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    Urban Legend: Book II Ghost Forest-A 2 Hour Mystery: Urban Legend, #2
    Urban Legend: Book II Ghost Forest-A 2 Hour Mystery: Urban Legend, #2
    Urban Legend: Book II Ghost Forest-A 2 Hour Mystery: Urban Legend, #2
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    Urban Legend: Book II Ghost Forest-A 2 Hour Mystery: Urban Legend, #2

    By lost lodge press

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    The tabloid, the Urban Legend receives a letter invitation to cover the excavation of a Spanish Treasure Galleon. But when Ace reporter Billy Sloan arrives and the site of the dig all she finds if murder and mystery and a chance to lose her life.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherlost lodge press
    Release dateApr 29, 2017
    ISBN9781386848837
    Urban Legend: Book II Ghost Forest-A 2 Hour Mystery: Urban Legend, #2

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      Book preview

      Urban Legend - lost lodge press

      Thank you Peggy, and as always to Chris. 14 months and counting.

      Welcome to the 2-Hour Mysteries series

      From the haunting of Urban Legend to the supernatural of Ghost Detective you’re guaranteed a fast paced page turner.

      Each 2-Hour Mystery is a complete plot driven story with a hook, exciting middle, and a suspenseful end.

      2-Hour Mysteries are stories you can read in one sitting, but with all the twists and turns you’d expect from a 300 page novel.

      Plot driven, fast paced. Less than 100 pages under 5 dollars. The 2-Hour Mysteries series are available in paperback, ebook, and as audio.

      Prologue

      THE 45 FLOORS of the Legend building located in Portland, Oregon are 3 stories above the Wells Fargo sky scraper, making it the tallest structure in the state. William Jennings Legend established Legend Publishing in 1909 as a small tabloid bearing his name. By 1999 Legend had become the largest Publisher in the world and one of the first traditional publishers to adapt digital technologies.

      I rarely go into the Legend building and I like it that way. My Editor, Layton Ratkey always casts an evil eye in my direction and on the rare occasion when Mr. Legend wants to speak with me I end up with a story idea he’d like me to flesh out which is about twice the work of following an assignment by my editor.

      I’m six feet tall and am told that I have an athlete’s body and a sharp tongue to go with it. I’ll acknowledge the muscular body, something I attribute to the martial arts but I take umbrage with the sharp tongue. I say what I see and ask for what I want. Traits I believe make me a good reporter.

      My assignments are loaded onto the Legend webpage where I enter a code. Usually I close my eyes so I can be surprised by what’s on my assignment page.

      I entered my code but for some reason didn’t close my eyes. When the assignment page came up, the working title for my story dominated the page in what must have been 72 point type. Ghost Forest. I pushed back from the computer and took a deep breath. This story would definitely come with some personal baggage and her name was Gale Stromberg.

      My last story involved a group of women who were all having their dreams invaded. They lived in Oregon’s coastal town of Neskowin. While investigating the phenomena of shared dreams I ended up fleeing the dream master with one of the women who by chance was Lesbian, we became friends. 

      Home, and working on the story I had reason to call her to clarify some facts and it came out in the conversation that she had feelings for me. To say the least I was at a loss for words. But after hanging up, I realized that the shell that contains my emotionally unavailable self might have been fractured a bit.

      I grabbed the edge of the computer desk, bellied up and scrolled down to my assignment and what could have been a short history lesson.

      Chapter One

      I SCROLLED BACK and forth on my assignment page. Usually after the working title, in this case Ghost Forest, I would scroll to what is called a log line. This would explain in two or three lines what spin my editor wanted me to put on the story, which in turn would give me an idea of the questions I’d ask my contacts. But as I searched the page I couldn’t find a theme and there was only one contact, name and location only, no phone or e-mail.

      What I found below the name Johnny Mayhan, my contact, read like a history lesson about a seventeenth century battle between a Spanish galleon loaded to the gunnels with gold and silver and a pirate ship named the Peach captained by Jack Berryman.

      For two hundred years from 1565 to 1815 Spanish Galleons sailed from Acapulco to Manila laden with gold and silver. This was a relatively safe route for the Spanish leaving their dreaded English enemy to do battle with pirates all across the Atlantic.

      Fleeing persecution and harassment from the English some of the larger pirate vessels attempted to sail around Cape Horn the southern most tip of South America where the Atlantic and the Pacific collide. Few survived the strong winds, large waves unpredictable current, and ice burgs.

      Pirate captain Jack Berryman guided his four masted schooner, the Peach, and his 85 man crew around the Horn and out across the calm waters of the Pacific. Meanwhile the 150 ton three masted Spanish Galleon Jan Jose was just ten days out of the port of Acapulco sailing at a lazy 5 knots for Manila. The year was 1699.

      The Spanish had been sailing the Pacific treasure route for nearly 150 years encountering few obstacles other than an angry sea. When the Peach pulled to within 500 yards of the Spanish galleon San Jose captain Fernandez de Santillon was surprised. More so when the Peach unfurled the Jolly Roger and opened fire with her 22 cannons. Out gunned the San Jose unloaded her 16 cannons with little effect and beat a hasty retreat up the North American coast hoping for shelter. No match in speed she couldn’t lose the Peach and was battered, suffering damage to her rudder. The San Jose carried 80 pounds of gold, 26 tons of uncoined silver and over 400,000 pesos. For ten days, and with a damaged rudder Santilion led the Peach on a wild chase up the coast, finally anchoring off what in 300 years would be the Oregon coast.

      Captain Berryman saw his chance and sailed to within 100 yards of the smaller ship for the best effect by the short range cannons of the day and let

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