The Ox-bow Island Adventure

By Mark Hall

The third in the Chris Calhoun series of mysteries set in middle Georgia has Mark and Chris trying to figure out what happened to young Ryan Burton on a strange night. Digging into Ryan's strange service call to a welding job in the middle of nowhere when he was not allowed to see the route - could they retrace his steps? What would they find?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Hall
• Release date: Dec 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310248849

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The Ox-bow Island Adventure

By Mark Hall

Copyright 2015 74Blues Publishing

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Acknowledgements

I am grateful for the time I have with my boys. There are always mysteries; bugs, holes, sticks, and places to go. No matter how old they are, the sense of wonder is there and needs to be explored.

One

Chris Calhoun and I were in my shop behind my house on a Monday morning in late March of last year. I wouldn’t call myself a carpenter but I do like woodworking and have been showing Chris how to use the tools and different equipment I had. He was very observant just as he was when we were working on the puzzles we occasionally get called to help with. I first found out Chris had some background in criminal investigation when we helped out with the dogfighting ring in the Rozar Park mystery that I wrote about previously and since then had helped on a number of investigations since then. I have written several summaries from my field notes that I hope to get down on paper whenever I get the time. That thing with the counterfeit insurance checks would be interesting and I would especially like to put on paper, or on computer screen, that weird story about the missing construction worker from the hospital.

I was working on a set of bookshelves and attached desk for my cousin who had just bought a house. On the right side of the desktop were two drawers and I was working on a hidden section at the back of the top drawer.

It’s really an illusion, I said to Chris. I showed him the design which included a false back of the drawer. If you pulled out the drawer to the end, you would not notice anything out of the ordinary. It appeared to pull out like any other drawer but if you lifted the drawer

Reviews for The Ox-bow Island Adventure

[bege · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was a nice short cozy mystery, no dead bodies, but some cunning thieves. And the mysterious Chris helped work out what was going on.