Me and Snack McGhee

by Peter E. Abresch

Overview

Chance Dugan–retired at 33 because of a nuclear accident and living on board Chicago, a semi-derelict boat–and his buddy, Snack McGhee, keep getting innocently embroiled in other people's problems.
Like when Jinx's boyfriend sails off in her catamaran, leaving the diminutive woman destitute on the dock, Chance and Snack set off to track it down, and in doing so get involved in a drug bust and a murder.
Then an old-time gangster shows to reclaim a treasure he stashed on board Chicago before WW2, and falls dead on deck from a bullet wound. That starts a run of ancient mobsters looking for the Chicago's treasure. Only it ain't there. Or is it?
And now about the drunken woman at a public library celebration, claims her feet were stolen, although she's ambulating on something down there, and when they find the thief, he's reclining with a knife in his chest. The Sheriff wants to know how come Chance is always around when a body shows up.
Then when a recluse, one of the richest men in the world, asks Chance to take his place, ride in his private Gulfstream to the north woods, a horticultural genius–or looney tunes crackpot–gets Chance and Snack wacko on Happy Tomatoes.
Finally, in a poignant love story, Chance's girlfriend wants to sneak into the Drum Point Lighthouse and make love on the old lighthouse keeper's bed, only it takes Chance and Snack as much planning as if they were after the Hope Diamond.
Oh and through it all, Al Capone disputes Chance's ownership of the Chicago, treating him with malevolent disdain in spite of his feeding her and cleaning out the litter box.
Damn cat.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013763906
Publisher:	Create Space
Publication date:	11/30/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	434
Sales rank:	590,621
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Peter Abresch is the author of eight previous novels: Capitol Coven; The Faltese Malcom; five Jim Dandy ELDERHOSTEL Mysteries; and If They Ask for a Hand, Only Give Them a Finger which introduced the characters of Chance Dugan and Snack McGhee, although it is not a prequel to Me and Snack McGhee.
He is also the author of a non-fiction book on writing, Easy Reading Writing, easy reading about writing easy reading, published in August, 2001. The challenge, pick up the book and start reading anywhere and if it is hard to read, he doesn't know what he is talking about. He has used that knowledge to output BookMarc, a free on-line newsletter on the adventures of fiction writing.
He also output a free spiritual poem each Monday called Burnt Offerings, free of the asking.
He has also written writing columns for Futures Magazine and articles on e-publishing for Sister-In-Crime, taught fiction writing at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington Independent Writers, and Maryland Writers Association, memoir writing at the College of Southern Maryland, plus various seminars in the Washington/Baltimore area.
Finally, he has written a one act play, Headquarters, which was produced at the Vianney Theater in 2005 and has been selected to be produced in the Maryland One Act Festival in January 2012.
Peter Abresch was born in the USA, a long, looong time ago, was a professional dancer in the far past, a Geodesist which took him all over the world, and a computer systems programmer before retiring from the National Weather Service. He has built three sailboats and, with his wife and five sons, hammered and nailed together a thirty-four hundred square foot house.
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