Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    ...Sorry, Wrong Number: Suzie B. Mystery #1
    ...Sorry, Wrong Number: Suzie B. Mystery #1
    ...Sorry, Wrong Number: Suzie B. Mystery #1
    Ebook137 pages1 hour

    ...Sorry, Wrong Number: Suzie B. Mystery #1

    By Gene Grossman

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    If you haven’t been fascinated by her brilliant Sherlock Holmes type of logic in the first 15 Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries, then now’s your chance to see what little Suzi can do when she’s out on her own... well, almost her own.

    She still lives on a luxurious yacht in Marina del Rey California with her legal Guardian, attorney Peter Sharp; and she still has her trusted bodyguard Bernie, a huge Saint Bernard - but for this adventure she doesn’t want to see the adults take advantage of her superior computer skills and grab all the credit for solving the crimes, like they have in the first 15 books that chronicled Peter Sharp’s high-profile criminal cases.

    The assignment she has given herself for this first solo adventure is to figure out the identity of a murderous serial church bomber, set up a trap for him, and have the press handy when she actually attempts a citizens’ arrest, with the assist of local law enforcement. At least that’s the plan.

    This would be an ambitious goal for an experienced team of sworn peace officers, but she believes she can pull it off with only the help of some people that she has become acquainted with in her work for attorney Peter Sharp: but this time, she will be giving out the assignments and making all the decisions.

    To accomplish her chosen task she must make some decisions that slightly inconvenience many of the adults she usually is quite friendly with: attorney Peter Sharp’s yacht is seized by the Department of Homeland Security, District Attorney Myra Scot Sharp (Peter’s bitter ex-wife) has her home computers seized by the U.S. Marshal’s Office, and her boyfriend’s mother is believed to be a kidnap victim.

    Aside from these few minor setbacks, Suzi remains determined to complete her assignment and bring this criminal to justice, notwithstanding the trail of misfortune that her closest friends are forced to endure, while she forges ahead with only one goal in mind: to put the bad guy away. And by the way, there’s a large reward being offered for information leading to this criminal’s arrest and conviction, but far be it from us to even hint that Suzi might be considering this monetary incentive, to serve society in the best way she can.

    So - sit back and fasten your seatbelt, because this first Suzi B. Mystery is about to take off, and if you can handle the turbulence along the way, you may be in better shape to survive the roller-coaster ending when the entire city is put on alert to find this little detective, as the chase to catch the bad guy is joined by several local and federal law enforcement departments who all collide at one of the busiest places in Los Angeles

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMagic Lamp Press
    Release dateJan 8, 2012
    ISBN9781466074422
    ...Sorry, Wrong Number: Suzie B. Mystery #1
    Author

    Gene Grossman

    GENE GROSSMAN was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the North side neighborhood of Albany Park, where he attended Hibbard Elementary and Von Steuben High School.He pursued majors in psychology, chemistry and mathematics at Wright Junior College, Roosevelt University and Illinois Institute of Technology - all the while working his way through high school and college by playing piano in clubs on Chicago's then-famous "Rush Street."After moving to Southern California, he worked his way through law school playing piano in night clubs and appeared as a musician in seven major motion pictures.While slowly building his law practice, Gene purchased a truckload of movie equipment he rented out to film production companies and then started his own production company which over the years produced more than 50 educational programs on subjects ranting from Boating and Celestial Navigation, to legal subjects (Depositions, Bankruptcy, etc.) Sign Language Instruction and many more.Always having been interested in boating, getting divorced prompted him to buy and move onto a 45-foot Chris Craft motor yacht in Marina del Rey California,.Years later, while serving as navigator on a yacht delivery from the U.S. to Tortola, Gene wrote his first book, "Celestial Navigation for Dummies" (before the popular series of 'Dummies' books was created). He used his own production equipment to shoot a video on the subject Celestial Navigation - "Sextant Use and the Sun Noon Shot" and unintentionally started the nautical video industry in this country.Over the next few years he followed that first title up with more than 50 other educational DVD titles, all displayed on his production company's website at www.MagicLampDVDs.com.Having moved on from doing scripts for his video productions, Gene turned to writing fiction, and now spends most of his time in the marina on his new boat, where he created the 15-book series of 'Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries,' all now available both in print and as eBooks at Smashwords via www.LegalMystery.comIn addition to the 15 Peter Sharp novels, Gene compiled a group of fiction and non-fiction titles that he has either written or edited for others, plus some classic stories: the publishing company he formed (www.MagicLampPress.com) now has more than 60 books in print.The Peter Sharp Legal Mystery Series#1: Single Jeopardy#2: ...By Reason of Sanity#3: A Class Action#4: Conspiracy of Innocence#5: ...Until Proven Innocent#6: The Common Law#7: The Magician's Legacy#8: The Reluctant Jurist#9: The Final Case#10: An Element of Peril#11: A Good Alibi#12: Legally Dead#13: How to Rob a Bank#14: Murder Under Way#15: The Sherlock Holmes CaperThe Suzi B. Mystery Series (a spin-off)#1: ...Sorry, Wrong Number#2: Movie Magic#3: Two Perfect Crimes#4: He's the Guy#5: The Magic BulletsAll 20 of Gene's mysteries are described in detail in a free eBook: The Mystery Books of Gene Grossman: Summaries with the Author's Comments.

