Detective Prakash Silva is puzzled when murder victims suddenly begin to pop up in a sleepy tourist town in the Colorado Rockies. While there seems to be some connection with fly fishing and a local fishing shop, it is unclear who the murderer is, o...
As I have lived and worked in many different countries, these short stories reflect the life of a rolling stone. They are fiction, but are drawn from my experiences as an anthropologist who lived in Africa for nine years; my forty years in academia;...
Fishing & Death is a murder mystery with the protagonist Prakash Silva, who appeared in the author’s previous mystery, Fishing for Clues. In this novel Prakash moves from Colorado after resigning from the police there and takes a job as the Unders...
What starts out as as a pleasure cruise along the West African Coast turn violent as the ship is taken over by terrorists. Even after some staff and crew thwart the violence on board the terror continues....
Spies from various countries battle each other in the Azores Islands and Africa to attain victory in World War II. In the Azores Jude Mendes is an OSS spy trying to prevent German U-Boats from torpedoing Allied ships. When he is sent to Africa to h...
A baffling case that begins for Marlon Mendes with the break-in at the famed Fillmore music venue in San Francisco. Nothing was stolen though, but there was a lot of graffiti. That was a clue, but the cops and Marlon missed. Subsequent break-ins thro...
This work of fiction mirrors what has transpired in the first months of the Trump administration, with fictional characters & twists. It is meant to be both a work of fiction & an educational tool for the reader, as it reflects much of what was occu...
The San Francisco private eye, Marlon Mendes, is just back from an extended vacation cruise to the South Seas and finds himself embroiled in complex cases that call for both smarts and his karate skills as a black belt....
Marlon Mendes, private investigator in San Francisco, was called by the SFPD to investigate the murder of a Russian diplomat. That case became dangerous and complicated, but not as complicated as the Chess Case and the case, where the serial killer s...
Marlon deals with murderers, drug traffickers & thieves on Fisherman’s Wharf in beautiful San Francisco. As usual, he is aided in his investigations by Lieutenant Hank Martel, his African-American helper, Spear, his Indian assistant, Buckskin Rainb...
Murder at the famous Cliff House in San Francisco is investigated by Marlon Mendes, Private Eye and his sidekicks, Flo, also a PI, Spear, his black muscle. The case proves to be complex, but they prevail in the end....