tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27167111342694924642024-02-20T12:50:45.130-08:00Jack Diamond MysteriesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716711134269492464.post-62701168989456107982014-01-25T15:33:00.002-08:002014-01-25T15:33:41.849-08:00Potential New Development<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Advance info/intel</span> <span style="font-size: large;">coming from the Jack Diamond investigations team indicates the Las Vegas based private eye office is considering</span> <span style="font-size: large;">taking on a new client assignment. A usually reliable source said details may well emerge in either novella form and/or possibly serialized.</span> <span style="font-size: large;">We will post further details here as they becom<span></span>e known. Stay tuned.</span></span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716711134269492464.post-29297373408302601802014-01-23T14:38:00.000-08:002014-01-23T14:38:16.282-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am trying out a new theme for my authors Web page. When you have a minute or two I would appreciate your taking a look. Your comments and suggestions are appreciated.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">Philip</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.jdiamondpi.wordpress.com/">Philip Johnson-Author</a> </span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716711134269492464.post-10367046915034184322014-01-20T13:53:00.000-08:002014-01-20T13:53:02.786-08:002014 Outlook<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">So, we have a new year in front of us with one, possibly two, new Jack Diamond Mystery Adventures slated for release. You can now find more extensive details on my authors page, <a href="http://www.jdiamondpi.woordpress.com/">http://www.jdiamondpi.wordpress.com</a></span>. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For links to the already published eBooks scroll on down. Please note that the Smashwords edition of</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> CAUTION: Tram Approaching</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">is still available for the low price of FREE. This is offered as a cleverly disguised enticement to get you acquainted with the series and the principle characters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Both books are available in all the popular eReader formats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course for all you Kindle/Amazon fans, the Jack Diamond books are available there as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your comments and suggestions are solicited and always welcome. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716711134269492464.post-40197808023128432972012-11-23T10:17:00.002-08:002012-11-26T12:53:46.119-08:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">No Trust Among Thieves</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Jack Diamond Mystery Adventure Series Prequel</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This exciting new eBook is NOW available in all the popular eReader formats and from all the best eBook retailers including B & N, Apple, and directly from Smashwords. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1253700">http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1253700</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Kindle Edition is also now available at Amazon.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://.www.amazon.com/dp/B00A9LG4CS">http://.www.amazon.com/dp/B00A9LG4CS</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is a synopsis of No Trust Among Thieves. As always, the first several pages have been made available for preview at your favorite eBook retailer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black"; font-size: 14.0pt;">No <span style="color: red;">Trust</span> Among
Thieves is the prequel for the Jack Diamond, PI, Mystery Adventure Series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jack
immediately finds himself in the uncomfortable position of being followed while
driving back to his Las Vegas Office from an assignment. More annoyed than
concerned he finally comes into contact with his would be pursuer only to find
the whole incident was not in actuality an incident at all. Except for one very
important aspect; it leads to a complex case of international intrigue with
potential Homeland Security consequences. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">It all
begins as a seemingly straightforward request by an unlikely client to help
recover what he believes may be an inheritance gone missing. In addition to
Homeland Security, the Las Vegas Metro Police, an Idaho District Attorney, as
well as operatives and informants in Singapore and Malaysia and border crossing
officers in British Columbia and the United States get involved. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Most of
the principal characters readers met in the first Jack Diamond Mystery
Adventure eBook, <b>CAUTION: Tram Approaching</b>, are introduced in No Trust
Among Thieves. These include Jack’s long time friend and confidant, Lieutenant
Hank Mathis. Then there is Jack’s own version of a femme fatale, Melissa
Blanchard. Melissa, some twenty plus years his junior presents Jack with an
ever-present emotional dilemma. In short order Melissa develops a strong professional
and an intriguing personal relationship with the private detective. To go any
further with that aspect of the story would be telling way too much. Besides,
it’s a lot more interesting and fun to discover for yourself in the book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">What
about the original perpetrator at the center of the case? It turns out he seems
to have made a career playing the role of an up-standing member of the
community while betraying the trust of those who trusted him the most. His
misdeeds come to an abrupt end as he, naively unaware that anyone is the wiser,
is suddenly interrupted as he attempts to get some rest in a motel room in the
middle of Nevada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">At the
end of the day, a perplexed but persevering Jack Diamond still can’t be certain
of success in recovering the alleged missing inheritance. The network of
pilfering money manipulators who became involved through various nefarious
means are found out as one by one they discover that there is no trust among
thieves and ill gotten riches driven by blind greed seldom have a pleasant
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Jack Diamond Mystery Adventures</h1>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Jack Diamond,
Private Investigator</b>:</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Here’s what we know about Jack from the beginning.
