Bøker av Rod Sterling

On Halloween in 1777, the night of a blue moon, a Hessian cavalryman lost his head to an American three-pound cannon ball. He is said to ride in search of his missing head 'when the moon is full and the sky is clear.' But not in Sleepy Hollow. Washington Irving heard the story while staying at an inn in New Jersey and employed literary license to relocate the story. A paratrooper hero of D-Day survives the war in one piece only to be beheaded by the evil spirits in his home town - or was he? While being initiated into a secret society, George Panabaker must spend the night on a so-called haunted bridge. The next morning his body is identified only by the Airborne tattoo on his arm because his head is missing. The locals hush it up to avoid negative publicity. As a result, George's paratrooper buddy - private detective Tony Donohoo - does not learn of the death for eight years. George's younger brother hires Tony to get to the bottom of who actually killed his brother. Tony enlists the aid of his beautiful, but sarcastic red-haired girlfriend, Mindy McCall. Together they work to unravel the secret of who actually killed George Panabaker and why. In so doing, they must combat not only the local sheriff, but also community leaders who have something to conceal. Tony and Mindy narrowly escape death by the headless rider themselves, but ultimately prevail, culminating in a wild midnight chase of the spirit on horseback.

It's 1956 and somebody is killing off the high school baseball players from the class of '35 of one New Jersey High School. The police are treating these deaths as unrelated. In the space of a few months, one after another of these former ballplayers, not yet forty years old, are found dead. Private detective Tony Donohoo deciphers a coded message in the yearbooks leading to secret romances and murder. Tony and his sarcastic, but beautiful red-haired girl friend, Mindy McCall, follow the clues.

After meeting the distraught father of a missing teen-aged girl, Private eye Tony Donohoo takes on the case to help a man who once shared the experience of jumping out of an airplane over France on D-Day. The daughter, Rhoda Woodleigh, was a true beauty who people would stop and gaze at as she walked by. It was up to Tony to discover where she had gone and whether or not she had been abducted. Tony makes inquiries with multiple police departments hoping to find similar missing person cases. Most efforts are rebuffed or ignored, but gradually he discovers over two dozen girls - all knockouts - have disappeared from New Jersey or neighboring states. Following the leads, Tony enlists the aid of his sarcastic but beautiful red-haired girlfriend - Mindy, and sends her undercover to try and discover just what was happening to these girls. With illegal wire taps, the involvement of a Mafia capo, and a growing conspiracy swirling around sex and corruption, Tony and Mindy follow the clues to solve the case. The Traffic Stoppers Case is an old-fashioned gum shoe story faithful to the period, and with a sense of authenticity that will appeal to mystery and detective fans.

In 1947, twelve jurors rendered a guilty verdict in a murder trial and a man was sent to the electric chair. Five years later, it's discovered he was innocent and now someone is knocking off one juror after another. Tony and Mindy race to find the killer before all twelve are dead.

THIS IS A NO WHINING ZONE. ""Somebody ought to do something."" Well, somebody is. 25 major problems in the United States are identified but each comes with a common sense solution. For the last sixty years we have been throwing money at every problem that surfaced only to find out that money wasn't the answer. The people have to take the power back from the lobbyists, empty out half our prisoners while holding onto the bad guys, and demand our mainstream media get their integrity back or go out of business. We know who the crazies are that will shoot up a school, theater or mall, but we don't share the information. Every household spends thousands extra each year to reimburse big buisiness for political donations. Political contributions are a business expense, not altruism. They always get their money back. Let's put an end to that. The author never checked with any political camp. Joe Schmoe's solutions are plain everyday common sense. You'll come away with a different point of view.