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Jerry Lien's Work
Jerry grew up traveling as an Air Force brat (yes, that is what he calls himself). Started writing late in life and even tried a few different genre's, but the series we are publishing here needed writing and wouldn't let him rest. Married to the same woman for 34 years, he hopes that becoming a famous author doesn't give him the same problems it has for other authors (none of ours). They have one daughter. Due to these stories demanding to be told Jerry presents The Dan Muncie Mystery Series
Alexis
Erika is a beautiful young dancer, but is she self-destructing? That is the question for private eye Dan Muncie when he starts his investigation, but it soon gets lost in the bigger mystery of what has happened to the lovely young woman. Was she or was she not kidnapped early one morning?
If that weren’t enough, Dan also has to try to prove that Alexis Brogan has arranged for his help in setting up her husband for murder, committed by the mistress he had just proven exists. Dan doesn’t like being used, especially to help “justify” a murder!Erika is a dancer at the Naked Maja, Dan Muncie’s favorite club. The owner likes to take care of his “chicks,” and asks Dan to check on her, to make sure that she isn’t getting involved in things she shouldn’t be.
At the same time Dan is hired to check on a husband, to see if he is cheating on his wife. Dan follows the husband, and finds out that he is.
Then things take a bizarre twist, when the dancer turns up missing, and the wayward husband is shot to death by his mistress. If that weren’t enough, Dan finds out that Alexis Brogan, the dead man’s wife, has a lover of her own.
It takes some work, and more than a little luck, but Dan finds Erika. She is being held prisoner by an escaped convict. Since there may be a second victim as well, Dan calls in the police, and Erika is rescued. Unfortunately, the other victim is already dead, and has been for some time.
Then Dan gets to concentrate on the murder case. By now he knows that the wife’s lover is the executive vice-president (James Casey) of the dead husband’s company, and he has now been chosen by her to run the company. This is way too cozy for Dan. He begins doing research and soon finds that neither Casey nor Cari are what they seem.
Casey’s real background doesn’t match his “official” biography. Then Dan gets a former girlfriend who is an expert on dialects to listen to Cari, and she determines that Cari was from the Pittsburgh area of Pennsylvania. This was interesting since Casey had spent time in the same area. Dan has also found out that Cari was not Cari, since checking out her birth certificate against the original revealed that the certificate was issued for a black child who died nine months later.
Next he finds out that Casey has been spending at least as much time with Cari as with Alexis. He then finds out Cary is really Lisa Brown, from Pittsburgh, a girl with a record. After that he meets one of Alexis’s former lovers and Ed’s former secretary. They both fill in many blanks.
Then comes a key piece of information. The gun used to shoot Brogan was originally purchased by James Casey’s brother. Before long more information comes in, showing clearly that this was a conspiracy of murder right from the start.- $9.95
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Bettina
Bettina came to Dan Muncie with a problem that was driving her crazy. She believed that she had witnessed a murder from her hotel room while in town on a business trip, yet no murder is ever reported. Had she been imagining things?Or had she really seen a woman being murdered that dark night?Even more important, since someone had tampered with her car’s brakes, was she the killer’s next target?Bettina Gregory showed up in Dan Muncie’s office completely worn out. Two months before she had seen something, but she wasn’t certain if it was a murder, or something less sinister. But the cut brake line on her car was very real, and it scared her very badly.Now she was looking for confirmation about what she saw. Dan takes the case a little reluctantly at first, but before long it becomes clear that someone had tried to kill Bettina. Even worse, he had to assume she was still a target. So Dan has to not only identify who the killer is, but find them before the killer can kill his client.As Dan begins his investigation he discovers that this was no random event. The woman Bettina saw being murdered was a prostitute, the latest in a string of prostitute murders. Dan works with the police, doing what they cannot do, and by chance he is instrumental in the capture of the murderer.But then there is a surprise. While the killer easily admits to killing ten prostitutes over the last two plus years, he has no idea who Bettina Gregory is. Dan comes to the reluctant conclusion that someone else is trying to kill Bettina. He finds out that she had mentioned the incident to someone at the company that hired her to do some design work. He gets someone to contact there, and she tells him about some of the people who work there.Yet it turns out that it is the president of the company who has his main interest. He is recently divorced, and spending time with the widow of a man who had been killed in a car wreck just three months before. Dan finds the timing of the husband’s death, just days after the divorce becomes final. Some work leads to the evidence they need, b but then there is the shocking finale.- $9.95
