The Perfect Teacher

The Perfect Teacher, John Fulghum Mysteries, Vol. IV, by E. W. Farnsworth takes you through the intriguing exploits of hard-boiled Boston area private investigator, John Fulghum with the services of his friends, Ken Mander of the CIA, and Nigel Pounce of Boston Homicide, to unravel the secrets of Fulghum’s latest case. Fulghum, and his long-time girlfriend, Boston Globe archivist Sylvia Blackwood, go undercover to solve a murder at a small Catholic college in the Greater Boston area. The case puts both their lives in danger as their performances in their respective classrooms earns them respect and even adulation among their students, fellow faculty and the administration alike. From this experience, Blackwood sees the path to her third Pulitzer Prize, while Fulghum returns to Jack Daniels and Marlboro cigarettes in his smoky office above Joe’s Ice Cream Shop in Bedford. Can Fulghum’s longstanding relationship with Blackwood be sustained after their trial by fire? Or will the dark facts of life as a private investigator overshadow their bond?

Author Biography

E. W. Farnsworth lives and writes in Arizona. Over two hundred ten of his short stories were published in a variety of venues from London to Hong Kong in the period 2014 through 2017. Published in 2015 were his collected Arizona westerns Desert Sun, Red Blood, his global mystery/thriller about combating cryptocurrency crimes Bitcoin Fandango, his John Fulghum Mysteries about a hard-boiled Boston detective and Engaging Rachel, an Anderson romance/thriller, the latter two by Zimbell House Publishing. Published by Zimbell House during 2016 were Farnsworth’s Pirate Tales, John Fulghum Mysteries, Vol. II, Baro Xaimos: A Novel of the Gypsy Holocaust, The Black Marble Griffon & Other Disturbing Tales, Among Water Fowl and Other Entertainments, Fairy Tales and Other Fanciful Short Stories, and The Wiglaff Tales, Book I of The Wiglaff Chronicles. In addition to Blue Is for Murder, John Fulghum Mysteries, Vol. III, and The Perfect Teacher, John Fulghum Mysteries, Vol. IV, Zimbell House will publish Farnsworth’s The Emergence of the Shaman, Book II of The Wiglaff Chronicles in 2017. Published by AudioArcadia in England in 2016 were DarkFire at the Edge of Time: Twenty Visionary Science Fiction Tales, Nightworld: A Novel of Virtual Reality, The Black Arts and Black Secrets. Forthcoming from AudioArcadia in 2017 are Odd Angles on the 1950s, The Otio in Nogotio and DarkFire Continuum: Ten Science Fiction Tales of the Apocalypse. Farnsworth’s Dead Cat Bounce, an Inspector Allhoff novel, was published in 2016 by Pro Se Productions, which will also publish the author’s Desert Sun, Red Blood, Volume II, The Secret Adventures of Agents Salamander and Crow and a series of three Al Katana superhero novels in 2017 and 2018. E. W. Farnsworth is now working on an epic poem, The Voyage of the Spaceship Arcturus, about the future of humankind when humans, avatars and artificial intelligence must work together to instantiate a second Eden after the Chaos Wars bring an end to life on Earth. For updates, please see www.ewfarnsworth.com.