Skullduggery: The Jazz Stiletto Mysteries

By Russ Crossley

PI Jazz Stiletto returns after the events of A Day Without Sunshine. He travels under the nom de plume, Allan Harper, a wandering man for hire.

A friend asks to help the owner of the Skull Inn on the coast of Massachusetts. Jazz accepts. A guy's gotta eat.

He soon discovers dark secrets, and bloody murder. Skullduggery abounds in this new mystery by the author of the Razor and Edge mysteries.

• Language: English
• Publisher: 53rd Street Publishing
• Release date: Sep 7, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386421740

Russ Crossley

International selling author, Russ Crossley writes science fiction and fantasy, and mystery/suspense under the name R.G. Crossley. His latest science fiction satire set in the far future, Revenge of the Lushites, is a sequel to Attack of the Lushites released in 2011. The latest title in the series was released in the fall of 2013. Both titles are available in e-book and trade paperback. He has sold several short stories that have appeared in anthologies from various publishers including; WMG Publishing, Pocket Books, and St. Martins Press. He is a member of SF Canada and is past president of the Greater Vancouver Chapter of Romance Writers of America. He is also an alumni of the Oregon Coast Professional Fiction Writers Master Class taught by award winning author/editors, Kristine Katherine Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. Feel free to contact him on Facebook, Twitter, or his website http:www.russcrossley.com.  He loves to hear from readers  

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Skullduggery

Skullduggery

Russ Crossley

53rd Street Publishing

Skullduggery

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Russ Crossley

Published by 53rd Street Publishing

Copyright 2013 Russ Crossley

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This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental.

Contents

The Jazz Stiletto Mysteries

Skullduggery

About the Author

Other books by the Author

Also available from 53rd Street Publishing.

The Jazz Stiletto Mysteries

A Day Without Sunshine

Skullduggery

Instrument of Justice

(first published in Over My Dead Body online mystery magazine)

Skullduggery

Iparked next to a late model green pickup that was beside a cherry red Taurus in front of the bar off the main building of the Skull Inn. After turning off the cars engine I sat in silence wondering why I agreed to leave the city. I hate the country. But a guys gotta make a living. Especially a guy

like

me

.

The inn's owner, Bum Walker, invited me here saying he had a job for me. He told me Big Pete Scarpella, from the old Jersey neighborhood where I grew up, recommended me. Pete and a few select others of my contemporaries from the old days, are people I still stay in touch with. I'd been in Boston two months ago visiting a friend when I was first introduced

to

Bum

.

I've been hiding in plain sight under an assumed name for the past two years since I'd been in the unenviable position of meting out justice for the murder of Sunshine Robespierre. My nom de plume these days is Allan Harper; at least that's what my counterfeit id papers say. In my old life I used to be Jazz Stiletto, PI, shamus, dick, gumshoe, or just plain old private investigator if you prefer. My PI license ended after the Sunshine case, after