Wichita Nimrod - Andrews, Patrick
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"1940s Wichita, Kansas When Private Detective Dwayne Wheeler returns from his honeymoon, he receives an unexpected call from Agent Harry Philbin of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. With the KBI overloaded by narcotics crimes, Philbin offers Dwayne a temporary position-investigate several mysterious farmhouse burglaries. Accepting the job, Dwayne discovers that the farmers have never seen fit to lock their front doors. Yet...this is the first time that criminals have struck-every break-in happening on Sunday morning while each victim is busy attending church. To make matters worse, a racket…mehr

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"1940s Wichita, Kansas When Private Detective Dwayne Wheeler returns from his honeymoon, he receives an unexpected call from Agent Harry Philbin of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. With the KBI overloaded by narcotics crimes, Philbin offers Dwayne a temporary position-investigate several mysterious farmhouse burglaries. Accepting the job, Dwayne discovers that the farmers have never seen fit to lock their front doors. Yet...this is the first time that criminals have struck-every break-in happening on Sunday morning while each victim is busy attending church. To make matters worse, a racket in which stolen cars are being stripped down is uncovered, and Dwayne is tasked with finding the unknown merchants. But when a murder blasts on the scene, Dwayne's world is turned upside down. Will his KBI-assigned cases take a back seat... Or will he use his devastation as ammunition to tie up loose ends once and for all? Wichita Nimrod is book five in a historical private eye series that follows Dwayne Wheeler-a tough and hardboiled detective"--
Autorenporträt
Patrick Andrews was born an Army Brat on January 14, 1936-his sister's arrival just two years later. His father was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. His mother was a good army officer's wife, who, like several of her lady cousins, wrote short-stories and poems. After the war, Patrick's father transferred into the Army Reserves, and they moved to Wichita, Kansas-where Patrick caught the scribbling bug. When Patrick got a job as a copy boy at the Wichita Eagle newspaper, he was ecstatic.A few years later, Patrick got a yen to be a paratrooper. He enlisted in the Army and took basic training in Camp Chaffee, Arkansas, soon after being transferred to the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg. His career with the 82nd was rewarding-being promoted to sergeant and tasked with training cadets in West Point before retiring. When Patrick read James Jones' From Here to Eternity, he appreciated the pride and struggling of soldiers. Soon after, he moved to San Diego, California and began writing and mailing manuscripts while working at a union typesetting company. He married and had one child, named William Patrick.One pivotal night, Patrick was with a couple of his writing buddies, drinking scotch whiskey and playing at writing the Sixgun Samurai series. The next day, they drove up to Pinnacle Books in Los Angeles, where they walked out with a book deal. Patrick and his friends went on to write the series' twelve novels-which were also printed in the U.K. by Star Books, the paperback division of W.H. Allen & Co. From then on, Patrick started writing and selling western, men's adventure, and military fiction. Years passed, and he had 24 published e-books with Piccadilly Publishing in the U.K.Today, all six of Patrick's Wichita Detective books are getting another chance to see the light of day-with Rough Edges Press-and find refuge on a cozy shelf in Ocean Hills, California where Patrick and his beloved wife, Julie, live.