Doyle's Wedding: Arthur Doyle, P.I. Series, #7

By Bob Moats

Doyle finally pops the big question to Poppy. She accepts his proposal of marriage. Things seem to run smooth, untit a mystery man appears at the office and gets nosy about the wedding. Doyle isn't happy about people sticking their nose into his private life so he and Drew finally catch the man and question him. A phone call from an old enemy of Doyle's sets off another mystery. Is his life in danger or will the wedding be a target for revenge. After the wedding, Poppy gets kidnapped and Doyle rushes to find her. Will he save her from the clutches of the old enemy of his. Will they make it to the honeymoon? This book is a novella, shorter than a novel, but longer than a short story. It's the 7th Doyle book of the series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bob Moats
• Release date: Nov 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201192341

Bob Moats

Detroit area resident, Bob Moats, has been writing short stories and plays for as long as he can remember. He has lost most of his original stories, typed or handwritten, in the numerous moves he has made from his hometown of Fraser, Michigan to Northern Michigan, to Las Vegas and back to Fraser, where he now lives. Moats became one of the causalities of unemployment a year ago, and had time on his hands to finally pursue a life long dream of writing a full blown crime novel. Thus was born the first book, "Classmate Murders".What followed was a series of seven books starting with "The Classmate Murders" which introduces the main character, Jim Richards, who has to admit he has become a senior citizen, reluctantly. Richards, one day, receives an email from a childhood sweetheart asking for his help, but by the time he reaches her, she has been murdered. His life turns around and he is pulled into numerous murders of women from his high school who he hasn't seen in forty years. Along with a friend of his, Buck, a big, mustached biker, they go off to track down the killer before he can get to one former classmate, Penny Wickens, a TV talk show host who Jim has just fallen for while protecting her. The killer is also murdering the women right out from under police protection, driving homicide detective Will Trapper crazy, and he slowly depends on Jim to help. There's humor, suspense, wild chases across suburban Detroit with cops, classic cars and motorcycle clubs; murder, mayhem, a good amount of romance and a twist ending.Jim and his crime fighters, continue in the other books, traveling to Las Vegas twice, back to Detroit and out to New York to solve murders involving dominatrix; mistresses; Bridezillas; magic and strip clubs.Book titles: Classmate Murders; Vegas Showgirl Murders; Dominatrix Murders; Mistress Murders; Bridezilla Murders; Magic Murders; Strip Club Murders and Made-for-TV Murders.

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Extra special thanks to:

To Amy Morningstar, for editing my chapters.

To my proof reader Al Norris for proofing the final copy and hopefully catching all those annoying little errors that slip through.

Thank you to all the people who purchased this book. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it for my faithful readers.

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Chapter 1

Doyle and Poppy were cuddling in bed as Doyle cleared his throat. You know we talked about marriage. What do you think about that?

As I told you I think it’s something I could do. We both aren’t getting any younger, and marriage is a commitment. At our age it’s something we need to think about before we get too old.

I’ll be sixty in five years, he said. Two more years and I can collect Social Security. That makes me feel old, so I don’t want to grow old too fast without you.

I’m not far behind you and as I told you I’m the last in my family. I need someone to grow old with and even die with.

Well, we can die together. He turned to the night stand next to him and opened the drawer. He took out a small case and turned back to her. Poppy Drake, will you marry me, he said as he opened the case and showed her a ring.

You’re supposed to get down on one knee and propose, she said, taking the ring and putting it on.

Not while I’m naked. Accept this or I’ll take back the offer, he said.

Okay, if you are going to be that way, I accept. Are we going to wear clothes to get married?

I certainly hope so. We can have all the guests get naked though.

I don’t think they’d want to do that. Besides, I have no relatives or friends who will come. You said you don’t want to see your family, so this will be a small wedding. Just Marge and Drew.

We can have them get naked.

Will you stop with the naked now? This is serious. I want to remember our wedding and enjoy it. I’ve been married before and it was a mess. A quickie wedding before the justice of the peace. We didn’t even have a honeymoon.

I’ll make sure our honeymoon is special. Okay, I’m going to take a shower; you can join me if you don’t mind the nakedness. He got out of bed and headed to the bathroom. Poppy jumped up and followed.

They showered and toweled off, then went to get dressed. That was a nice way to start the day, a marriage proposal and a naked shower, Doyle said.

Are you going to be talking about being naked all day? If you are, I’m not going to your office. I’ll go to my office at the insurance company and see if I get abused there.

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