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In more than three decades as a professional writer/journalist, Christopher has covered myriad subjects and interviewed thousands of people from the famous to the unknown. He brings these years of experience to each of his novels. In his career, his work has appeared in daily newspapers, monthly magazines, extensively on radio and the occasional dalliance with television. He has written advertising copy and radio commercials – and continues to write. Prior to this new novel, Sincerely, Dina Lamont, about a Hollywood star lost to time, Christopher wrote novels about the most famous cat in ancient Japan who had special powers in A Cat in Time, and 22: The Biography of a Gun, a tale set in the near future where guns are strictly controlled yet where one manages to make its way into the hands of those who want it. Previously, Christopher spent more than five years creating a series of novels that take place in 1930s Los Angeles called The James Murray Mysteries. Books in the series are Murder at Eastern Columbia, Sabotage at RKO Studio, Abduction at Griffith Observatory, Blackmail at Wrigley Field, and Haunting at Ocean House. Other writing featuring his byline includes The Babi Makers – a science fiction tale about a world where the most important resource is babies; Sarah & Gerald – a novel about Paris in the 1920s; Forever - and other stories – a collection of short stories; The Life Line – the novel of the big one that levels San Francisco; News on the Home Front during World War Two; and Mama Cat – a book for children. Also, several short plays, a few radio plays and a boatload of radio documentaries. |
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It all started with a small box, big enough to hold about two reams of paper, sitting in the middle of the otherwise empty storage unit. Inside were three manila folders, innocent-looking enough. There was also a mostly completed manuscript and a canceled check in the amount of $50,000. Now, here it is: the greatest story never told about how one of the biggest Hollywood stars got lost to time. |
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It was a dark and stormy night (no, really). A creature struggles against the storm to find some safe haven; for the time is drawing near when she will bring new life into this world. She has eaten nothing in such a long time, and has had little to quench her unending thirst. And then, to her great surprise and immense relief, she sees a light, and a door and maybe, just maybe, the safety she seeks.
Come along with me on a journey I call A Cat in Time. In it, we follow the adventures of Myobu, the very first cat in Japan whose name has come down through the ages to us. But, be warned: some say the story you are about to read cannot be true, that no such events happened; but I assure you they are true, they are real and that Myobu really lived. After all, her name is still known, to this day, in the land of the setting sun, the great land of Japan, where the name Myobu is spoken with a hushed reverence befitting one of such greatness. |
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More than 30,000 Americans are killed each year with a gun. According to FBI statistics, 70 percent of those murders involve a handgun.
22: The Biography of a Gun takes place in the very near future, when guns are strictly controlled in the United States. It focuses on one specific gun and the people who touch it. One young girl finds it and sells it; a man steals it hoping to make some fast cash; one woman uses it to get revenge against the man who made her get an abortion; a woman is gunned down when a robbery goes wrong; and a man uses it to end the suffering of his beloved wife. Here then in one novel are twenty-two stories of people whose lives are changed by a single gun: some for the better, many for the worse. For some, this gun is the last thing they touch in their lives. |
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Los Angeles. 1939. Writer James Murray isn’t famous, but his first four novels have firmly established him as a writer of popular detective novels. Now happily married, he sets out to help his wife -- famed newspaper woman Arden St. Johns -- as she investigates a popular mystic. Someone is trying to convince others that the dead niece of a famous actress is out for revenge. Can James and Arden team up to solve the mystery?
Haunting at Ocean House is two novels in one: two parallel stories, featuring two heroes, working two mysteries in two different versions of 1930s Los Angeles. Join James and his alter ego as they each try to find the person and motive behind the haunting. It’s filled with twists and turns leading to a dramatic climax inside the city’s most popular dance spot: The Palomar Ballroom. Read more about The James Murray Mysteries. |
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Los Angeles. 1937. While writer James Murray isn’t famous, his first three novels have sold well enough to keep him at his typewriter as he tries to pen his fourth. But James has other problems: he’s not done very well since his girlfriend left him to pursue her own career. He’s fallen on difficult times and fallen hard. Can he help himself as he tries to help his new friends who are the victims of a mysterious blackmail scheme?
