"The Rheinbholz Affair" Including Other Suspense and Horror Stories "Inside the Black Labyrinth" and "Full Moon"

By James Pecora

The first and main story, The Rheinbholz Affair deals with suspense. A girl who never knew her father but as, yet to encounter some very, strange and shocking secrets. In the second story Inside the the Black Labyrinth a mixture of Greek mythology, suspense, insanity and horror as a Greek Scholar and expert of Greek mythology finds himself in a very unusual situation. In the final and third story Full Moon, a female attorney believes that the man that she is defending is innocent and even befriends a police officer. A fascinating triangle.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 31, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496927637

James Pecora

James Pecora was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1952. He has worked as an actor and has appeared on television, movies, plays and written his first book “The Rheinbholz Affair”. He is a graduate of East Side High School and Essex Country College, both in Newark, New Jersey, and Kean University in Union, New Jersey. James has also worked as a teacher and special education assistant in Newark and Jersey City, New Jersey, and has been a member of the US Naval Reserves in New York’s Naval Militia. He currently resides in Kearny, New Jersey.

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Published by AuthorHouse 07/22/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4969-2765-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4969-2764-4 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4969-2763-7 (e)

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CONTENTS

The Rheinholz Affair

Chapter 1 The Rheinholz Family

Chapter 2 Going out on her own

Chapter 3 The Heimler Cirucs

Chapter 4 Beginning a beautiful relationship

Chapter 5 Jealousy & Rage

Chapter 6 Before the Next Show

Chapter 7 A Few Facts Come Out

Chapter 8 The Illness Gets Far Worse

Chapter 9 A Very Lonely and Difficult Period

Chapter 10 Hans

Chapter 11 A Fun-filled Weekend

Chapter 12 Back on the Job

Chapter 13 Trying to Keep a Secret

Chapter 14 Off on a Honeymoon

Chapter 15 Receiving a Report

Chapter 16 Being Held Captive

Chapter 17 A Severe Trauma

Full Moon

Inside The Black Labyrinth

This book is

dedicated to the following people who have been very supportive of me through the years:

My mother Rosemarie Pecora and my late father James Pecora. My brothers; Anthony, Rick and Steve And their families: My sister, Christina Galvao and her family.

To all my aunts, uncles, cousins deceased as well as living. To my dear friends, Avelina Cabral, Tony Branco, Frederick Lott, Dr.Robert Brezinski and his wife Gail. Karl and Sueli Petry, Matt Myers and his family. To the late Ira Flitter and his family. Christina and Daise Dossantos, and Rob Canfield.

To the organizations that I belong to and all the wonderful people in them:

SAG-AFTRA of New York

Ironbound Executives assoc. of Newark, New Jersey

The Deutscher club of Clark, N.J.

The Naval Enlisted reserve assoc.(NERA) Garden state chapter, Roselle park, N.J.

The American legion# post 99 Kearny, N.J. and all affiliated posts in Hudson county, New Jersey

Unico - Kearny- Italian service organization Kearny, N.J.

The Teaneck New theatre of Teaneck, N.J. and all it’s members

The Hartigan family of Kearny, N.J.

Thank you all, Yours truly,

James Pecora

THE RHEINHOLZ AFFAIR

by

James A. Pecora

CHAPTER 1

The Rheinholz Family

BAVARIA IN THE SOUTHERN PART of Germany is a most beautiful place. In this area of the Fatherland are absolutely splendid attractions. The picturesque, large White Castle, Neuschwanstein, built by Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, during the 1870’s looks like something out of a Fairytale. It is the year 1969.

There are the other beautiful castles such as Linderhof and Herrenchimsea. Besides, there are the beautiful Alps, where the peaks have snow all around. Not far from Munich, there lies a barren castle. A house of hobility which had once known greatness. Now the house holds only four occupants. There is Karl, a tall blond haired young man, very athletic in appearance.

His job is that of caretaker, chauffeur and butler. He is quiet, hardworking. He is about thirty years old. The next inhabitant is Helga, who serves as both a maid and a cook. She is in her late twenties, with light brown hair, high cheekbones and is about five foot tall. She is an attractive woman and also she is Karl’s wife. They are both originally from Munich and have been with this household for at least the past seven years.