    Read more from Gene Grossman

    Related to ...Sorry, Wrong Number

    Related ebooks

    Mystery For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Convict

      Jul 10, 2020

      The Convict
      5 min read

    • Article

      Valentine’s Drone Target No.4: Fiona Bruce

      Feb 2, 2023

      IN THESE SICKENING times of ‘woke’ political correctness, it’s not only men who are permitted to perform romantic gestures on Valentine’s Day – women can too! You literally couldn’t make it up. And as a proudly outspoken ‘feminist’, Beeb icon Fiona B

      2 min read

    • Article

      Valentine’s Drone Target No.4: Fiona Bruce

      Feb 2, 2023

      IN THESE SICKENING times of ‘woke’ political correctness, it’s not only men who are permitted to perform romantic gestures on Valentine’s Day – women can too! You literally couldn’t make it up. And as a proudly outspoken ‘feminist’, Beeb icon Fiona B

      2 min read

    • Article

      The New Rules Of “The Talk”

      Mar 30, 2020

      The New Rules Of “The Talk”
      4 min read

    • Article

      Tom Cunliffe

      Sep 4, 2020

      Tom Cunliffe
      5 min read

    • Article

      Tom Cunliffe

      Sep 4, 2020

      Tom Cunliffe
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Crate

      Mar 10, 2023

      I cruised out of BLE’s house in my crate. A teenaged girl like myself, she was one of few people I’d ever seen in person. I stopped my crate in no place in particular to flat out break the law. I was so good at hacking crates that I’d reprogrammed mi

      18 min read

    • Article

      Letter From The Founder

      Feb 8, 2024

      Letter From The Founder
      3 min read

    • Article

      Sex In A Pandemic

      Jan 16, 2021

      Sex In A Pandemic
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Woman Who Caught Epstein

      Jul 30, 2021

      The Woman Who Caught Epstein
      12 min read

    • Article

      Tom Cunliffe

      May 3, 2024

      Tom Cunliffe
      5 min read

    • Article

      Tom Cunliffe

      May 3, 2024

      Tom Cunliffe
      5 min read

    • Article

      I Wonder If They Know My Son Is Loved

      Jun 5, 2020

      Visiting my son in jail for the first time, I know that I cannot protect him. Although he is too young to drink, the criminal justice system regards him as an adult.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Mr. Rain Jacket

      May 20, 2019

      Mr. Rain Jacket
      10 min read

    • Article

      Meet Julie K Brown, The Woman Who Brought Down Jeffrey Epstein

      Jul 25, 2021

      The town of Palm Beach in Florida, the crime writer Carl Hiaasen has observed, “is one of the few places left in America where you can still drive around in a Rolls-Royce convertible and not get laughed at.” It’s an unironic island, filled with the s

