Terry Larson – författare

Jack Mayberry, a thin red-head bent on changing his laid-back, dull personality, begins his new career at 26 as a private eye in the L.A. area. His first case is to find who removed over three million dollars buried in three suitcases in Griffith Park by an eccentric old banker. In his spare time, at his mothers request, he investigates whether or not his step-father is being faithful.

With a lull in his first case, he takes on the additional case of solving who stole a $40,000 pearl necklace from an elderly woman living alone in a suite at the House of Parrotise, an exclusive hotel that offers guests the accompaniment of parrots in their rooms. His investigation rapidly expands when he suspicions that perhaps two recent deaths at the hotel, one reported as a suicide and the other as a natural death, as well as many reported thefts, could be linked to whoever stole the necklace. Falling in love with his clients granddaughter, who becomes a suspect of the police in the case, accentuates his new self-identity problems.

Jacks woes quickly worsen as he finds himself followed, threatened, accosted, kidnapped, and finally a fugitive of the law. In a daring episode he manages to find the bizarre mechanism and person responsible for the crimes. But can he extradite himself and his girlfriend from the plights they have gotten themselves into?

Another season for the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) hikers began as usual at the Mexican-California border a few miles south of the town of Campo, California. Little did the early hikers know what they had in store for some of them. Somewhere up the trail, a killer or two was waiting to strike with the intent to kill, for unknown reasons. Who would have thought that such animosity could prevail along a famous trail designed for innocent outdoor recreation? Who was it they had to fear? Was it the Trail Devils, a gang from the town of Mojave that was camping next to the trail for the summer for the purpose of harassing the hikers and young bikers? Or was it a Trail Angel, a person dedicated to helping the logistics of the hikers? Or, perhaps, it was the hired ranch hand who patrolled the trail to guarantee nobody abused the easement rights of the TJ Ranch property in Antelope Valley? Or was it someone else? Would the hikers traced up the trail make it to Canada, including the man possessed to be the first to go all the way up and back to the Mexican border, or would they meet death by the time they got to the Tehachapi Mountains? Who was gong to solve these mystery deaths, the sheriff deputies out of Mojave, or was it going to be someone familiar with the trail?