Now of course, there is the lady of the household, Graffen Ilsa Von Rheinholz. She is an attractive woman in her fifties and usually she spends much time in her garden. She has to be confined to a wheelchair because both her legs were seriously injured from a bombing raid during the war.

Some of the nerves in her legs were severed and although she received the best type of surgery, the final result was conclusive. She would never be able to walk again. This was particularly hard for her to take because previously she had been a singer and dancer. She had even appeared in a few films during the 1930’s and 40’s and with Germany on the rise to power, so it had appeared that her career would blossom as well.

She is about five-foot-three inches tall, with well gray hair that was once blond. Even now she is still very attractive and seems in good spirits. In spite of her handicap, she tries to remain as active as possible. She has blue eyes that still maintain an amusing twinkle in them.

Now of course, there is the fourth inhabitant, her lovely daughter, Hildegard. She is five-foot-five, with long blond hair. She is very well developed, about twenty-six and very beautiful. She typified in every respect, every aspect, the Nordic Blond beauty. To those that would see he, she could be described as Sehr Schoen or Das Madschen mit Blonder har. The castle where they had lived was old with the stucco peeling off in certain areas. Also the towers looked very medieval, but the only really attractive part of the estate was the gardens that surrounded it. Karl would plant them and so would Hildegard. The plants were attended to many times under the supervision of Graffin Ilsa Von Rheinholz.

Although confined to a wheelchair she would arise early each morning and be able to supervise the activities in the garden performed by Karl. The work sometimes is an awful lot for Karl, so at least two or three days a week, a professional landscaper has to come in. In the evenings, Hildegard’s mother Ilsa, will be alone in her room listening to recordings she had made at the height of her career. Also there is a room, with a sound projector, where she could view some of the films that she had made during the 1930’s and 40’s. She was indeed a beautiful woman with a beautiful voice and she had even boasted of giving a performance in front of the Fuhrer.

During the late 1930’s she had met Graf Wilhelm Von Rheinholz, a Lieutenant Colonel, in the Wehrmacht. She had been in Berlin a few years working at bit parts in plays and films. When she had met him, her life would take a drastic change. Her parents had been in show business as circus performers, but she was interested in the Stage and Film.

Both Graf Fritz Von Rheinholz and Ilsa had become attracted to each other instantly. He used his influence to get her better parts in films and plays. Eventually, she had leading parts and in some very fine films.

He was tall, close to six foot and had possessed a very military forbearing. He was always dressed in a very well pressed bluish-green uniform with spit and polish boots. His chest spotting some high military decorations. Also he was of Prussian descent and had high cheekbones, light brown hair and blue eyes.

He was impressed with Bavaria and always had wanted to have an estate there. Before the war had started, Ilsa and the Graf Von Rheinholz had made frequent trips to Bavaria and they had both loved it. It was like a Fantasy Land to them. In June 1938, they were married, spending their honeymoon in Switzerland and had purchased the estate in Bavaria. What they had enjoyed the most was the ride up the cable cars to the Alps. On May 7, 1939, their first child had been a boy named Fritz. Their second child, Hildegard, had been born in February 1944. Both were lovely children. Fritz had looked much like his father with brown hair and had often stood erect just like a soldier. Hildegard had beautiful blond hair and it was either long or kept in braids. The children were usually dressed in Bavarian Folk dancing costumes and when there were festivals of music and dance, they would usually participate.

Hildegard had grown up to be a lovely, beautiful girl. She had never really known her father because at War’s end in 1945, he had disappeared. He was listed as missing in action and then eventually given up for dead. He was last seen in Berlin in May of 1945. Ilsa had taken it pretty hard for she truly was in love with him.

Just a few months before, she had the accident that would leave her crippled for life. She was in a building that had been bombed and a steel beam had fallen across her legs with debris on top. She could never move her legs after that. The beam had crashed down on her legs with such impact causing very serious and in some cases irrepairable damage to her legs. Some of the nerves were badly cut up.

There was a room with momentos of the past, consisting of Nazi and show business memorabilia. For the most part Ilsa had lived very much like a recluse and perhaps she was quite contented. She preferred living in the past remembering only the glory and the happiness of the late 1930’s and early 40’s when she, her