      12 min read

    • Article

      When Misfortune Strikes

      Apr 11, 2021

      When Misfortune Strikes
      2 min read

    • Article

      Nose For A Story

      Feb 22, 2024

      Nose For A Story
      7 min read

    • Article

      OreoArroyo

      Jul 6, 2021

      WHEN THE STRIPPER STRUTTED INTO THE LIBRARY, SHE COULDN’T hide her dismay. Probably, she and her bodyguard expected a bachelor party or investment bankers celebrating a big deal at the mansion overlooking the Newport Coast. She wouldn’t have anticipa

      21 min read

    • Article

      G’day – And Goodbye

      Aug 25, 2021

      G’day – And Goodbye
      4 min read

    • Article

      Bird’s Words

      May 9, 2022

      Bird’s Words
      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for ...Sorry, Wrong Number

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      ...Sorry, Wrong Number - Gene Grossman

      * * * *

      …Sorry, Wrong Number

      Suzi B. Mystery #1

      By Gene Grossman,

      Author of the popular 15-book

      Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries

      www.LegalMystery.com

      Copyright Gene Grossman - 2012

      Smashwords Edition 1.4 – November, 2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4660-7442-2

      * * * *

      FOREWORD

      The Suzi B. Mysteries are a continuation of the 15-book series of Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries, in which Suzi B. is a featured character. If you haven’t read any of them it might help you to know a little background information about these characters.

      Attorney Peter Sharp’s wife Myra threw him out of their home (which she owned before they were married), due to a conflict of their philosophies about legal representation: she was a prosecutor with the District Attorney’s office, and Peter was a defender of those poor unfortunate people ‘wrongfully’ accused of crimes by his wife’s gang of mean prosecutors.

      For a while Peter stayed in their back yard on a dilapidated old Chris Craft cabin cruiser he was restoring, until Melvin Braunstein, a former law school classmate, arranged for him to rent a slip in Marina del Rey California. Peter had the old boat trucked there, launched at the boatyard and towed to the slip. He then moved aboard and started making minor court appearances for Melvin, who operated his own small law practice from a houseboat in the Marina on the same dock as Peter’s boat.

      When Melvin died in a plane crash, Peter inherited his former classmate’s modest law practice, along with the office manager that came with it - Melvin’s thirteen-year old step-daughter Suzi, a Chinese computer genius - and her huge St. Bernard.

      Pursuant to a request in Melvin’s Will, the court appointed Peter as Suzi’s legal guardian, and through a series of misfortunes that miraculously worked out, they wound up living on a beautiful 50-foot Grand Banks trawler-yacht.

      The Suzi B.

      Sooner or later, in each of his legal cases, Peter usually wound up butting heads with his ex-wife, who Suzi adores and is constantly scheming to get back into the Sharp household. There’s also Stuart Schwartzman, Peter’s old friend and frequent client, who is the most entrepreneurial person in Southern California – and Jack Bibberman, the best private investigator that Peter ever met.

      When Peter wasn’t having expensive Patrón Margaritas at one of the marina’s local watering holes, he was usually involved in some losing legal case that little Suzi inevitably solved, leaving Peter with the impression that he was really as good as he thought he was. Suzi started to resent Peter always getting the credit, and these Suzi B. Mysteries chronicle what happens when she decides to go out on her own and solve some crimes.

      The same cast of characters is still around from the original series, and they inevitably get ‘drafted’ to help Suzi out… but make no mistakes who is really solving the cases – as she so successfully did in her first adventure, …Sorry Wrong Number – in which a brave member of the LAPD Bomb Squad had to pull her out of danger.

      All of the Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries are summarized at the end of this book, and if you’re curious about them, more details are at www.LegalMystery.com, so sit back, relax, and read Suzi B.’s 3rd mystery, as told by Suzi’s legal guardian, attorney Peter Sharp.

      It should also be noted that in several places, laws may be mentioned. Please keep in mind that this book is a work of fiction and not intended to be a suggestion for legal advice or necessarily accurate interpretation of any laws this book’s characters cite or discuss.

      Magic Lamp Press • Venice, California

      **********

      Chapter I

      No matter how great a vacation is, I still find myself eagerly looking forward to getting back to sleeping in my own bed in the master stateroom of the luxurious 50-foot Grand Banks trawler/yacht that I’m fortunate enough to be living on with my 13-year-old legal ward Suzi, who thinks she’s the real brains behind our modest law practice.

