John Fulghum Mysteries, Vol. I, is full of neo-nior short stories dedicated to the Private Investigator, John Fulghum, that just happens to be a decent, brilliant former war hero and gumshoe. Working out of an unlikely second-story office in Greater Boston, he solves crimes that no one else will handle because they do not fit the parameters or jurisdiction of normal police work. They are dirty crimes, involving savage methods and little-understood societal forces most people would rather ignore than address. In the process of solving his crimes, Fulghum, often at the risk of his life, works with his like-minded friends, Officer Nigel Pounce of Boston Homicide, Randy Mortenson-the ex-Special Forces soldier, or Kenneth Mander-the shadowy clandestine CIA operative. Fulghum lives on the edge of the law and always beyond the limits of propriety, and his solutions do not extend to the politically-correct society that condones and often harbors the evil criminals that he hunts down. His solace for being a cleaner-up of filth lies in his racing forms, his Jack Daniels whisky and his Marlboro cigarettes. His life is a series of journeys and returns, but the center of his universe remains the same: honor and justice in a world without either.

Author Biography

E.W. Farnsworth is a former military officer, contractor, and a current consultant to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. He lives and writes in sunny Arizona. Farnsworth's romance/thriller, Engaging Rachel, will appear from Zimbell House Publishing LLC in December 2015. His collected westerns and spy stories will be separately published under contract later this year. Bitcoin Fandango, Farnsworth's picaresque novel about global intrigue in cryptocurrency enforcement appeared from Greenman Arizona Press in March 2015, and is now on sale worldwide. Farnsworth has had fifty short stories published in numerous anthologies in the U.K. and the U.S. during 2015; including many in Zimbell House Publishing, LLC anthologies. Some of E.W. Farnsworth's sci-fi stories and modern fables are available online from Ether Books, and Jotters United in the U.K., and Fictuary.com in the U.S. Two of his John Fulghum mysteries will be available online in 2015 at IndelibleCHAOS in India. 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. An interview with E.W. Farnsworth is featured on the Zimbell House Publishing, LLC website, http: //www.zimbellhousepublishing.com/author-spotlight/e-w-farnsworth/ For continuous updates on the current and forthcoming works of E.W. Farnsworth, please see his website: http: //www.ewfarnsworth.com