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    Plot Twist
    Plot Twist
    Plot Twist
    Ebook20 pages17 minutes

    Plot Twist

    By Steven D. Bennett

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    Two men working construction in San Diego are given the job of remodeling a La Jolla home once owned by mystery writer Raymond Chandler. When the story of Chandler's supposedly buried money resurfaces, their interest changes into finding out if those rumors were true, though neither have any intention of sharing what is found. And as one man suspects the other of sleeping with his girl friend, he plots to not only get the treasure, but at the same time get rid of the competition.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteven D. Bennett
    Release dateApr 18, 2018
    ISBN9780463331187
    Plot Twist
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    Steven D. Bennett

    I was born in Boston and grew up in Connecticut and San Diego, which gave me a good background in both history and tanning. I have four children and six grand-children, remarkable in that I am only 35. The fact that I have been married for almost 36 years is the result of an in-utero wedding and honeymoon.I have published many short stories, poems, songs, and recently wrote and directed a musical melodrama that was performed in the San Diego area. With six books under my belt (THE PATH OF DAYS, TRACE THE DEAD EYE, HUMOR OF THE GOSPELS, HUMOR OF THE GOSPELS Daily Study, THRONE and THE CHUCK-IT LIST) I am looking for a bigger belt to stuff the seventh, which hopefully will be completed in time for the Christmas season. It is about a writer who finds to his horror that a mistake he made on page 47 completely invalidates the plot, forcing him to thus track down and kill anyone who has bought the book lest they spread the truth about his miniscule talent. It is titled DON'T READ THIS! and looks to be a best-seller, unless people take the title literally. Fortunately, nothing I write can be taken literally. It is also fortunate I did not stay with the working title: DON'T BUY THIS! Personally, I don't buy a word of it.I also have a blog, I Wandered Off the Tour: A Journey In Self-Publishing, which contains my thoughts and experiences through the tormenting process of creation.Other than writing, I like listening to the same dozen albums and re-runs of the same dozen TV shows I've heard and seen hundreds of times, to the endless delight of my wife.

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      Plot Twist - Steven D. Bennett

      Plot Twist

      by

      Steven D. Bennett

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      Copyright © 2018 by Steven D. Bennett

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      We were up on the mesa, building a deck in the backyard of a house that butted up to the 805 near Balboa in Clairemont, and I was miserable. The Santa Ana sun we could avoid in the shade of a huge pepper tree next door, but there was no escaping the continued rumbling of the freeway directly over the fence. It had me on edge. The lack of food in Jim's stomach was affecting him the same.

      When's lunch? he asked, for the third time in an hour.

      Noon.

      He put down the nail gun and stretched his back. You know what we need?

      Lunch?

      He looked surprised. Yeah, that, too. We need a job in La Jolla.

      I shook my head and drove in another nail.

      I'd been working for a real contractor, license and all, when I met Jim. He was a new hire, another guy escaping the rain of the northwest for the beaches of San Diego. The job was a complete teardown and, to his credit, he could do just about anything; roofing, framing, drywall. Not the best at any, but fast and dumb, meaning that as long as you kept him fed he'd work like a dog digging for

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