Raymond Paul

This book is an anthology of over 100 very short stories. Author Raymond Paul draws on his life’s experiences, observations and imagination to write a wide variety of stories covering many topics. Although the stories vary in locations, they all speak to the main emotions we all face: love, friendship, and loneliness. If you are interested in the human condition and want examples in small easily digested tales, this may appeal to you.

Last of the Lon Quinncannon legal mysteries, based on the real life murder of a New York dentist in the 1850's. Rich in period detail, always lively, with Lon and his protege Tobias Brendon at the center of a fractious case involving breach of promise suits, writs, counterwrits, faked marriages, faked pregancies, faked evidence, courtroom gymnastics, and, of course, true love.

First Lon Quinncannon mystery, one of the three in which real unsolved crimes are examined by our enignmatic Irish lawyer. New York City and Rhode Island, 1832. A Methodist minister is accused of strangling the factory girl who was pregnant with his child. Includes tidbits of social history - sexual politics, "the house built on baby skulls", wild Methodist camp meetings - in a high-spirited romp.

Explores the real, unsolved New York murder of Helen Jewett, a high class prostitute who was killed in her own bed in 1836. Our fictional heroes are Lon Quinncannon, sardonic Irish lawyer and Davy Corder, young reporter. Full of the details of the absolutely mad rivalry between the many New York newspapers, the corruption and incompetence of almost every public official, and the exuberance of New York City at a time when "we were 200,000 souls in a wooden city". Oh, and Lon solves the case.