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The Maltese Meatloaf Mystery and Other Tales: A Phillip Bartlow Mystery
The Maltese Meatloaf Mystery and Other Tales: A Phillip Bartlow Mystery
The Maltese Meatloaf Mystery and Other Tales: A Phillip Bartlow Mystery
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The Maltese Meatloaf Mystery and Other Tales: A Phillip Bartlow Mystery

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This two part rollicking tongue-in-cheek film noir mystery begins in 1951 in Eda City, a small metropolis in the Mid-West. Retired detective Phillip Bartlow has made a name for himself as the citys only Culinary Private Eye.

In Part One, The Maltese Mystery Meatloaf, Bartlow is hired by a beautiful young lady to hunt down an up and coming new chef who is serving his patrons dry meatloaf. Bartlow is thrown into a comic adventure which brings him in contact with a cast of characters that include local gangsters, restauranteurs, angry police and a psychotic murderer. In the midst of this tangled web of crime and mayhem, our hero suddenly finds himself falling in love with his secretary/research assistant, Connie.

Part two, The California Honeymoon Caper finds our now newlyweds, Phillip and Connie Bartlow, traveling cross country to spend their honeymoon in San Francisco and at Connies aunts caper farm in Santa Rosa, California. Phillip and Connie find themselves caught up in another perilous, but humorous, adventure involving revenge, murder, and exploitation by the unsavory characters that they meet on the train.

LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateJan 31, 2014
ISBN9781491722190
The Maltese Meatloaf Mystery and Other Tales: A Phillip Bartlow Mystery
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Robert Oster

Robert Oster is the author of two earlier satirical novellas, The Maltese Meatloaf Mystery and The California Honeymoon Caper, featuring Private Culinary Detective, Phillip Bartlow. Both stories are combined in one book, The Maltese Meatloaf Mystery and Other Tales Prior to his literary career, Dr. Oster, a psychologist specializing in REBT (Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy) and hypnotherapy, had presented a countless number of courses, seminars, workshops and training programs in the areas of stress management and burnout prevention, chemical dependency treatment, customer service, program development and team facilitation at colleges and to public and private sector organizations for over thirty years. Robert lives in Central New Jersey with his wife Judy, a college instructor.

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