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Travels and Travails of a Certified Grouch
Travels and Travails of a Certified Grouch
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When is a kidnap not a kidnap or a train robbery not a train robbery? How does one prove paternity when conception occurred sixty years earlier on an Indian reservation with limited written records? How nearly can the human mind produce total recall if carefully questioned? How does one dispose of unwanted ill-gotten gains and remain under the radar of the IRS?


Dr. Thomas McDuff has to untangle each of these puzzles.


A retired physician and widowed he is the Certified Grouch of this series. Since his wife passed away he doesn’t really care about anything very much. He actively dislikes other doctors, hospitals and Medical Schools. Add to the list: big cities, noisy crowds, short skirts, Linnaean taxonomy, anything cooked in olive oil or flavored with paprika. Almost anything can arouse his ire.


            Unfortunately for the good doctor a little gray man in a little gray office in the large gray building in the gray atmosphere of San Francisco knows his weakness, contention. If told firmly that the doctor cannot solve some puzzle his answer is “Any scheme devised by one man’s mind can be penetrated by another’s.” And the old man will attack the problem forthwith.


            McDuff also does not know that the grey man’s sign on the gray door of his gray office says, “Intercontinental Floral Transport Company”. And that it has little to do with flowers except an occasional funeral wreath. In addition he does not know that the old doctor’s efforts, at no expense to the Company, reduces its dependence on ‘endowments’ from a very luxurious office in the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington D.C.

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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateJun 15, 2007
ISBN9781467827362
Travels and Travails of a Certified Grouch
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Adam Dumphy

Inflamed by a novel of and during the Spanish Civil War of 1936, titled, “The Kansas City Milkman”, Adam Dumphy searched out and contacted a clandestine enlistment center for the British Ambulance Corps operating there. Clandestine as it was at the time an illegal act to aid either side in the conflict. To Adam that fit the novel and made it all the more interesting to him and more Hemingwayesque. He ever after felt the British people generally to be biased and intolerant as he was rejected and simply for being only twelve years old. Still he found himself fascinated by that most peculiar of wars even as some men are towards our American Civil War. All the books and information he collected then he still has. His loyalty he has tried to maintain unbiased to either side although it has varied in degree from one side to another from year to year. Now from the vantage point of eighty years of age the only thing he can decide with certainty about the affair is that both sides got a very “bad press”. But then he believes that is true of most major events.

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