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Mr. Dillon, Mr. Dillon. Somebody Done Got Kilt! Dodge City, Kansas was a major rail hub for shipping cattle to market in Kansas City and Chicago during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It lies in south central Kansas on the Arkansas River and the old Santa Fe Trail. The radio and television program, Gunsmoke, was created there. Today's sleepy remnant of that once bustling western town hosts a replica of Old Dodge with live re-enactors playing Marshall Dillon and his friends, Chester, Doc, and Kitty. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear as Bordeau and Bristol arrive in ...

Nate's My Name and Traveling's My Game I like shiny eighteen-wheelers, but I never thought I’d spend three days in one exploring Canada. My dog, Cody, and I unexpectedly woke up in Big Red, a Peterbilt big rig, and traveled by ferry to a dozen cities in British Columbia. Join Cody and me on our adventure to see British Columbia.

Give Me Some Iron and I'll Give You an Ice Age Bordeau and Bristol are requested to assist the New Orleans Police Department investigate why two helicopters carrying graduate students to oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico have mysteriously crashed killing five people. Suspicions are raised that the crashes were not accidental. The students were working on a National Science Foundation grant designed to solve global warming by seeding the Gulf with iron and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Rumours are circulating among the maritime community and local environmentalists that the ...

Pearls Aren't for Kids A young Chinese boy by the name of Wong Chun Li accompanies his parents to Hawaii where his father plans to purchase the Outrigger Reef on the Beach Hotel. His father takes him to watch pearl divers and buy a string of pearls. The boy associates the pearls with the Hawaiian Islands and as he presents the gift to his mother says, “We have conquered the Islands of Hawaii for you.” Forty years later Bordeau and Bristol are asked to assist an intelligence officer with SUBPAC, Hawaii to investigate the murder of a radio operator on the attack submarine USS NORTH ...

Fly Me to the Moon Hana's a sixth grader at the Tree of Life Preparatory School in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She and her friend, Phillip have taken an interest in NASA's space program because of Mrs. Livingston's science class. They went to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC together with her dad and got to met James Lovell an astronaut on the Apollo Eight and Thirteen Missions. Because of her increasing interest in space she went to Space Camp and then to the Kennedy Space Center. Come with Hana as she meets new friends and experiences what space is like.

He Will Have Two Horns Like a Lamb Renaldo, the childhood friend of Maurice Bordeau, recently became a Cardinal at the Vatican. He asks Bordeau and his detective agency to help investigate activities in the Vatican to see if there's any truth to the rumors that Pope Francis is organizing a global political/religious federation. Unfortunately, the rumors seem to be true. The Pope is building a robotic creature, called the Beast, and creating a biometric financial system called Diablo that mirrors some of the frightening scenarios of the End Times prophesied in the Bible. Renaldo asks Bordeau...

Empires Come and Go. Will This One Be the Last? Maurice Bordeau and his team of investigators are returning home to London after touring America, Europe, and Israel for eighteen months of sabbatical leave from Scotland Yard. Before Bordeau and Bristol get settled they're assigned to investigate an attempted shooting of Prince Charles as he was horseback riding in Hyde Park. Horatio Hornbladt, Chief Investigator with MI6, joins them to meet with the Prince and provides preliminary information that he's already uncovered. Bordeau and Bristol begin their own investigation that finds an ...

Damn the Torpedoes. Full Speed Ahead! The Mediterranean recently became an active war zone. Russia bolstered its naval fleet on the coast of Syria north of Beirut and in the Black Sea to support its invasion of Ukraine. Newly promoted Captain Dan Phillips just reported to duty aboard the USS Harry S. Truman as the new Information Warfare Officer for NATO whose job was to coordinate exercises for Strike Force 8 based in Naples. The exercises had barely begun when Russia cut off its oil flowing to Europe when an LNG tanker loaded with gas from a new source in Israel was sunk by a Russian ...

Chairmen Don’t Die, Just Lose their Faculties Bodies of professors from UCLA are turning up in strange places - one in the Le Brea Tar Pits in central LA, another at the Getty Villa near Malibu, and a third in the Avalon Ballroom on Catalina. The second and third were posed to represent some bizarre parody of the victim's teaching specialty. Bordeau and Bristol are requested by their friend, Professor Bixler, Chairman of the UCLA History Department, to assist the LAPD investigate who's killing off members of his department and why. The motive is difficult to determine and, as the clues ...

