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    The Mystery Books of Gene Grossman: Summaries with the Author's Comments
    The Mystery Books of Gene Grossman: Summaries with the Author's Comments
    The Mystery Books of Gene Grossman: Summaries with the Author's Comments
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    The Mystery Books of Gene Grossman: Summaries with the Author's Comments

    By Gene Grossman

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    Gene Grossman, author of the popular15-book set of Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries, and the 5-book Suzi B. Mysteries would like to allow prospective readers to see his 20 mystery titles in one convenient location, where they can view all of the books’ covers, see brief summaries, and read the first chapters of each – all at absolutely no cost.

    Also included are the author’s personal comments about the books, including real people the characters were named for and/or based on, similar true situations that were influential in creation of plot segments, and other matters considered during the writing processes.

    Both mystery fans and prospective writers will enjoy this free eBook, to familiarize themselves not only with the small group of continuing characters and various solutions in the Peter Sharp and Suzi B. Legal Mysteries, but also in the thoughts and considerations of the author.

    Another feature is a complete descriptive listing of non-fiction titles by Mr. Grossman, including his popular award-winning “Celestial Navigation for the Complete Idiot” plus topics covering the practice of law, writing a mystery novel, deposition preparation, and others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMagic Lamp Press
    Release dateMay 22, 2013
    ISBN9781301809059
    The Mystery Books of Gene Grossman: Summaries with the Author's Comments
    Author

    Gene Grossman

    GENE GROSSMAN was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the North side neighborhood of Albany Park, where he attended Hibbard Elementary and Von Steuben High School.He pursued majors in psychology, chemistry and mathematics at Wright Junior College, Roosevelt University and Illinois Institute of Technology - all the while working his way through high school and college by playing piano in clubs on Chicago's then-famous "Rush Street."After moving to Southern California, he worked his way through law school playing piano in night clubs and appeared as a musician in seven major motion pictures.While slowly building his law practice, Gene purchased a truckload of movie equipment he rented out to film production companies and then started his own production company which over the years produced more than 50 educational programs on subjects ranting from Boating and Celestial Navigation, to legal subjects (Depositions, Bankruptcy, etc.) Sign Language Instruction and many more.Always having been interested in boating, getting divorced prompted him to buy and move onto a 45-foot Chris Craft motor yacht in Marina del Rey California,.Years later, while serving as navigator on a yacht delivery from the U.S. to Tortola, Gene wrote his first book, "Celestial Navigation for Dummies" (before the popular series of 'Dummies' books was created). He used his own production equipment to shoot a video on the subject Celestial Navigation - "Sextant Use and the Sun Noon Shot" and unintentionally started the nautical video industry in this country.Over the next few years he followed that first title up with more than 50 other educational DVD titles, all displayed on his production company's website at www.MagicLampDVDs.com.Having moved on from doing scripts for his video productions, Gene turned to writing fiction, and now spends most of his time in the marina on his new boat, where he created the 15-book series of 'Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries,' all now available both in print and as eBooks at Smashwords via www.LegalMystery.comIn addition to the 15 Peter Sharp novels, Gene compiled a group of fiction and non-fiction titles that he has either written or edited for others, plus some classic stories: the publishing company he formed (www.MagicLampPress.com) now has more than 60 books in print.The Peter Sharp Legal Mystery Series#1: Single Jeopardy#2: ...By Reason of Sanity#3: A Class Action#4: Conspiracy of Innocence#5: ...Until Proven Innocent#6: The Common Law#7: The Magician's Legacy#8: The Reluctant Jurist#9: The Final Case#10: An Element of Peril#11: A Good Alibi#12: Legally Dead#13: How to Rob a Bank#14: Murder Under Way#15: The Sherlock Holmes CaperThe Suzi B. Mystery Series (a spin-off)#1: ...Sorry, Wrong Number#2: Movie Magic#3: Two Perfect Crimes#4: He's the Guy#5: The Magic BulletsAll 20 of Gene's mysteries are described in detail in a free eBook: The Mystery Books of Gene Grossman: Summaries with the Author's Comments.

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      The Mystery Books of Gene Grossman - Gene Grossman

      Introduction

      I would like to take this opportunity to thank former President George W. Bush for the start of my writing career, because without his starting a war with Iraq, my series of Legal Mysteries might never have been written.

      Being an avid boating enthusiast for many years, in 1981 I created the nautical video industry by writing, producing, directing and ‘starring’ in a 2-hour production entitled Celestial Navigation: Sextant Use and the Sun Noon Shot.

      The program was quite successful, surely due in part to the fact that at that time there was absolutely no competition.

      The next program was on Coastal Piloting: Navigating Within Sight of Land, and during the next 20 years I cranked out another 20 or 30 programs and did video operation guides for the new electronics that came on the marked (Loran, Sat-Nav, GPS, etc.).

      The only time that boat owners take the time to watch videos about their favorite pastime is usually when there’s nothing else on television that interests them as much, so we sold quite a few videos during the next two decades – until something else caught their attention – and then the nautical video industry went directly into the dumper because during the first few months of 2003the whole world was watching television news to be sure they wouldn’t miss the beginning of our war against Iraq, which started in March of that year… and all of the press conferences, interviews and guessing when the war would start wound up being the best lead-in any television special could ever receive: and then the Iraq War debuted in March of 2003, to great ratings.

      At that period of time I was still acting as order-filler and shipping clerk for the videos (already transitioning into the DVD format), and when people became transfixed with Iraq, there were almost no orders and I had plenty of time on my hands. Being a retired trial attorney, I finally had a chance to catch up on my reading of the types of books that got me interested in going to law school: legal thrillers – but to my dismay, discovered that the genre didn’t thrill me the way it used to when I was a law student. Spending those 20 years actually doing it instead of just reading about it must have jaded my thrill sensors. I thought that knowing a little more about what the attorneys did behind the scenes might be a little more interesting to readers.

      Also at that time, television had a new crop of criminal procedural shows like CSI, and people seemed very interested in seeing what allegedly went on behind the scenes, so I thought that the same principle might apply to shows (or books, in my case) that revealed the same routine of procedures and at the same time educated people about the law, so I started outlining my

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