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    Dirk Knight: The Case of the Rustled Ranch
    Dirk Knight: The Case of the Rustled Ranch
    Dirk Knight: The Case of the Rustled Ranch
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    Dirk Knight: The Case of the Rustled Ranch

    By Jason A. Adams

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    When trouble finds Barb Collins, Dirk Knight finds trouble.

    A newly-minted Private Eye who throws himself into the job.

    A newly-minted chef who knows good food.

    Trouble drives them together in a case like no other.

    Dirk's solution promises them both sweet things to come.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJason A. Adams
    Release dateApr 14, 2020
    ISBN9781393984191
    Dirk Knight: The Case of the Rustled Ranch
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    Jason A. Adams

    Jason A. Adams grew up in various Air Force towns, but Southwest Virginia has always been his homeplace. His military brat childhood exposed him to exotic locales, fascinating people from around the world, and a lifetime curiosity that informs his fiction.Jason is the author of many short stories based in and around the Virginia coalfields he lives in and loves. He currently lives on a forest mountain with assorted beasties, and his beautiful and talented wife, Kari Kilgore, also a writer of many wonderful stories.Find out more at www.jasonadams.info, where you can sign up for information on upcoming releases, and the occasional update from The Brain Squirrels.For all works released by Spiral Publishing, including Kari's many fantastic stories and non-fiction by Frank Kilgore, check out www.spiralpublishing.net.

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      Dirk Knight - Jason A. Adams

      Dirk Knight

      To all the gumshoes and those who put them in print.

      Dirk Knight

      The Case of the Rustled Ranch

      Jason A. Adams

      Spiral Publishing, Ltd.

      Prologue

      Atlanta never sleeps.

      From Roswell to Jonesboro, from Smyrna to Stone Mountain. The Big Peach hums and roars twenty-five hours a day. The city has seen its share of movie stars, moguls, and mobsters. Saints and sinners living, loving, and dying in the mosquito-filled swampy air of this global hub of humanity.

      Most of the people living in The City of Trees are decent folk who mind their manners and do their jobs. But, as with any mixed barrel, sometimes a rotten apple gets down in the middle of things and causes a spreading blight of trouble.

      That’s when the good citizens of Atlanta call on Dirk Knight, Private Eye.

      Chapter 1

      The twenty-first of June. A Tuesday. 3:13 PM. Sodden heat blanketed the city like a sheepskin rug fresh from the washing machine. Dirk Knight turned the rusty box fan up another notch and moved it from the window to his desk. The stiff breeze blew his loosened tie over his shoulder, but his trusty gray fedora kept his hair in place.

      His basement office wasn’t comfortable, but beggars can’t

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