Bøger af Frank W Butterfield

Monday, January 9, 1967 The new year has arrived and it's cold. Nick and Carter feel it more than most since they're just off the plane after three weeks in Brazil. Meanwhile, Jeffery Klein, Esquire, Nick's ex-lover, ex-lawyer, and ex-friend, is back in town. He needs Nick's help. Jeffery is being blackmailed. And not for chump change. After some husbandly nudging from Carter, Nick agrees to look into who might be behind the outrageous demands for money. Almost before they know it, Nick and Carter have discovered the real scandal behind the blackmail. It's juicy. It's salacious. And it goes back quite a few years. And, to their surprise, tracking down the blackmailer leads from San Francisco to Sacramento and the office of the Golden State's newest governor, former actor Ronald Reagan. What will the Gipper think when he realizes what's been happening under his very nose?

January 1, 1970 After a night of revelry at their newest hotel, the Hopkins Excelsior Hotel, in Viña del Mar, Chile, Nick and Carter head up the coast for some surfing along with their nephews, Kermit and Ernie. Once there, they meet up with two interesting characters. The first is a sweet gal in her early 20s who shows up in the strangest places but always at the right time. The other is a strange and very much out-of-place American military officer. One thing leads to another, and before Nick and Carter know what's happening, they find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy that could have serious international implications. From the coast of Chile to a Spanish town in the hills of the Basque Country and all the way to the halls of Buckingham Palace, Nick and Carter are hot on the heels of The Crooked Colonel!

Monday, July 5, 1954 Mildred's Diner just isn't the welcoming place it once was. Looking forward to a nice breakfast, including that chewy bacon that Nick and Carter both love, they're asked to leave. Mildred has gone back to Texas and word is they "ain't welcome." But it's a sunny July day, so Nick puts the top down on the Roadmaster and they head across the Golden Gate to Sausalito for eggs, bacon, toast, and coffee. But it seems like trouble follows them along the way and, before they know it, Nick and Carter are sitting in jail for vagrancy. After making bail, the whole team is on the job figuring what the heck is going on in sleepy Sausalito while also chasing down the missing Mildred, who may have been kidnapped or worse!

Tuesday, August 13, 1957 Life is good. Nick and Carter are living on the French Riviera, having breakfast by the pool every morning with a view of the Mediterranean, and living a quiet life after a busy month. The grand re-opening of Nick's latest acquisition, l'Hôtel Beau Rivage, the hottest spot in Nice, has gone off without a hitch. And, best of all, Nick has recovered nicely after taking a bullet in his shoulder. But then, on the same day, they have not one, but two unexpected encounters with the aristocracy. A day of driving down the coast leads to an amiable but unusual request from the former Grace Kelly, now Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco. Nick is suspicious of the favor she's asked but he's also smitten with the gorgeous blonde who lives in the Prince's Palace just a few miles down the coast. Carter, of course, can't help but tease Nick about losing his heart to movie-star royalty. Later that evening, Nick and Carter are invited to an impromptu dinner with Her Grace, the Duchess of Boston. She happens to be the mother of the British spy who has been helping Nick and Carter stay out of trouble for the past couple of years. Her son, Lord Gerald Whitcombe, left London for Nice back in July but has since disappeared. The duchess is convinced that the two of them are the only ones who can find him. What follows is a race against time that leads Nick and Carter back to Paris where they find that things are not exactly how they left them.

January 29, 2019 Eddie Smith is a chubby bear of a guy who lives in Daytona Beach and doesn't work much anymore but isn't retired. Whit Hall has just retired as a tight end for an NFL expansion team and lives in San Antonio. At 52, Eddie feels at home with himself and has learned how to roll with life. He's happy enough where he is and doesn't expect much to happen anytime soon. At 35, Whit is ready for a life that put less of a strain on his body. He's banked plenty of dough but doesn't know what to do next. . . . About to sit down to his favorite take-out lasagna, Eddie gets a call from a friend who wants to hire him to help Whit figure out what's next in his life. Eddie is a kinda, sorta life coach and might be able to help but seriously doubts it. Reluctantly, he climbs aboard his friend's private jet and flies to San Antonio. Once he arrives, he ends up getting a whole lot more than he bargained for. Whit Hall is aggressive, he's angry, and he's under a lot of pressure. It's a good thing Eddie (sorta) knows what he's doing! . . . Now that he's retired, Whit is looking for the next thing. He's set, with plenty of bank. And he's doing what he can to deal with his parents, who are all up in his business. A lot. Then, one Wednesday morning, he opens his front door. Before he knows it, Whit is chasing Eddie Smith out of his house, down the street, and even further. It's a good thing Whit is (kinda) in shape for this new type of chase! . . . Neither man wants to go far... But unexpected changes are chasing them both... Wherever they end up going, and whatever ends up happening, this will be the beginning of something new and wonderful for them both. . . . This 45K word stand-alone contemporary male/male (MM) romance involves a chubby bear guy and a retired professional football player. Included: Some tension... Hints of a coming-out story...Medium-heat sexual descriptions... Slightly nerdy details... Some metaphysics... And a HEA (that's a happily-ever-after)... Not included: Much angst... Graphic sexual descriptions...A cliff-hanger... This story is the beginning of a series of contemporary romantic adventures. It ends with the start of one of those, so there are some loose plot points but no cliff-hanger. Topics: virgin, virgin hero, out for you, first time romance, mid-life transformation, innocent first timer, late bloomer . . . Golden Gate Love Stories are all about the lives and loves of men who fall in love with each other and find the one they were waiting for. Set in the same universe as the Nick Williams Mystery Series and the Daytona Beach Book Series, these love stories focus on the men who come together, find true love, and really do live happily ever after.