Other details tend to emerge from time to time in his various cases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jack, physique
wise, seems to be about average coming in just shy of 6 feet tall and hovering
around 185 pounds. When we first run into Jack he is in his late 40’s. No
doubt, like all of us, he’ll take on a year or two as he tackles his various
mystery adventure cases. As the years move on so does the hairline. His auburn
brown hair is already beginning to she sign of receding along with a notable
thinning spot on top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jack Diamond is
not known as a womanizer in any manner, just the same certain women appear to
find aspects of his personality attractive and tend to act accordingly. This
alone leads to some interesting situations including a little romantic intrigue
and an unexpected dramatic surprise or two along the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So far as we know,
Jack Diamond has never been married and has no children. Though we never learn
all the circumstances, Jack Apparently inherited a substantial sum of money
while he was in his late 30’s and working as a freelance investigator. The
inheritance allowed him to open his own practice, purchase all the necessary
accruements, some maybe not so necessary, and hang out his shingle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No private eye
would be worth his salt without a quirk or two, principle of among them, Jack’s
chronometer collection. His office is almost to the point of clutter with
timepieces of all types and sizes. Jack is the first to admit that with one
watch you always know what time it is, with as many as he has, you never know
what time it ‘really’ is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jack would never
consider himself a car buff, but he does enjoy good automobiles from the small
sports car variety to four wheel drive SUV’s. When you first meet Jack Diamond
you’ll find him behind the wheel of a black BMW 850 sedan with Nevada sunset
design license vanity plate, LOC8EM. The big white Land Rover with heavy tint
windows sports the plate, LOC8IT. Certainly beats having of those magnetic
advertising signs stuck to the side doors.
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<span style="font-size: large;">We know Jack
Diamond comes originally from the Denver, Colorado area where he attended
school up through university. From time to time more of that aspect of his past
emerge through details in cases. Following college Jack completed his Marine
Corps officer training at Quantico, Virginia. From that point all we really
know thus far is that he was assigned to a special criminal investigation unit
within the Commandant’s office. It was this early experience that established
Jack’s eventual Career path as well as creating any number of contacts that
prove valuable in his solving cases. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Foremost among
Jack’s early professional colleagues is his close personal friend and
confidant, police captain Hank Mathis. Captain Mathis commands the Metropolitan
Police Criminal Investigation Division. In addition to providing Jack with his
official link to law enforcement, a contact which he utilizes frequently, the good
captain is also Jack’s regular coffee buddy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are two
other highly valued information sources that stem from Jack’s Marine Corps CID
days. Jon Steele feeds Jack with a steady stream of generally reliable
information concerning all matters related to transportation. While we find Jon
Steele popping up frequently we really know very little about him or exactly
how he manages to come by the information he provides Jack. This is one of
those cases where Jack would be lost without him and is as curious as we care
about how Jon really works, but he dare not ask. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Andy Thornton is Jack’s key source for all kinds of
information relating to finance and banking matters. Andy play an especially
important role in many of Jack’s investigations that evolve around some aspect
of what is generally regarded as white collar crime. Like Jon Steele, Jack
Diamond protects his sources believing the less he knows about how they come by
the information they provide him the better for everyone involved, except for
the ‘bad guys’ of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Melissa
Blanchard</b>: Otherwise known as ‘Mel’ to Jack Diamond and selected close
friends. We first meet Melissa in ‘A Matter Of Trust’, the first book in the
Jack Diamond series. I think you’ll find Melissa’s character becomes pretty
well described after she enters Jack’s office and leaves him breathless and in
the same condition on he departure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Beside her
stunning physical attributes that find her able to look Jack eye-to-eye then
descending all the way down her perfectly endowed body to her long gorgeous
dancers legs Melissa’s other stats are - - -; Oh yes, Raven hair, dark eyes,
flawless olive skin and a sharp wit and brain to match.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Born: Boonville,
Missouri (She is 20 +- when we first meet her.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Grew up in
Bloomfield, New Jersey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is now a student at the University of Nevada Las
Vegas (UNLV). She was drawn there because of their highly taunted girls dance
squad where her talents resulted in a partial scholarship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SETTING: </b>All
the Jack Diamond Mystery Adventures begin and end in Las Vegas. From there the
adventures come and go around the country and generally to far-flung corners of
the globe as well. Jack’s office building the Bristol Office Park does not
exist neither does his apartment complex. Many of the street names as well as
certain business establishments are real, however they may not be exactly where
they appear in the story. After all, these are works of fiction. </span></div>
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716711134269492464.post-21084362351320091272012-03-29T15:24:00.001-07:002012-03-29T15:24:21.562-07:00<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: white;"><i>Attention Kindle Owners, ALL models.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Did you know that the current novel in the Jack Diamond Mystery Adventure Series in now available at the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/">www.Amazon.com </a>Kindle Store? I think you'll truly enjoy the read at a most affordable price. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716711134269492464.post-7247417077105209112012-03-26T15:59:00.002-07:002012-03-27T13:53:55.498-07:00<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The synopsis for CAUTION has been revised so I have re-posted it here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><b>M</b></span><span style="font-size: large;">issing person cases
generally fall into the dime-a-dozen category for Las Vegas PI, Jack Diamond.