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Danielle - A Dan Muncie Mystery
Danielle Evers is a slut, a street-wise kid of 24 who has been accused of murder. Dan Muncie has been asked to investigate the case, to chase leads the police are supposedly ignoring. He takes the case, but while he doesn’t think she committed the murder, he does have his own doubts about her innocence.Still, one thing is clear. While he has only been hired to prove she did not kill the murder victim, the best way to prove it is to find out who did!Dan Muncie takes the case mainly as a favor to a friend, a lawyer given the task of defending a young woman of what appears to be an open-and-shut case of murder. The fact that the woman in question dances nude for a living is definitely a complication, as is her whole sluttish, anti-establishment attitude.Still, once the accepts the case he works it to the best of his ability. It looks like a tough case, but he starts making progress. He soon discovers that the victim had gotten some books that would get a local gangster, Harry David, in serious trouble with his boss, Greg Brazelton, and with the police. That seems to be the true reason for the murder.Along the way he gets involved in stopping a conman going after women working for some banks where he wants to steal information on their customers. It is successful, and the conman is not only arrested, but in a way that makes the victims look good instead of like co-conspirators.Then, with the conman out of the way, Dan gets back to clearing Danielle of the murder charge. Soon he shows that it was Harry David who killed the dead man, and gives the police proof of his activities.The police go after David and Brazelton, but in the end the case comes to an end when Dan is forced to kill Brazelton in a restaurant parking lot.- $9.95
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Emily - A Dan Muncie Mystery
When Emily Laffey comes to Dan Muncie she wants him to find her husband, missing for three months. But Dan quickly has other questions. Did her husband skip, or is he dead? If he is dead, is she a widow, or perhaps a black widow?
By the time Dan finds what is left of Don Laffey he has no doubt that Laffey was murdered. There are just too many things that don’t fit. For one thing, when he does some research on Emily Laffey he finds that she is a woman with no past.
Literally.Emily Laffey comes to Dan Muncie and tells him that her estranged husband, Don, had disappeared three months before. She would like to find him, but cannot do it for herself. Dan takes the case, but things quickly start to look wrong. For one thing, while his disappearance was reported to the police, that was done by his co-workers, not is wife.
The possibility that he had just left becomes unlikely when it turns out that Don had left his possessions in his apartment. While Emily had taken possession of most of them, she had refused to take his firearms, including a rifle with considerable sentimental value. Dan takes them, but ominously finds that a 9mm handgun is missing.Chance helps Dan find the body quickly, under circumstances where he is convinced that Don Laffey was murdered. This offends Dan. He does not like being used to help a murderer get the body discovered, even though it is intended to look like a suicide. He explains his reasoning to the sheriff’s detectives who come in, and they agree with him. They also agree to his request to hide their murder investigation under the cover of the regular look they would have at a suspected suicide.After that Dan goes to work. He starts by returning the down payment Emily had given him and taking the firearms as his fee. Then he starts his investigation seriously. While he cannot trace Emily’s past beyond four years, he has met a ‘friend’ of Emily’s, one Helen Baines, and he is able to trace her past. Using the friend as a starting point, he is able to reconstruct Emily’s past, right back to her high school days when she was known as Michelle Roberts, and to when she was in the state capital of Newchester under the name of Lucy Bond.Until she became Lucy Purvis, that is. But even more interesting is that Winston Purvis was also separated from his wife, and also was an apparent suicide. The police have always been suspicious, but had nothing to show that it could be anything else, especially since wife Lucy was elsewhere when Winston died. But then, the Newchester police did not know about Lucy’s friend Helen. The case is reopened.As is another case, the supposed accidental death of Michelle’s boyfriend in college. Did he or did he not lose his balance on some marbles and go head first out the window of his fifth floor dorm room?And what about the proof Dan finds that the “unskilled” and thus unemployed Emily Laffey has actually had a very successful career as a highly paid call girl?There is far more to Emily Laffey than met the eye, and Dan is delighted to be able to help prove that she had indeed shot her husband in the head.- $9.95
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