
"The Fifth Precinct" stories


"The One Dollar Caper"
July 2003


"Bad Connection"
November 2007


"Fast Fingers & Coffee"
June 2007


June 2008
"The Franklin Folio is Missing"


[Derringer Award Finalist]
"A Killing Season"


"The Seven Dollar Clue"
September 2009


"Grave Consequences"
Issue #126, Feb 2010


July 2010
"A Diamond of a Joke"


"Death in the Bright Darkness"
Issue #133, Nov 2011


"Only Death Gets Your Respect"
Issue #136, Aug 2012


"A Season for Money"
November 2017


"Murder and Multitude Other Sins"
December 2020


"A Dead Man at 35,000 Feet"
December 2023
[My 1st Mystery story]
September 2008
A five-year hiatus caused by a traumatic brain injury that took away my ability to read and write
2011 ~ 2016
[Excellence in Writing Award]
[3rd Place Winner]
[Contest, Honorable mention]
[Sent in a trunk story]
[Accepted: 2009 Published: 2012]


"Love is a Crushed Car"
Issue #187, May 2025
It's still under construction
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