New Joe Ganzer Mystery Almost Ready for Release

The publisher didn't much care for this image, but I liked the initial sketch and thought it fit the pulp fiction vibe. I wanted it to look as though it might have been on a shelf somewhere, well-read and a little beat up. They finally agreed. Plus, the whole story is right there on the cover:

The back cover continues that theme and gives some (but not all) of the details. 

We are looking at a mid-May release. The ebook edition (which comes FREE with the paperback) includes the entire 1931 catalog of Frank Marshall, the real-life puppet maker fictionalized in The Dummy Case.  Both editions include his biography, as well as the biography of famous ventriloquist Jimmy Nelson, also a character in this story.

Pre-orders will be available soon wherever books and ebooks are sold.

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Return of the Falcon

The year is 1946. Chicago private eye Joe Ganzer, a haunted former WWII espionage agent, is about to take a case he doesn't want from a mysterious Russian beauty he doesn't trust to locate an uncle whose story he doesn't believe. And a friend from his past, a two-time loser, will ask Joe to get him out of a treacherous jam. If he helps him, they may both end up dead. Dark days are about to descend on Joe Ganzer. He will become tangled in a web of espionage and stolen booze and stolen art and murder-- and he will come face to face with the legendary Maltese Falcon.

"Return of the Falcon"
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10 Reasons Why William Shakespeare is a Fraud

Although the little animations may rankle you, the reasons presented below are spot on. Anonymous used such inconsistencies but wound up fingering the wrong author of the plays.

The whole story is a lot more bizarre than what's presented in the movie Anonymous. For one thing, William Shakespeare was involved in the murder of his rival. My essay The Masque of William Shakespeare explains how William Shakespeare rose to prominence in the theater right after this murder.

Read The Masque of William Shakespeare on Kindle or any other e-Reader at Smashwords. 

Cast of Anonymous Defends Film

The film is controversial because it doesn't offer believable evidence that Shakespeare was indeed Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford. My essay The Masque of William Shakespeare gives compelling evidence that Shakespeare was part of an elaborate conspiracy that ended in murder.

                                      **Read it at Amazon Kindle or Smashwords.**