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    The Magic Bullets: Suzi B. Mystery #5
    The Magic Bullets: Suzi B. Mystery #5
    The Magic Bullets: Suzi B. Mystery #5
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    The Magic Bullets: Suzi B. Mystery #5

    By Gene Grossman

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    Gene Grossman, author of the popular 15-book series of Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries is also known for his fondness for the 'locked-room' mystery genre, and this time presents us with a new version: the 'locked-drawer' mystery.

    This is the 5th book featuring attorney Peter Sharp's 13-year-old legal ward Suzi, who once again is using her superior intellect and computer skills to try and find out how several murders could have been committed with a gun that absolutely could not have been used in the shootings.

    Once again Suzi puts her knowledge about ballistics to use - the things she learned in Peter Sharp Legal Mystery #5 - ...Until Proven Innocent, when she helped her legal guardian Peter Sharp gain acquittal for his client.

    She must have done a good job in that case, because that story was awarded a Global eBook First Prize in the Mystery Category... and you may feel the same way about this adventure of hers when she shows off her talents of deduction at a final 'show-down' dinner on Peter's law firm's yacht.

    If you enjoy matching wits with a 13-year-old, you will enjoy this book as much as the many young readers have.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMagic Lamp Press
    Release dateAug 12, 2013
    ISBN9781301389285
    The Magic Bullets: Suzi B. Mystery #5
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    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.

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      The Magic Bullets - Gene Grossman

      FOREWORD

      The Suzi B. Mysteries are a continuation of the 15-book series of Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries, in which little 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 tough prosecutor with the District Attorney’s office, and Peter was a defender of those throngs of 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 attempting to restore, until Melvin Braunstein, a former law school classmate, arranged for him to rent a hard-to-get forty-five foot slip in Marina del Rey California

      The old back-yard Chris Craft

      Peter had the old boat trucked there, launched at the boatyard and towed to the slip. He then moved aboard and started making 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 little 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 and several successful case settlements that miraculously worked out, they are now living on the Suzi B, a beautiful 50-foot Grand Banks trawler-yacht that they were able to buy.

      The Suzi B.

      Sooner or later in each of his legal cases, Peter usually winds up butting heads with his prosecutor ex-wife Myra, who Suzi adores and is constantly scheming to get back into the Sharp household.

      And there’s 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 isn’t having expensive Patrón Margaritas at one of the marina’s local watering holes, he’s usually involved in some losing legal case that little Suzi inevitably solves, leaving Peter with the impression that he’s actually as good as he thinks he is. 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 to 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 solo 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 please sit back, relax, and read Suzi B.’s fifth mystery, as told by Suzi’s legal guardian, attorney Peter Sharp.

      It should also be noted that in several places, laws and legal procedure may be mentioned... but please keep in mind that each of these books is a work of fiction, which means that the author may occasionally take the liberty of altering some things to fit into the plot, and just like the legal dramas on television, should not be taken as legal advice or an accurate interpretation of any laws or procedures this book’s characters cite or discuss.

      At the end of the book is an Appendix that contains some material the author used for reference – and where you may find a more detailed explanation of issues discussed in the book.

      Magic Lamp Press • Venice, California

      *****

      I: The Mayor’s Cake

      It isn’t often that I take pleasure in our fair city’s local news, because like so many other large municipalities, our TV stations have turned the evening news into a combination crime report and human interest program, proving the old saying that if it bleeds, it leads.

      They then follow up with some clueless on-the-scene reporter standing in front of some location where a crime took place at some recent time in the past, that attempts to interview some non-witnesses who only offer remarks about how loved the victim was, or how quiet a neighbor the criminal was. This causes me to suspect that they must have some file footage stored away of a generic witness who always says the same thing – and they bring it out and play it after every crime.

      But today it’s a little different – because it’s July the 5th, so if it’s patriotic it leads… and we’re being treated to stories about firework displays and a tragedy that took place in a very ritzy neighborhood on the west side of town during yesterday’s early evening.

      The mayor was having a patriotic-themed party at his mansion and invited many of the local big-shots. The event was a catered affair, and while the host and all of his guests were seated outside under the large rented tent set up near the swimming pool, some firecrackers were going off nearby.

      The party attendees all thought that the evening’s fireworks were starting, so they continued ignoring everything but their own self-serving conversations until something ripped through tent’s roof and continued down into the cake, causing some of the frosting to fly up in the air and onto the mayor’s chubby face.

      While several city employees tripped over each other trying to be first to wipe the mayor’s face, another guest took a closer look at where the cake’s flying frosting came from and noticed a hole in the top layer.

      The caterer came over to inspect it, and after following the hole down a layer or two discovered what had caused the tent rip and airborne frosting: a bullet.

      The Chief of Police was also a guest that day, and using his best fear-mongering tactic, suggested that this might have been an assassination attempt on the mayor, and advised all persons present to evacuate the premises so that he might have a mobile command station set up for a full-blown investigation, and to protect the mayor from another attempt.

      Fortunately there was another guest there who brought everyone back to a state of reality by informing that their evacuation would mean no face-time on television when the news crews would arrive… and that great suggestion was successfully offered by none other than the county’s District Attorney, Ms. Myra Scot Sharp – my bitter ex-wife… a person who is known to become a danger to anyone daring to step in between her and a news camera.

      *****

      An in-the-field reporter is standing in front of the Mayor’s mansion and introducing who he is going to be bringing on camera:

      "We are here at the Mayor’s residence, where a gun has been fired, causing some debris to land on the mayor. Fortunately, he was not injured, thanks to what we have heard was the fast action of our police chief.

      Also in attendance at this wonderful patriotic party the mayor hosted was our District Attorney, who will now be making a statement.

      Myra steps in front of the camera, and I can tell that she’s trying hard to hold back the dirty look she wanted to give the news reporter for taking so long with his introduction. Being the complete ‘player’ that she is, Myra looks over towards the reporter, fakes a slight grin as she looks at him, and begins her statement.

      We are now in the process of determining what the motive behind this gunshot was, but rest assured that our department’s Bureau of Investigation will do a thorough job of finding out who caused this incident.

      Whenever I see her display such pomposity, I regret helping her get elected to that office.

      Maybe it’s unfair for me to even think a thing like that, but subsequent reports that the hole in the tent roof was directly above the cake that got ‘shot’ will lead even the most avid conspiracy nut to conclude that the entire incident was caused by an errant bulled fired off into the air by some neighbor trying a little too hard to get into the July 4th spirit.

      *****

      I have no doubt that Myra was under a lot of pressure from the local politicians, so she had to cover all of her bases while investigating the mayor’s bullet, and sent details of the physical details of it to all law enforcement agencies, hoping to find a match to any other bullet used in a crime.

      Unfortunately no match was found, so a small article buried somewhere in one of

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