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Author Judith White

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About the Author

 

Judith G. White holds a degree in secondary education with a major in history from Western Michigan University.  She currently works part time at The Henry Ford, America’s Greatest History Attraction, where her life has been enriched by meeting dignitaries, entertainment personalities and leaders in business and industry.  She’s traveled throughout the lower forty eight states and toured Great Britain.  History, reading, playing word and trivia games and, of course, writing, is what she likes to do best.  She makes her home in a southern suburb of Detroit along with her husband, Jim; two children, Brandon and Erin; and two dogs, Sadie and Orie.

The Case Files of Sam Flanagan:

A Method to Madness

 

Author: Judith White

Print ISBN:     9781938243561

E-Book ISBN: 9781938243578

Genre: Mystery/Crime

Release date 05/15/2012

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It’s January 1943 and things are slow for Sam Flanagan, Detroit private detective.  He’s about to call it a day and return to the woman he shares a home with; his eighty two year old grandmother, when in walks Chicago socialite Phyllis Killburn. She’s the daughter of the late tire tycoon, Alden Whitaker, and she’s got troubles.  It seems her husband may be stepping out on her with another woman and he’s keeping a big secret as to his involvement with the military.  She wants to know what’s going on and she’s willing to pay big bucks for the information.

Sam travels to the Windy City and looks up his longtime friend, Harry Blevins, journalist for the Chicago Tribune.  With Harry’s assistance, and with the inadvertent ramblings of his grandmother, will Sam be able to put all the pieces together to solve what is happening within the walls of the Whitaker Estate to stop a murder plot? The deeper Sam digs into the case, he uncovers more twists. Does Sam find a method to this madness?

The Case Files of Sam Flanagan:

Sins of the Father

Author: Judith White

Print ISBN:      9781939865076

E-Book ISBN:  9781939865086

Genre: Mystery/Crime

Release Date 03/10/2013

Baker’s Keyboard Lounge, Detroit’s hotspot for jazz---it’s there that Sam runs into his childhood friend, Johnny Delbeck, and Johnny’s got a problem.  A little over three months ago, Johnny and his wife, Grace, took in her niece.  Myrna Lou Stevic had been nothing but trouble for her mother, Grace’s sister, and her step father.  Grace thinks she can turn the girl’s behavior around by getting her into a new school and getting her involved in the church youth group.  One Monday in April, the seventeen year old was sitting on the porch of the Delbeck’s Dearborn home one minute, and in the next, she was gone. Did she just walk away on her own---something she’s done in the past---or did something more sinister occur?  This is what Johnny hires Sam to find out.  Five days before Easter 1943, Sam tries to ensure her presence for the holiday.  But when he starts asking questions, the picture others paint of this girl isn’t pretty, and it’s obvious there are few who really like her.  The Detroit private detective wants to solve Johnny’s problem---and he wants the ending to be a good one.  Can he find the girl and return her to the home in Dearborn, safe and sound?

The Case Files of Sam Flanagan:

Opened Wounds

Author: Judith White

Print ISBN:    9781629891903

eBook ISBN:  9781629891910

Genre: Mystery/Crime

Release Date 01/01/2015

Sam is hot under the collar, and it has nothing to do with the summer swelter! The frail woman waltzed into his office on a steamy Saturday in July, wanting Sam to exonerate her husband of the charge of murder. But the murders occurred over nineteen years ago and the man in question was killed in prison some months back. But that wasn't the worst of it! It just so happens that her husband was Carlo 'the Confessor' Andolucci, the once notorious Purple Gang member. Sam knew this name all too well...Carlo Andolucci had brought devastation to the Flanagan family while employed by Abe Saperstein, head of the group of thugs that terrorized the streets of Detroit. There was no way he'd take on this case to help this woman...or would he? Once he discusses the matter with others, he begins to hear a side of Andolucci he didn't know. Had Sam held on to a belief that was wrong all these years? Only by rethinking his decision to take on this case will answer that. Only by agreeing to investigate would he ever find the truth.

The Case Files of Sam Flanagan:

Drowning in Deception

Author: Judith White

Paperback ISBN: 9781629897400

eBook ISBN: 9781629897417

Genre: Mystery/Crime

Release Date 08/07/2017

In mid September of 1943, Detroit private detective Sam Flanagan is contacted by the husband of a woman who drowned in their backyard pool six weeks ago. Along with the Detroit Police Department, the Wayne County Coroner, Fergus Macgregor, is calling it “accidental”. And without any real evidence pointing in a different direction, that’s all they can do. The husband, Victor Girard, just wants to make sure he knows the whole story behind this tragic occurrence. There are troubling thoughts that continue to linger in his mind; for instance, how could she have been so careless? How could Sondra Girard have done the things she did, prior to jumping in that pool for her nightly swim? When Sam delves into the case, he questions the deceased’s state of mind that fateful evening in early August. Was this really accidental, or was the end result intentional on the part of the woman? Over an almost two week span of investigation, Sam stumbles onto something which is so dark and malevolent, that he finds it difficult to believe that it is happening in his own city.

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