Did Katy Do It? The Katy Trail is a state park that runs about 250 miles along part of the Missouri River from Kansas City to St. Louis. It's a hiking/biking trail that was converted from the old Missouri/Kansas/Texas Railroad. The trail crosses the Missouri River at Boonville, Missouri, a river town named for the sons of Daniel Boone who retired near St. Louis. Bordeau and Bristol are requested by an FBI agent and one of his former students at Scotland Yard to investigate the disappearance of a biker traveling the Katy Trail. The case leads to the discovery of a series of murders that ...

Masada Shall Never Fall Again The B4 Detective Agency has free time between murder investigations during a three-week visit to the Holy Land. Stacie Schlomo, an Israeli Mossad Agent who helped hire Bordeau as a consultant offers to take his team to tour the Masada National Monument. While Bordeau's team is at the historical site a large group of Orthodox Jews in black, remove all tourists from the mountain to stage a protest. Stacie's small tour group is overlooked and swept up in the protest. They help recover the body of a fallen tourist, treat the head protestors for wounds, and capture ...

Fires plague California, but now they seem to be turning the Golden State black. Jack Wilson watches fires char the hillsides around him in Santee, California until one approaches his home. He's forced to load up his family and seek refuge in Palm Springs when he discovers that the inferno was only a short distance away in a fifty-mile-per-hour wind. The smoke and flame of the Julian Fire was not done with him yet, but continued to chase his family for several more days. Did his home survive? Will he stay in California when firestorms continue to chase him?

Alas, poor Charles, I knew you well. Bordeau and Bristol have arrived in London after traveling for a year in America. They return home with not only many wonderful memories but two wives. They met Katherine, Bordeau's wife, and Cindy, Bristol's wife in Dodge City, Kansas the previous summer as they were heading back to England. They were married by the captain of the Queen Mary on their way from New York to London and are now jockeying for dominance in their new relationships. At the same time Bordeau and Bristol are asked to solve murders at Westminster Abbey and a break-in at the ...

Seniors are dying at the Brookside Senior Living Center in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. This is not unusual, but the rate has doubled in the last six months. One or two retirees are now dying each week. The executive director reports to the police that someone appears to be helping the grim reaper harvest his crop more quickly than expected. Chief Detective Bradley requests his friend and celebrated international investigator, Maurice Bordeau, and his confidante, Anthony Bristol, to take a break from their train tour across America and assist him to find the murderer.

Starbuck is a Rainmaker, not Coffee. A rainmaker with the name of Starbuck in a movie from the '50s starring Burt Lancaster and Katherine Hepburn arrives in a small western town and, for a fee, offers to end a drought that's plaguing the ranchers and farmers. He offers to seed the clouds with his secret chemicals. Starbuck is a bigger than life figure who promises, "Rain in buckets, rain in barrels, rain in the lowlands, flood in the gullies, and the land will be as green as the Valley of Adam." Starbuck, a swindler and charlatan, eventually brings rain to the parched land and hope to a ...

Around the World in 80 weeks Pete's dad sailed around the world with his grandparents in the 50-foot sloop still stored next door in their yard. They don't plan to make the trip again and grandpa Langston has agreed to sell her to Mike Dempsey, a businessman and experienced sailor from Anacortes, Washington. Mike needs a three-man crew to sail her and has offered the position of Yeoman to Pete. After a year of restoration and several run-ups Expeditious is ready for the open sea. Join Pete as he sails to the watery part of the world.

An Exciting Life Requires the Right Hat. Larry led nine lives - Air Force officer, graduate student, cloud seeder, research scientist, college professor, science writer, creationist speaker, tour guide, and novelist. Each of these careers provided unique tales that are begging to be told. Larry's Tales is a compilation of adventures most readers would prefer to experience from the safety of their easy chair; experiences shared with friends to exciting destinations; and favorite jokes. A few stories are humorous, some embarrassing, and others downright scary. At the end of this collection of...

Danny and Lucy Bishop, a husband and wife team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, were vacationing in Key West, Florida. They noticed that a hurricane named Zelda just off the coast of Florida was acting very strangely. It was traveling in loops not far from their hotel. They decided to call up a friend in the National Weather Service and get permission to fly on the next Hurricane Hunter flight to see what was going on. This led to an international adventure of flying on multiple planes and advising the President about heat beams.

Danny and Lucy Bishop, a husband and wife team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, were vacationing in Key West, Florida. They noticed that a hurricane named Zelda just off the coast of Florida was acting very strangely. It was traveling in loops not far from their hotel. They decided to call up a friend in the National Weather Service and get permission to fly on the next Hurricane Hunter to see what was going on, This led to an international adventure of flying on multiple planes and advising the President on heat beam warfare.