Mystery and History

Teen Targets is the sequel to Teen Spies, my Young Adult mystery novel co-authored by our granddaughter Audrey Deichmann. Set in World War II era Charlottesville in the spring of 1943, the son of Otto Herman searches for the teenagers that killed his father a year earlier: … When I entered Nat’s room, she gave me the silent sign, a forefinger to the lips, and handed me a folded page. “Read this letter I just received from Karl Ellis, who lives in New York City.” When I looked

Teen Spies is my Young Adult mystery novel co-authored by our granddaughter Audrey Deichmann. James Baker and his sister Natalia, living on the family farm near Charlottesville in 1942, discover there are Nazi agents living next door. … The big agent had a craggy face, a wide chin, and a dominant manner. His eyes pierced my thoughts like spears. What came to mind was He’s the US government. I sure hope our story is going to be important enough for him to help us. “Miss Smit

From Teen Spies, my Young Adult mystery co-autored by our granddaughter Audrey Deichmann and first published in 2024 by Doce Blant Publishing: … We climbed the two steps to his [Otto Herman’s] veranda. It was painted black and ran the width of the house. Crossing it, I knocked on the front door. The door was red with a triangular peep window trimmed with gold molding. If I remember what we learned about Germany, their flag was a black, red, and gold tricolor. We waited, but n

Blog item from Brotherly Love, Chapter 1, pages 6-8: Going back inside the house, Frank Tuttle walked through the blue-walled living room into the bright white kitchen. He checked the calendar taped to the refrigerator. It was Thursday, May 9. Outside, a breeze ruffled leaves on the trees. The day felt cool as the temperature hovered in the mid-60s. A horn beeped on the street. A dog barked a few doors away. Ike, Frank’s large black and brown military-trained German shepherd,

April 12, 2025 California Redwoods & Sara Clarkston: Mickey Mathews flew to California in late 1945 to help cousins Chet and Sara...

Blog from The Frightened Physicists , pages 4-5: For those of you who have read at least one of my mystery novels, maybe you hoped to...

March 22, 2025 Receiving a phone call on the last Tuesday evening in March 1945, Frank Tuttle, the retired Amy Major and best friend of...

Blog 2 for Teen Spies: Teen Spies, Ch 6, pages 65-66: Again I took my batting stance, and without a pause, Derek [Miller] took his windup...

Blog for Teen Spies: Teen Spies, Ch 2, page 17: We turned into Mister Herman’s driveway. He’s a widower. His wife away passed from...

July 7, 2024 Brotherly Love, Ch 5, page 75-76: Within ten minutes of the smugglers’ rig double-parking on the side street, Mickey...

Brotherly Love, from Ch 3, “Family Matters”: August 28, 2023 In May 1946, the FBI, working with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,...

Blog from California Redwoods, Chapter 12, “Women in Hiding, pp 229-231” August 11, 2023 … Lorenzo Goodfield turned to his son. “Tell...

Blog for forthcoming Brotherly Love: July 26, 2023 For readers of my Mickey Mathews mysteries, here is the back cover Blurb for Brotherly...

Blog for [By David Hillman] June 16, 2023 Prior to its publication later in 2023 my friend Jim Sargent sent his latest novel, Brotherly...

Blog: Shadow of the Hawk, Ch 8, “On Whitefish Bay” (pp 144-145) At that moment two things happened. The cruiser’s chugging engines...

Blog from Long Pursuit, ch 4, “Mickey Meets Tommy Jefferson”: Jim Sargent Mickey, wearing a blue suit, white dress shirt, and his...

Blog from Frightened Physicists, Chapter 4, “Train to Philadelphia,” pages 59-60 January 18, 2023 In the summer of 1945, Mickey Mathews,...

Blog from California Redwoods, Chapter 13, On Humboldt Bay, pages 247-248 January 1, 2023 He hit Lydia so hard that her head snapped...

Blog from Final Secret, Ch 5, pp. 72-73, Bombs from the Rising Sun December 6, 2022 The waiter [in Honolulu] held her chair, and Patty...

Blog: Shadow of the Hawk, Ch 5, “Sault Ste. Marie,” pp. 86-97 November 29, 2022 “Frank and me are working with the FBI on a major...