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From Put-in-Bay to Middle Bass Island After Labor Day, the residents of South Bass Island and its popular resort village of Put-in-Bay were looking forward to a calm fall following a busy summer. That changed when they were shaken by the news that one of their well-liked bed & breakfast owners had disappeared. Elke White's disappearance appeared suspicious to police from the get-go, and investigators soon focused on her husband, Spider. Rumors abounded about marital strife and an affair. Did Elke run away from her troubles or was her disappearance a homicide? And what was the motive? Who was responsible? And what about the connection to Middle Bass Island? Suspects were lining up like planes waiting to land at an airport. Island investigative reporter Emerson Moore finds himself entangled in a spiderweb full of mystery as he investigates her disappearance. It's a scrambled jigsaw puzzle of suspects.

Jamaica to Put-in-Bay to Wooster to Tulare to Las Vegas to London to Morocco to the French Riviera to Norway to New Orleans What's killing dairy cows? Investigative reporter Emerson Moore's search for the source takes a deadly turn when he focuses on infiltrating a British biotechnology company suspected to be involved with the deaths of the dairy cows and several humans. Following the unexpected death of a close colleague, Moore faces his most formidable challenge yet as he embarks on a James Bond-like international odyssey with the help of a technological genius and a Royal Canadian Mountie as his unlikely wingman to confront a vengeful nemesis bent on bioterrorism. Sawdust Joint promises to be the most exciting Emerson Moore adventure yet as he finds his physical endurance and mental capabilities pushed beyond their normal limits. Filled with casino action, a bevy of beautiful femme fatales, dangerous mountain road chases, treacherous cliff face climbing, incarceration in a Moroccan prison and high technology, Moore matches wits with a diabolical villain who is one of the most dangerous men he has encountered.

Holden Beach to Shallotte to Southport to Ocean Isle Beach Put-in-Bay investigative reporter Emerson Moore visits Shallotte, North Carolina to relax with an old friend. Little did Moore know that he would be pulled into the intrigue surrounding a suspicious boat offshore the Flounder Pier restaurant in nearby idyllic Holden Beach. Mixed in the plot are the strange nightly explorations by a retired shrimp trawler captain on the Shallotte River near the Holden Seafood Company plus his longstanding feud with another trawler captain. Toss in a couple unsolved murders, a touch of romance, a kidnapping and a sinking boat with two teenagers and you have the ingredients for a compelling adventure. The family-oriented Holden Beach community finds its peaceful island life upended by the perilous incidences occurring between the Islands Art Gallery in Ocean Isle Beach and a Southport marina. The story is filled with several endearing characters and their multi-faceted relationships with each other.

A Confederate raiding party from Canada commandeers a Lake Erie ferry boat in Put-in-Bay and plans to free 2,000 Confederate prisoners on nearby Johnson Island while a spy schemes to destroy the Union gunboat in Sandusky Bay. The raid is complicated by a seedy French-Canadian, a mysterious trunk and a body found on Rattlesnake Island where rainbows end. One hundred forty plus years later, Emerson Moore, an investigative reporter struggling with the tragic death of his wife and son, returns to visit his aunt in Put-in-Bay where he incurs the animosity of a wealthy shipping magnate who lives in a ship's bow on South Bass Island's west side. Moore meets an Ohio State University professor who is studying the island's caves and encounters a number of challenges when he falls in love with the professor's married daughter with whom he shares a haunting memory from his boyhood island days and solves the mystery of the missing trunk.