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    String of Pearls: The Razor and Edge Mysteries
    String of Pearls: The Razor and Edge Mysteries
    String of Pearls: The Razor and Edge Mysteries
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    String of Pearls: The Razor and Edge Mysteries

    By Russ Crossley

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    When an elderly neighbor near their Staten Island home is robbed while in hospital Razor and Edge Investigations spring into action. Anxious to right a wrong they soon discover the thief is too close to home.

    Another Razor and Edge mystery, the Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin for the 21st century.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher53rd Street Publishing
    Release dateSep 12, 2017
    ISBN9781386141747
    String of Pearls: The Razor and Edge Mysteries
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    Russ Crossley

    International selling author, Russ Crossley writes science fiction and fantasy, and mystery/suspense under the name R.G. Crossley. His latest science fiction satire set in the far future, Revenge of the Lushites, is a sequel to Attack of the Lushites released in 2011. The latest title in the series was released in the fall of 2013. Both titles are available in e-book and trade paperback. He has sold several short stories that have appeared in anthologies from various publishers including; WMG Publishing, Pocket Books, and St. Martins Press. He is a member of SF Canada and is past president of the Greater Vancouver Chapter of Romance Writers of America. He is also an alumni of the Oregon Coast Professional Fiction Writers Master Class taught by award winning author/editors, Kristine Katherine Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. Feel free to contact him on Facebook, Twitter, or his website http:www.russcrossley.com.  He loves to hear from readers  

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      String of Pearls - Russ Crossley

      String of Pearls

      String of Pearls

      A Razor and Edge Mystery

      Russ Crossley

      53rd Street Publishing

      String of Pearls

      A Razor and Edge Mystery

      Published by 53rd Street Publishing

      Copyright 2013 Russ Crossley

      All rights reserved

      Cover art copyright © isoga - Fotolia.com

      Cover designed by R. Edgewood

      Cover design and layout copyright 2017 by 53rd Street Publishing

      53rd Street Publishing

      Head office: Gibsons B.C. Canada

      www.53rdstreetpublishing.com

      This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental.

      Contents

      String of Pearls

      About the Author

      Other books by the Author

      Also available from 53rd Street Publishing.

      String of Pearls

      A Razor and Edge Mystery

      Iturned each page of the New Age Heroes comic book slowly, careful not to hum. I wasn’t reading it. I was biding my time waiting for Edge to say something, anything really, since I’d entered

      the

      room

      .

      Man, was it hot today. The outside temperature had been over ninety every day for the past week. At least his parent’s recreation room was below ground so it was a little cooler

      in

      here

      .

      As was our custom we met in the faux wood-paneled recreation room. It is the headquarters of The Razor and Edge Detective Agency. As he usually did Edge sat in his Barcalounger recliner spooning rice crisp cereal and milk into his mouth. And as usual I was sitting on the aging gray sofa with the sagging cushions that too often force me to shift my bottom to escape an out of control spring.

      On the aluminum TV tray next to his chair laid today’s issue of the New York Times with the headline that caused Edge to fall into silence the moment I placed it on

      the

      tray

      .

      His grey-green eyes were fixed on a spot on the wall across the room. It was my best friends habit to consider all the known facts before making any verbal observations. Edge has no tolerance for small talk. It had been fifteen minutes and my nerves threatened to overwhelm me unless he

      spoke

      soon

      .

      Not that the silence was unusual

      with

      Edge

      .

      Morton Edge and I have been friends since we met in the third

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