Mystery and History

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...

Blog from Long Pursuit, Ch 1, p.1 Mickey Mathews, All-American November 26, 2022 Mickey Mathews’ flight on the DC-3 settled onto the...

Blog from California Redwoods, Chapter 11, “Eureka, the Clarkston Family, and the Investigation” A double knock came to the door. Mickey...

Blog Item – California Redwoods, Chapter 6, “Back Bay and Blackmail”: Looking at the snapshot again, Mickey checked the back. “Hopefully...

Blog Item – California Redwoods #2 October 12, 2022 Mickey Mathews, the celebrated novelist and investigative writer, took on a cold case...