John Fulghum Mysteries Series

John Fulghum Mysteries is full of neo-nior short stories dedicated to the Private Investigator, John Fulghum, that just happens to be a decent, brilliant former war hero and gumshoe. Working out of an unlikely second-story office in Greater Boston, he solves crimes that no one else will handle because they do not fit the parameters or jurisdiction of normal police work. They are dirty crimes, involving savage methods and little-understood societal forces most people would rather ignore than address.  In the process of solving his crimes, Fulghum, often at the risk of his life, works with his like-minded friends, Officer Nigel Pounce of Boston Homicide, Randy Mortenson-the ex-Special Forces soldier, or Kenneth Mander-the shadowy clandestine CIA operative.  Fulghum lives on the edge of the law and always beyond the limits of propriety, and his solutions do not extend to the politically-correct society that condones and often harbors the evil criminals that he hunts down. His solace for being a cleaner-up of filth lies in his racing forms, his Jack Daniels whisky and his Marlboro cigarettes.  His life is a series of journeys and returns, but the center of his universe remains the same: honor and justice in a world without either.

The style of E. W. Farnsworth’s stories reminds one of Chandler or Elroy on amphetamines.  John “Jack” Fulghum, Private Investigator, bachelor, former war hero and inveterate outsider, solves grisly homicide cases that stump the overworked police forces of Boston and other cities. To solve these cases, he crosses jurisdictional boundaries in the US and abroad and teams with close, like-minded friends Nigel Pounce of Boston Homicide and Kenneth Mander, of the Central Intelligence Agency. These stories are not for the faint of heart.  In “Hammer” the hard-boiled detective solves the case of the bloodthirsty murder and chainsaw dismemberment of two men and a woman. In “Crop Duster” he solves the case of the execution style murders of two boys who witnessed an unacknowledged black operation in the Deep South. In three linked stories, Fulghum works for a gypsy family and becomes involved in a gypsy war. Two linked “Hacker” stories tell how Fulghum works unofficially with the CIA and NSA to track down a vicious hacker. In “Bloody End of the Line” the detective helps eliminate some of the worst ISIS beheading murderers. Finally three linked “Headshot” stories are about a sniper’s legacy bringing the detective face to face with the killer on Boston Common and a domestic intelligence organization with tentacles that reach to an island off the coast of Venezuela.  Farnsworth suggests much more than he tells in stories that sit on the edge of a barely visible, deadly and forbidden territory that twisted systems have created by policy to protect the guilty.

Private Investigator John Fulghum knows it is more than good fortune that brings a beautiful, intelligent Korean woman to his seedy second-story office above Joe’s Malt Shop. The executive assistant and unlikely wife of a wealthy Boston centenarian - that just happens to be a Korean War hero, and now a murder victim - Kim Su Baek spins Fulghum an incredible tale with roots in the ancient Korean royal family. Yet Fulghum believes her incredible tale and accepts the case to prove her innocent of murder. To solve this case and exonerate his client, the Jack Daniels-loving gumshoe’s investigation must balance relationships among his Pulitzer-Prize winning girlfriend/reporter, Sylvia Blackwood; his friends - Boston Homicide Officer, Nigel Pounce, and CIA Agent, Ken Salamander; and his client, as they become drawn into a deadly labyrinth designed by both sides of the conflict on the Korean peninsula.  The plot finally focuses on a plethora of suspects at the deceased man’s estate in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The murky intrigue of this case causes a nail-biting succession of horrific deaths, culminating in attempts on the very lives of all our major characters. Who will survive and who is guilty? E. W. Farnsworth, creator of the John Fulghum Mysteries series, a noir detective collection of short stories, presents Blue Is for Murder, John Fulghum Mysteries, Vol. III, his first full-blown John Fulghum novel. His fans, clamoring for more John Fulghum, are thrilled to know that two more novels are coming soon.

