there are times that ‘fair play’ just isn’t possible...and A Little Learning illustrates just such an occasion... Last, maybe there’s something about Coloncho County but, even when people leave there, they still retain a different outlook and, when necessary, solve problems with a unique approach. For Nadine, faced with a problem without a ready solution, what she really needed was simply a False Note.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011829772
Publisher:	Dragon Tree Press
Publication date:	09/30/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	219 KB

About the Author

Ex-Navy Air Crew and electronics expert, Ben returned to college for a ten-year stint collecting multiple majors in Math and Sciences as well as one in Arts and by correspondence, a BS degree in Computer Sciences. During his college career, Ben was an antiquarian book dealer but later began traveling (both throughout the US and abroad) while publishing more than two dozen books on computer programming. Tiring of writing about computers, Ben became a software design engineer and has two patents to his credit. Now retired (medically disabled, DAV), Ben lives in the Pacific North-west, in a temperate rain-forest jungle on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula accompanied by Mary, his lover for a half-century and his companion/nurse and sometimes boss, Keiser, a miniature Schnauzer and Medic Alert Service Dog with a penchant for challenging (and winning against) bears. When not overloaded with other projects – and there always seem to be other projects – Ben enjoys crafting mysteries which have backgrounds and plot divergences not commonly found in the genre but which are all authentic and drawn from a long and varied career in several fields and countries. Daisy Carson is a nom-du-plume for a lady who has written a number of fantasy and fantasy-related titles but remains shy and retiring ... except when she also is attacking bears.