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Investigative reporter Jake Fleming goes to London to investigate the disappearance of a good friend, who'd vanished en route to Jake's home port of Berkeley, California to give a talk at the University about a new book he was about to publish. He predicts it will be a blockbuster, but also highly controversial. He never arrives.
San Francisco based Investigative reporter Jake Fleming has a problem: Desmond Lewis, a Professor of English Literature and an old friend of his from London has vanished, en-route to a talk at the University of California in Berkeley about a new book promising shocking revelations. He never arrives. When a rented car is found parked on the Golden Gate Bridge with Lewis’s travel bag in the trunk, the police deem it a suicide. Jake doesn’t believe that for a minute, and convinces his newspaper i>The San Francisco Tribune/i>, to sponsor a trip to London to investigate.
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When a young African American graduate student from Boston is found murdered in rural South Florida, P.I. Tony Lowell takes it personally. The victim had been the grandson of two of his oldest friends.
When Timothy Cross, a recent young college graduate and environmental activist working for the government, is found murdered in an alligator pond, Florida private eye Tony Lowell and his friend, police detective Lena Bedrosian, search for a cold-blooded killer.
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div>Lowell doesn't hesitate to join the fray, for the victim was the nephew of Ernie Larson, one of Lowell's oldest friends./div>
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div>As Lowell begins investigating, his array of suspects includes a baseball fanatic, a single mother, and her dangerously violent boyfriend. Soon he f | |  | | Eye of the Gator (A Tony Lowell Mystery)
In which laid-back P.I. Tony Lowell takes on racists, wife beaters, industrial polluters, and a former baseball Hall of Famer in this, the original eco-thriller by Gene (E.C.) Ayres
A crusading you black man is murdered when his environmental concerns for Florida's only aquifer butts heads with the state's white power brokers, including a former Hall of Fame baseball player, now a full time resident and commercial land developer. Budget constraints force local police, much against their will, to engage sailor and part-time P.I. Tony Lowell to investigate the crime. Lowell has bigger fish to fry, with his daughter, a stranger to him until recently, deciding to follow her boyfriend to a distant college. Feeling alone and distinctly abandoned, Tony wants to take a few day | |  | | Hour of the Manatee
P.I. Tony Lowell is a former Navy SEAL turned hipster, who refuses to carry a gun. He uses mind over matter by outwitting and aout-thinking his opponents. But when an elder new client is murdered in front of him, he is determined to find her killer, as well as the one she'd begun to describe. When an old love enters the picture things begin to change rapidly.
Winner of the 1992 St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye Novel
div>Anthony Lowell carries neither gun nor badge, doesn't own a briefcase, and prefers sandals to suits. A dropout from a once-stellar career as a news photographer, he's now restoring boats between gigs as a freelance, licensed private eye who's the best detective on the Gulf Coast of Florida. In spite of his pacifist nature, Lowell isn't afraid to venture where he's not wanted—in this case directly into the path of a raging political hurricane./div>
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Winner of the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye Novel Contest of 1992. Introducing Tony Lowell, the original hip detective.
Former press photographer and boat builder Tony Lowell is also a part time P.I. He lives on one of the last stretches of undeveloped bayou on the Florida Gulf Coast, where he teaches college, works on his boat, drinks beer, smokes a little weed, and solves crimes. Especially crimes against old ladies. And crimes the next justice to the Supreme Court may have gotten away with many years ago. Crimes like murder.
Originally published in 1994 by St. Martin's Press writing as E. C. Ayres
| |  | | Il Libro Segreto di Shakespeare
Investigative journalist Jake Fleming goes to London to learn what became of a missing academic friend and colleague, who'd been about to publish an Earth-shaking expose about Shakespeare (no relation to the Oxford theory put forth in the film Anonymous). As he pursues his quest, Fleming is forced to reach a stunning and unexpected conclusion: a different one entirely from that of the film Anonymous!
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font face="Times New Roman, serif">font size="3">When San Francisco-based investigative journalist Jake Fleming gets a call from an old acquaintance in London he is too busy to talk. What his friend wanted to discuss was his new book promising 'explosive revelations' regarding one of England's most cherished icons, and he is on his way to Berkeley to deliver a lecture on his findings. But he wanted to meet with Jake beforehand for some advice and feedback. J | |  | | Inside the New China: An Ethnographic Memoir
Mystery writer Gene (E. C.) Ayres gets an offer he cannot refuse: to come and live, work, and teach inside the People's Republic of China, at a state university. Things are not what they seem...
Based on his exploits and adventures teaching spoken English in the People’s Republic of China, Gene Ayres takes the travel adventure to a new realm and new dimension interwoven with social, political and environmental observations and satire, as well as serious local and global issues. In China he married one of the locals and became one, while at the same time knowing that, not being Chinese, he would never fit in. Taking raw freshman students right out of military boot camp, he taught them to think for themselves, and be their own person: a radical concept in China, but rapidly cat | |  | | Lair of the Lizard (A Tony Lowell Mystery)
Tony Lowell goes to Santa Fe to find a missing woman, and finds himself a fish out of water in more ways than one.
Out of print | |  | | Night of the Panther
Florida P.I. has a problem: he's been called to duty involving a murdered female Park Ranger. And she was a close relative of a female rival police detective.
P.I. Tony Lowell is a Navy SEAL veteran who served in the Gulf War and those experiences have turned him against carrying a weapon. Facts are most P.I.'s don't, it's just inviting trouble, like keeping a gun in a house with children. He also smokes weed with his Creek Indian friend Perry Lightfoot, between gigs.
In 'Night of the Panther' Lowell has been asked by Police Detective Lena Bedrosian, an occasional partner in crime-solving--always reluctant on both sides--to investigate the case because she cannot because the victim, a female park ranger in Corkscrew Swamp nort | |  | | The Shakespeare Conundrum
An investigation into the controversy surrounding the Shakespeare authorship.
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The controversy over the authorship of Shakespeare is two centuries old, and the doubters were numerous: Mark Twain, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Dickens, Sigmond Freud, Charlie Chaplin, even Orson Welles questioned the veracity of Shakespeare as author. For starters, the man had no known education. He was raised by illiterate parents in a rural farm village, where the local school only had three grades. But even that much |
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