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.

    Unavailable
    The Naughty Librarian
    Unavailable
    The Naughty Librarian
    Unavailable
    The Naughty Librarian
    Ebook293 pages4 hours

    The Naughty Librarian

    By Dave Gehrke

    2/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    There’s nothing much out of the ordinary about Rowdy and Libby; he’s a mystery writer, she’s a librarian. They make a lovely couple. Except on weekends. That’s when Libby trades in her library card and becomes a call girl while Rowdy abandons his computer and secretly stalks her, hoping to discover what she won’t tell him.

    Rowdy would be more open about his quest, but he has his own problem. He’s mostly dead. In order to drive up his slumping book sales, Libby suggested Rowdy fake his own death; sort of a posthumous pump-and-dump. So Rowdy did a faux one-and-a-half gainer off the Uptown Bridge and created a new identity for himself. And his books flew off the shelves. Unfortunately being dead made it rather difficult to collect the royalties from his increased book sales; leaving the semi-dead Rowdy in financial limbo.

    If things weren’t bad enough, somebody sticks a knife in Rowdy’s publisher, the man holding the untouchable royalties, and Rowdy and Libby each suspect the other of doing the deed. Soon the pair are scrambling to stay one step ahead of the cops while trying to hide their secrets from each other; secrets that could either break up their relationship, prove their innocence, or put one or both of them in jail. All depending on how and when the secrets are revealed. The couples’ only way out; come up with a story that matches all the evidence but only some of the truth.

    Then all Rowdy has to do is sit down with the detectives and tell them the whole convoluted story; from beginning to end. And convince them it’s all true.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDave Gehrke
    Release dateJun 21, 2014
    ISBN9781310079023
    Unavailable
    The Naughty Librarian
    Author

    Dave Gehrke

    I grew up reading comic books in my uncle’s toy and hobby store. I didn’t know how to read at first so I contented myself staring at the drawings while trying to figure out what the words meant. I believe the first word I learned was “Pow!”. “The” wasn’t far behind. Then my uncle started sending me home with a comic, often, purportedly so my parents could read them to me, but also because he grew tired of me being in the way of paying customers.I learned two things from that experience; how to manipulate my uncle, which came in handy as I grew older, and how to read at an early age, which served me well my entire life.Reading opened up a whole new world for me; a world of knowledge, entertainment and imagination, and that world lay just across the alley from me at the Dyckman Free Library. By the time I reached the second grade my family had named me “Professor”. By the eighth grade I’d demonstrated to Mrs. Dombrowski, the librarian, that had I not only graduated from the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew section, I was well on my way through the adult fiction section and could pass a comprehension quiz on any book I’d already managed to smuggle out of the adult section when she hadn’t been looking.In high school my standard answer to a question from any teacher wondering how I happened to know something esoteric or arcane was “I read that somewhere.” Which also brought a standard groan from my classmates.Writing is a natural evolution from prolific reading. And when I discovered I could wow both my classmates and instructors with my completed writing assignments, I decided at age sixteen that I would someday become a writer of books.Then life got in the way; graduation, marriage, kids, college (I’ve earned three degrees), various business pursuits, various stints at journalism, teaching, coaching, school administration and half a dozen hobbies. But I never forgot about becoming a novelist. So I studied people (future characters); their mannerisms, how they spoke, the way they conversed, what motivated them, how they reacted in various situations, how they expressed their hopes and their dreams, the way one wrinkled her nose when she laughed, the way another tended to begin the answer to any question with “basically”.And I gathered reams of notes; character descriptions, possible storylines, potential plots, locations, time periods, etc. And I continued to read, sometimes for entertainment, sometimes to study the different techniques used by my favorite authors in crafting their books.Then, when the drawers holding my writing notes were overflowing, when my kids were off having kids of their own and I retired to my own semi-isolated place in the countryside, I did what I’d always been meant to do; I started writing books.Life, as they say, goes full circle.Some circles just have larger diameters.