Private Investigator John Fulghum knows it is more than good fortune that brings a beautiful, intelligent Korean woman to his seedy second-story office above Joe’s Malt Shop. The executive assistant and unlikely wife of a wealthy Boston centenarian - that just happens to be a Korean War hero, and now a murder victim - Kim Su Baek spins Fulghum an incredible tale with roots in the ancient Korean royal family. Yet Fulghum believes her incredible tale and accepts the case to prove her innocent of murder. To solve this case and exonerate his client, the Jack Daniels-loving gumshoe’s investigation must balance relationships among his Pulitzer-Prize winning girlfriend/reporter, Sylvia Blackwood; his friends - Boston Homicide Officer, Nigel Pounce, and CIA Agent, Ken Salamander; and his client, as they become drawn into a deadly labyrinth designed by both sides of the conflict on the Korean peninsula.  The plot finally focuses on a plethora of suspects at the deceased man’s estate in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The murky intrigue of this case causes a nail-biting succession of horrific deaths, culminating in attempts on the very lives of all our major characters. Who will survive and who is guilty? E. W. Farnsworth, creator of the John Fulghum Mysteries series, a noir detective collection of short stories, presents Blue Is for Murder, John Fulghum Mysteries, Vol. III, his first full-blown John Fulghum novel. His fans, clamoring for more John Fulghum, are thrilled to know that two more novels are coming soon.

John Fulghum, a Boston area Private Investigator, is at it again in E. W. Farnsworth's latest collection of titillating noiresque detective stories. Fulghum once again relies heavily on his close friend, Nigel Pounce, of the Boston Police Homicide Department, along with long-time associate in the CIA, Ken Mander, to get to bottom of the gruesome task of solving unsolvable mysteries.  Along the way, Fulghum's sweetheart at the Boston Globe, Sylvia Blackwood, pulls some strings and helps him investigate his complex cases.  In John Fulghum Mysteries, Vol. VI,  you will find the first two exciting tales E. W. Farnsworth ever wrote about the noir detective, John Fulghum, PI, - The Horse Lady Murders, and A Horse for Christmas.  In addition to these short stories there is also a novella, Case of the VP Murder, that investigates the breakthrough use of robotics along with artificial intelligence in detective work. 

Finding Harry Diamond, John Fulghum Mysteries, Volume V continues with the intriguing exploits of hard-boiled Boston area private investigator, John Fulghum.  Fulghum must track down Harry Diamond, an infamous and ruthlessly effective CIA assassin, before the man decides to make Fulghum his next target.  Tracking down his 'double' with the help of his friend, CIA agent Ken Mander, leads Fulghum into close quarters with beautiful women, secret engagements with the Mob, and the horrors of advanced black technology that can get a man killed just for holding a thumb drive.   E. W. Farnsworth continues to write John Fulghum, PI mysteries. In John Fulghum Mysteries, Volume VI, he returns to the tradition of a short story collection. 

When a former war buddy talks John Fulghum, a Boston area Private Investigator, into providing security analysis for the partnership of the Houbara Bustard Preserve, located a few miles north of Nothing, Arizona on the road from Phoenix to Las Vegas, he knows it won't be an ordinary gig. After convincing two old friends—Sylvia Blackwood and Darcy Latimere—to help him out, he discovers the exclusive resort is actually the venue for a Weapons of Mass Destruction terrorist operation aimed at America.   Fulghum's old friend, Ken Mander of the CIA, gets involved to bring down the terrorists and deal with the WMD while the detective and his friends are joined by his former intelligence contact Alia, who is now the fourth wife to the leading terrorist. Will Fulghum save the day yet again, or will the stay at the luxiourous spa be the end of him?  "Farnsworth has ripped his story from the media headlines with a credible plot out of his own experience, that may hold more truth than classification issues will permit to be divulged." "E. W. Farnsworth, an Arizona writer, has produced a blockbuster thriller with elements of romance and terror, set mostly in a billionaires' spa for falconers to hunt the delicious fowl, the houbara bustard, and for Arab sheiks to exercise racehorses, bred for desert conditions."  The seventh in Farnsworth's John Fulghum, PI, Mysteries, series, Just North of Nothing is written for film adaptation.  It brings Fulghum and his associates together in a fast-paced, tersely-plotted nail-biter with lots of local Arizona and Nevada color, including the Mafia, and corrupt local law enforcement.