Sanford Emerson

Well, Hell (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Do you like eccentric characters? Rural settings? Weird crimes? Welcome to the world of Bobby Wing, Constable, Fence Viewer, Deputy Fire Warden and Animal Control Officer of Skedaddle Gore, Maine.

To quote Bobby, "the job only pays minimum wage and mileage but it isn't real taxing timewise and the extra income helps covers my tab down at Sally's Motel and Bar and Live Bait and Convenience Store. Jake Beaverstool, the First Assessor, explained that they just needed somebody in town to handle the 'little things' that come up from time to time. You know, the minor annoyances that aren't important enough to call the sheriff or the state police, who usually arrive with a jeezley big commotion and get folks all worked up.

"The job sounded like it might be fun so I said yes after thinking it over for all of about two minutes. After I took the oath of office from the Town Clerk, they explained that they didn't want me carrying a badge or a gun and 'for God's sake, no arresting people.' That wouldn't be legal unless I went to the police academy in Vassalboro, which would be time consuming and expensive for the town. Luckily I haven't needed to arrest-or shoot-anybody so far, so that part's been working out."

Bobby's "yarns" are humorous stories of murder, romance, mystery, redemption, adventure, reluctant derring-do and the wages of sin. They run the gamut from a severed head beside the road through a mysterious mute hermit with a pet wolf to a blood drenched body on a ski lift, with plenty of local color along the way.

Sanford Emerson's short stories have appeared in Best New England Crime Stories in 2015, 2016, and 2017. He has also been published in Down East Magazine. This is his first full-length fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kathy Lynn Emerson
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215885222
• Artikelnr.: 65731538

Autorenporträt

Sanford Emerson is a native Maine-iac and "boomer" who came of age in the 1960's and still remembers most of it. He is a graduate of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, mostly through the efforts of his college sweetheart, who he credits with inducing him to actually study by using subtle hints and tempting promises. Two weeks after graduation they were married, even though she was "from away." Returning to the real world, Sandy did a stretch in the Navy followed by a thirty-five-year law enforcement career in the mountains of western Maine, during which he wrote mostly non-fiction in the form of police reports, pre-sentence investigations and proposals to his superiors for improvements to the profession which went mostly nowhere.

These days Sandy lives in Wilton, Maine on a former christmas tree farm with his lovely and talented wife and a slightly psychotic cat who thinks he is a real numbskull. Oh, and he also runs a woodworking business in his spare time, but then nearly every old retiree in Maine does that.