Adolf Meistermann: the Devil’S Legacy

By Carl Reiner

The Devils Legacy is about how evil finds a way into the soul of some people perpetuating generations of more evil. Adolf Meistermanns evil burns the very life out of his employees, wife and most of his children yet he is powerless, seemingly, to stop it. Evil kills in many ways as we find out in The Devils Legacy. Can it, will it stop with the next generation?
Peggy Cramers novella manuscript, The Devils Legacy, was picked from over 1000 participants as the winner of Carl Reiners Novel Beginning writing contest in a joint promotion with AuthorHouse.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 26, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491802366

Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner, a comedian, actor, novelist, and film director, was a creator, writer, and producer of The Dick Van Dyke Show. In 1999, he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American humor by the Kennedy Center and inducted into the Television Hall of Fame by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He most recently appeared in Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve. He lives in Beverly Hills, California.

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© 2013, 2014 by Carl Reiner and Peggy Jean Cramer. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 01/30/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4918-0237-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4918-0236-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013913744

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

About the Author

FOREWORD

What you’re about to read is a 43 page novella, co-written by Peggy Jean Cramer and myself. I started this novella as part of a contest which I entitled Novel Beginnings. The premise was that I would write the first chapter outlining the major characters and a springboard for a novel.

I chose Peggy Jean Cramer’s offering as the contest winner because of her extraordinary ability to add a myriad of interesting characters, and two or three sub plots which ended up relating a compelling story that had a satisfying resolution.

I look forward to reading Peggy Jean Cramer’s future writings. She shows great promise.

I hope you enjoy my first two pages, and Peggy’s following 41 pages… and the title that she invented, The Devil’s Legacy.

CHAPTER I

It was contrary to Matt’s nature to consider committing a violent act but here he was seriously contemplating and planning a murder.

Matt Masters went to his cupboard and fetched a tea bag. He could always think more clearly with a steaming cup of tea in hand.

If, he thought, I can rid the world of a person who does not deserve to live—and get away with it, then why not do it?

By the time he had taken a third sip, the nub of a plan started to gestate. Thanks to a television documentary he had seen recently on the burgeoning success of bargain-priced, first-rate cosmetic surgery being performed in India, Matt’s nub of a plan quickly evolved into a sure-fire, albeit bizarre blueprint for a perfect murder and he would commit it! He would fly to India and undergo the plastic surgery necessary to give himself the aquiline profile and the jutting jaw he had always envied in movie stars. Now, at last, he had a compelling reason to fulfill his fantasy.

And while I’m at it, he thought, I’ll have laser eye surgery done and be free of this damned myopia!

Matt’s mind was racing.

He had always hated his blond hair and now, while recuperating from the operations, he would have it dyed brown, the color of his natural facial hair. He smiled at the memory of the slick mustache and beard he had once grown but quickly removed when his father suggested he looked like a damned fop.

Matt was getting