To be sure they help pay the bills though his basic lifestyle comes nowhere
close to the flash and dash kitsch filled atmosphere of Sin City. That being
said, Jack Diamond’s lifestyle is far from dull and boring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> There
is always the exception of course and on occasion a case ends up with enough
twists and turns to qualify for a classic theme park ride. In the instance of <b>CAUTION:
Tram</b> <b>Approaching,</b> two murders and an unfortunate emotion wrenching
accident provide additional intrigue to the case for Jack and his special (make
that very special) associate, Melissa Blanchard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Initially,
Jack is summoned to the office of the Western Sun Insurance Agency whose
offices are in the same west of the Las Vegas Strip building as Jack Diamond.
It seems an executive from a mid-west life and casualty insurance company
represented by Western Sun has failed to return from what was purported to be a
business trip to Las Vegas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jack
rarely, if ever, turns down a case from Western Sun, one of his leading sources
of repeat business. Jack accepts the case in an appreciative, but not totally
enthusiastic fashion. It didn’t require a lot of initial inquiry however before
Jack sensed there was something more going on than yet another wayward soul who
got over extended at the tables, over loaded in the lounge and over-sexed in a
few of the more infamous ‘Gentlemen’s Clubs’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Once
again Jack turns to his close confidant and personal friend, Captain Hank
Mathis, head of the Criminal Investigation Unit in the Metro PD. Metro quickly
places the name of the missing insurance exec on the ever-changing Clark County
missing persons list. Even though the search progresses, it frustratingly lacks
some critical ingredients such as sufficient clues to begin to produce a trail
of sorts. In short order however, the pace begins to quicken when it becomes
clear that the object of the search didn’t just decide on the spur of the
moment to become another Vegas good–time-Charley. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Don’t
be tempted at this point in the book and run to any premature conclusions. You’ll
probably be wrong for one thing and you’ll miss some meaningful tenderhearted emotional intrigue that is critical to the story conclusion. And this is to say
nothing about a bevy of clues that could otherwise keep you on track, (pun
intended). That track will take you on a train adventure in Easter Europe,
which follows another train escape that begins in a most unlikely manner in Las
Vegas. As events eventually dictate, tracks will indeed provide meaningful, but
diametrically opposite conclusions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Readers
Alert: As you read <b>CAUTION: Tram Approaching, s</b>ome of the characters may
not be who they say they are and events aren’t always what they seem to be.</span></div>
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716711134269492464.post-72418926794399242912012-03-22T13:10:00.001-07:002012-03-22T13:10:49.541-07:00<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Author seeking book reviews. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you haven't visited <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/">www.smashwords.com</a> recently you really should. You'll find a great selection in all genre's and price ranges from free and up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As for the new Jack Diamond mystery adventure, reviews are always welcome. As I have already mentioned, the first 48 pages are there to preview for free. Take a look. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been asked recently for a more in depth character description of Jack Diamond. If fact I will be doing that in the next few days. Stay tuned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As my favorite resident of Lake Wobegon, MN likes to remind us; <i>Be Well, Do Good Work and Keep in Touch.</i> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0