      On second thought, in several instances she actually did come up with some stuff that helped me win a decent sized case here and there, but I’m the adult, so I get all the credit. Besides, after the unfortunate deaths of her step-father (my ex law partner) in a plane crash, and her mother, in an automobile accident, she definitely doesn’t need the money. In fact, she’s the richest person I know… but it’s getting tough to handle her, because she’s already planning to attend Harvard law, get her license, and then hire me to work for her.

      I don’t know why she wants to spend all the effort to accomplish that, because that’s almost like things already are now.

      I just heard the flaps being lowered, so I guess we’re getting pretty close to landing at LAX, where my car service will have a driver waiting for me with a sign that says Sharp. That’s the standard way that livery drivers let arriving passengers know which Lincoln Town car they’re supposed to ride in.

      I’ve been away for the past couple of weeks, so I think I’ll use one of the amenities this airline offers to watch the local news and see if anything interesting is going on in Los Angeles.

      The TV screen shows a familiar aerial shot of Marina del Rey, where my boat is parked. That’s a pretty common sight on local news, and they often show an aerial shot like this at the beginning of a news broadcast… but as I put my airline-provided cheap earphones on, I see that the picture is zooming in on one particular dock… and to my surprise, I see that it’s my dock – and my bitter ex-wife, now Los Angeles’ top prosecutor, is preparing to make a statement.

      The studio announcer brings her on: and now, live, direct from Marina del Rey California, our District Attorney, Mizz Myra Scot Sharp, will address the press.

      There are a couple of things I’ve learned about some people I know during the past fifteen years or so and the first one is to never get between my friend Stuart and a buffet counter. The second one is to never get between my ex-wife and a TV camera, because making either mistake will cause you to suffer some serious stampede injuries. Ah, there she is now… looking as good as ever. Boy, did I ever screw up that marriage.

      "We are now at the Bar Harbor Anchorage in Marina del Rey, where the local Coast Guard is cooperating with the Department of Homeland Security in seizing a large yacht, the occupants of which are persons of interest for participating in violation of several matters concerning national security… some of which might even be linked to what is believed to be a terrorist group that has been committing hate crimes of vandalism against local churches and synagogues.

      "As a full disclosure, I’d like the public to know that this vessel belongs to my ex-husband, attorney Peter Sharp, and his female 13-year-old legal ward, who is now being taken into custody and will be brought to my office. Notwithstanding the fact that I am very well acquainted with both attorney Sharp and the minor being taken into custody, this will not deter me in any way from prosecuting any alleged crimes to the fullest extent of my ability, in the interest of serving my duty to the public.

      Attorney Sharp has reportedly been out of state on vacation for the past several weeks and is not necessarily a suspect, but we will be bringing him in for questioning as soon as he is located.

      Maybe it would have been a better idea if I answered that ad and applied for the job of manager at the Pioneer Inn, the place in Lahaina where I usually stay when visiting the island. It’s across the street from the famous Banyan tree, one of the largest-rooted trees in the world, and under which is a great place to just sit and read… away from the kid, and especially away from my bitter ex-wife, who is always trying to lock me up for one thing or another

      * * * *

      When a young lady gets married for the first time, in her mind, it is the beginning of something great for her life… little does she know that it’s going to be downhill from that day on, especially when she finally figures out that the guy she ‘settled’ for cannot be molded into what she envisioned as the perfect man she always wanted.

      And, if and when everything hits the fan and they separate, it’s quite common for her to always detest her ex-husband, because he’s the guy who stole her ‘happily ever after,’ which is bad enough if she’s just a normal bitter ex-wife – but when she’s the county’s tough, top prosecutor, with all of the assets of the entire Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles District Attorney’s Bureau of Investigation at her disposal, her poor ex-husband must spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder and sleeping with one eye open.

      I don’t have to watch any more news today. I’ve seen enough to know that I’d better make myself scarce for a while until the dust settles and I have a chance to talk to that precocious genius brat of mine, who has now caused me to have no yacht to sleep on.

      As instructed, I followed instructions and turned my cell phone off about five hours ago, when this plane took off

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1