Monday, February 21, 1955 Nick and Carter are Down Under in Sydney at summer's end and are looking forward to finally having time to spend at the beach so Carter can get in some surfing while Nick works on his tan as a surf widow. Everything is going to plan until they forget to make it look like they slept in both beds and are asked to leave their hotel. Fortunately, they're able to rent a house in the Eastern Suburbs atop a cliff that is two hundred feet above the Pacific. The house is perfect, with new furniture, an ocean-facing sunroom, and a housekeeper. But then it starts to rain. And the housekeeper is clobbered with a cast-iron skillet. The questions start piling up. Who cleaned up the blood after the body was removed? Whose car is that parked at the end of the street? Will they ever make it to the beach? In the end, it's another trans-Pacific adventure for Nick and Carter that leads home in a number of unexpected ways.

Wednesday, November 30, 1960 It's three in the morning when the newly-installed Princess phone (with illuminated dial) next to Carter's side of the bed starts to insistently ring. Raymond Burr from TV's Perry Mason is calling and he's in a bit of a pickle. Someone stashed a corpse in his on-studio cottage and he's worried about how this might affect the show. Nick and Carter fly down where they find a handsome stiff. He was a former personal assistant and wanna-be actor who turned to one of the best-paying gigs in town: male companion. And he had a little black book chock full of famous names, home phone numbers, and careers that could easily be ruined. But only one of them is a murderer and it's up to Nick and Carter to find out who it might be...

Thursday, May 14, 1953 Ben White is a police officer for the S.F.P.D. It's Thursday afternoon and he's sitting by the phone, holding down the fort while the rest of his platoon from the Central Station is out supporting the homicide inspectors who are investigating a couple of murders at the Colombo Market on Front Street. When the phone finally does ring, it's a Lt. Mike Robertson from the North Station who's in the neighborhood and has a proposition for Ben. One that the lieutenant promises Ben will want to take him up on. Little does Ben know that everything he wants is about to come his way while everything he has is about to fall apart as he discovers who he is and who he can become with a true love in his life. - - - - - - - Golden Gate Love Stories are all about the lives and loves of men who fall in love with each other and find the one they were waiting for. Set in the same universe as the Nick Williams Mystery Series, these love stories focus on the men who come together, find true love, and really do live happily ever after.

Thursday, October 18, 1962 Nick is in trouble. He's obstructing justice and might possibly be an accessory to murder, after the fact. The cops are on to him and his lawyer is very concerned. How did this happen? It's all because Sam Halverson, a close friend and an operative for WilliamsJones Security, has murdered a man and is on his way to Mexico to hide out from the law. At Nick's instruction... Oh, boy! Meanwhile, Nick's latest attempt at matchmaking appears to be falling apart. It seemed like such a perfect pairing but, apparently, the prospective couple won't be living happily ever after. Will justice (and love) prevail? Find out in this, the second book in a three-part story arc (beginning with The Derelict Dad), that's all about what happens when a father, who has abandoned his family to find his fortune, finally has to come to terms with his past.

Sunday, February 6, 1955 It's Sunday night and Nick has decided he wants to get back in the kitchen to make a couple of pans of lasagna for dinner, something he hasn't done since he and Carter moved into the big pile of rocks on Nob Hill. Captain Daniel O'Reilly, pilot of The Flirtatious Captain, is bringing a friend for dinner. Instead of his latest love interest, the captain introduces Nick and Carter to an old friend, a man who is on his last legs and who has a favor to ask: can Nick and Carter help him get his girl and her son out of Red China? That's where things begin but it's far from where they end...