In the tradition of the first three James Murray Mysteries, Blackmail at Wrigley Field is two novels in one: two parallel stories, featuring two heroes, working two cases in two different versions of 1930s Los Angeles. Join James and his alter ego as they each try to find the person and motive behind the blackmail. It’s a story filled with twists and turns that leads to a final showdown in a spectacular mansion high above the city in the Hollywood Hills. Read more about The James Murray Mysteries. |
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Los Angeles. 1935. Writer James Murray isn’t famous, but his first two novels have been selling at a moderate pace and now he’s hard at work on a third. He’s living with the girl he loves and enjoying a life he once could only dream about. But an innocent outing to Los Angeles’s new Griffith Observatory changes all that when a commotion during a presentation leads to a kidnapping. James, witness to the abduction, feels compelled to find out the truth behind it.
Abduction at Griffith Observatory is two novels in one: two parallel stories, featuring two heroes, working two mysteries in two different versions of 1930s Los Angeles. Join James and his alter ego as they each try to find the person who was kidnapped. Follow the twists and turns until the final showdown aboard a rusty old freighter moored at a dock at San Pedro harbor. Read a sample. Read more about The James Murray Mysteries. |
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Hollywood. 1933. Your name is James Murray. You are the junior screenwriter at a major Hollywood movie studio. You always wanted to be a writer and your first novel was a surprise success. Suddenly, you find yourself trying to figure out what’s behind a series of “accidents” plaguing various productions -- including the new film King Kong. Can you solve the mystery before it's too late?
Sabotage at RKO Studio is two novels in one: two parallel stories, featuring two heroes, working two mysteries in two different versions of 1930s Hollywood. Join James and his alter ego as they each try to find the saboteur. Follow the twists and turns until the final scene at a glamorous Hollywood movie premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Read a sample. Read more about The James Murray Mysteries. |
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Los Angeles. 1931. Your name is James Murray. You are a clerk in the Junior Boy's department at the swankest new department store in downtown. You want to be a writer, but there's a Depression on. Suddenly, you find yourself trying to solve the murder of your best friend. Will you be able to find the murderer before it's too late?
Murder at Eastern Columbia is two novels in one: two parallel stories, featuring two heroes, working two murders in two different versions of 1930s Los Angeles. Join James and his alter ego as they each try to solve the murder of the girl with sorrel-colored hair. Follow the twists and turns until the climactic scene atop the tallest building in all of LA: the brand new Los Angeles City Hall. Read a sample. Read more about The James Murray Mysteries. |
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Take a trip to the future world of Nové in the science-fiction tale The Babi Makers. Here, there is no hunger or war, and the most important industry is the making of babies. Hiperyan and Dion are living the perfect life, until a mysteries illness strikes her. It's an illness that could not only jeapordize their lives, but all life on Nové.
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Travel back in time to post-war Paris in the 1920s in the romantic novel Sarah & Gerald about two Americans who count among their closest friends painters, writers, composers and many other artists on the brink of fame and immortality. Their lives are golden, but not even a perfect life is free from sadness.
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A tale about books that escape from a home where they are not loved, the story of a birthday party and an unexpected guest, and a tale of love through the ages. All of these and more will be found in Forever - and other stories a collection of short stories about life and death -- and life forever.
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The unthinkable has happened, and San Francisco has been wiped off the face of the earth in a devastating earthquake. But there are survivors -- trapped under hundreds of feet of water in the mass-transit tunnel which, for them, is The Life Line in this novel about the big one.
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Two friends. Two spoiled rich girls for whom the war has been nothing but an inconvenience. But soon, life for Carole and Irene will be changed dramatically in News on the Home Front a novel of two friends coming of age on the home front during World War Two.
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What happens to cats when they die? Why, they go to live forever with the Mama Cat in this book for children. A sweet and uplifting story that turns sadness into happiness
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