    Read more from Dave Gehrke

    Related to The Naughty Librarian

    Related ebooks

    Mystery For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Cowboys At 50

      Jan 18, 2022

      The Cowboys At 50
      3 min read

    • Article

      Anthony Horowitz

      Mar 25, 2020

      HOW, AS A WRITER, DO YOU RETURN TO A character over multiple books without writing yourself into a corner? This was a problem that confronted Anthony Horowitz a few years back with one of his most famous creations: teenage secret agent Alex Rider. Wi

      3 min read

    • Article

      I’m Known As The Coffin Guy

      Aug 28, 2020

      IT WAS a repulsive act of cruelty and humiliation that shocked people around the world. “Do you want to die fast or slow?” the two burly farmers taunted as they forced Victor Mlotshwa into a coffin. They threatened to douse him in petrol and burn him

      4 min read

    • Article

      Righteous

      Jan 22, 2019

      Righteous
      8 min read

    • Article

      Austin Heat

      Aug 2, 2018

      Austin Heat
      6 min read

    • Article

      Leviathan

      Aug 10, 2022

      After we killed the passengers, we put the bodies in one of the low-pressure, unheated storage compartments. Some people had wanted to have some kind of solemn burial-in-space thing; that was too ghoulish for most of us, though. Mostly the ones we ki

      25 min read

    • Article

      The Penalty

      Nov 5, 2020

      The Penalty
      8 min read

    • Article

      Knowing Me, knowing You

      May 20, 2022

      Knowing Me, knowing You
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Art Of Conversation

      Nov 1, 2023

      The Art Of Conversation
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Time Traveller Returns

      Oct 29, 2018

      The Time Traveller Returns
      7 min read

    • Article

      A Hard Man To Forget

      Jan 8, 2024

      A Hard Man To Forget
      4 min read

    • Article

      PATRICK GOWER: On Paddy

      Sep 11, 2022

      PATRICK GOWER: On Paddy
      10 min read

    • Article

      Pleasure Palace

      Sep 1, 2022

      Pleasure Palace
      15 min read

    • Article

      The Duplex

      Jun 9, 2020

      I moved to Los Angeles to sing. When was this? August? June? I was twenty-nine, and those were shapeless months, when the days blended together and I refused to pull them apart. My landlord was unusually close to her adult son. His name was Jeffrey,

      21 min read

    • Article

      Greek Tragedy

      Dec 7, 2023

      Below is a brief mystery. The solution is one that may require you to put on more than just your standard issue Sherlock Holmes deerstalker. By reading the story carefully, can you determine whodunit? “Hey Boss,” said Officer Hornsby, “You’re gonna w

      3 min read

    • Article

      Lol

      Aug 1, 2023

      Lol
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Kill Registry

      Dec 10, 2022

      My sister chose to use her bullet years ago and ever since she has badgered me to liberate my own from its chamber. Beth leveled her pistol at her husband five years into their marriage, and she has no regrets, which is one of the things I admire abo

      14 min read

    • Article

      Watch Your Step

      Nov 19, 2020

      Watch Your Step
      5 min read

    • Article

      Life After Death

      May 27, 2022

      Life After Death
      14 min read

    • Article

      Park LIFE

      Aug 3, 2022

      We are sitting on a bench in the park on a bright sunny day, and Mr Dear is grumbling. ‘You realise,’ he says, ‘that not so long ago we could have been arrested for just sitting on a park bench, flouting lockdown rules.’ ‘Yes, dear,’ I reply. ‘You d

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Ceremony

      Sep 6, 2022

      It was something. Out of nowhere, I didn’t give a shit about anything for like a month. Like nothing. I mean yeah, there’d been plenty of times where I didn’t give a shit about something. Oh that thing? Yeah, fuck that thing. I did it all the time. M

      5 min read

    • Article

      Never Meet YOUR HEROES?

      Apr 2, 2020

      Never Meet YOUR HEROES?
      7 min read

    Reviews for The Naughty Librarian

    2/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words