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Police chief Hayden Konig is a lucky man. He s wealthy, he enjoys his work, he has a loving wife, good friends, and lives in the quaintest, most picturesque town in the North Carolina mountains. With all this going for him, you d think he d be satisfied. He's not. He longs to be a writer, a hard-boiled, noir detective word-slinger worthy of the 1939 Underwood No. 5 sitting on his desk a typewriter once owned by Raymond Chandler. You'd think a machine like this would help. It doesn't. As a detective, Chief Konig is at the top of his game. As the organist at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, he can play with the best of them. But as a writer, Hayden produces more bad prose than the St. Germaine Garden Club s annual poetry review. "The knob turned, the door creaked, and trouble spilled into the room, trouble spelled with a capital D -- no, not Drouble, even though that might make more sense except that Drouble isn't a word, so not really: capital D, small a, small m, small e (a Dame) but, come to think of it, a small d would work just as well since she wasn't proper at all and didn't even try to begin a sentence." What do the bones of an ancient king, a scoodle of skunks, a farm auction,
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- Author
- Schweizer, Mark
- Publisher
- St. James Music Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780984484607
- Category
- humor
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.19 / 5 (192 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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