Ultimate Sacrifices
To be released July 13-14, 2024
Shot and later physically beaten for her advocacy of gun control, Senator Victoria Lincoln is denied the adoption of a new baby.
Kidnapped and confined outside the country, Chief Justice Cantwell, could be the Supreme Court's majority vote favoring declaring ownership of semi-automatic rifles to be illegal.
But when he's murdered, clerk Wally Tanimar, can no longer get Judge Cantwell's opinion finished to break the Court's tie decision.
Sounds hopeless until a Department of Justice employee finds a way to get the sick Judge, himself, back to America after more and more mass shootings.
David M. Selcer is a former attorney and author of The Buckeye Barrister Mystery Series consisting of Five books. He is also the award-winning author of Lincoln's Hat and the TEA Movement's Anger, and The Old Stories.
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David Selcer
David Selcer graduated from Northwestern University, where he studied in the Medill School of Journalism. He then obtained his law degree from The Ohio State University College of Law in Columbus, Ohio, today called the Moritz School of Law. Thereafter, he worked at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Washington, D.C. before going into the private practice of law. He has tried many class action lawsuits in the civil rights area. He retired from his management labor law practice in 2005 to writing historical fiction novels and mysteries.
His novel, "Lincoln's Hat and the TEA Movement's Anger" won a first place award in the international Chanticleer Book Review Awards contest in 2017. His novel, "The Old Stories" (Da Alt Geshikhtem) is on the virtual Jewish Book Council Tour for 2020-2021. It has been reviewed in the Jewish News for southwest Florida and the Jewish News in Ohio.
He also authors mysteries for a series called Buckeye Barrister Mysteries featuring Wiliam H. Barchrist III, Esq, an overweight, underpaid lawyer. whose main source of transportation is a motor scooter in Columbus, Ohio, where he represents small-time criminals and practices divorce law. Attorney Barchrist moved to Columbus after barely escaping disbarment...
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DREAM CATCHER MURDERS
Ohio lawyer, Winston Barchrist III, finds himself out of his league when he flies to Sarasota to save his client's Florida land investment from souring during the "Great Recession." Instead, he discovers the client's partner, a Florida real estate mogul, murdered in his penthouse atop the city's snazziest hotel.
The local cops want to blame him, but Winston comes up with other suspects: 1) the mogul's beautiful, but dishonest, lawyer and lover, who's 25 years....
Lincoln's hat
The Civil War is about to end, but journalist, Harlan Pomeroy, has not accomplished his purpose, which is to kill Abraham Lincoln. In Pomeroy's eyes, Lincoln is a socialist ruining the country by flooding it with German, Irish and Italian immigrants to use as cannon fodder in the Union's army. So he tries to ruin Lincoln with the lie that the President's real reason for fighting the war is to foment a socialist class struggle. A letter signed by Karl Marx congratulating the President for freeing the slaves, found in the stove-pipe hat shot off Lincoln's head during a failed assassination attempt, will be used to spread this fake news.
ultimate sacrifices
Shot and later physically beaten for her advocacy of gun control, Senator Victoria Lincoln is denied the adoption of a new baby.
Kidnapped and confined outside the country, Chief Justice Cantwell, could be the Supreme Court's majority vote favoring declaring ownership of semi-automatic rifles to be illegal.
But when he's murdered, clerk Wally Tanimar, can no longer get Judge Cantwell's opinion finished to break the Court's tie decision...
muscles, music and murder
Sitting front row center at the Columbus Symphony Orchestra's opening night concert, overweight and underpaid attorney, Winston Barchrist III, is shocked as its new Russian Maestro, Igor Bashenko, is shot during the finale of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture - the one where real cannons boom at the end.
Barchrist's pro bono defense of his best friend against the homicide of a Belgian body builder during Columbus's Arnold Schwarzenegger Fitness Classic...
Deadly adult
Winston Barchrist III, a former big time corporate attorney who narrowly escaped disbarment, is now a 300 pound moped riding lawyer, turning his life around with a new girlfriend and a reinvented career as a sole practitioner in a flea-bag office above a Dairy Mart in Columbus, Ohio.
Mostly , his cases consist of defending small-time hoods and negotiating simple divorces, but his life takes an abrupt....
closure
Ex-Marine, Larry Ehrlich (Ehrlich), is back from Afghanistan erecting steel part-time for his father’s company, Zenith Steel, and studying for a masters degree in criminology, when he falls hard for Marty. A serious #Me Too advocate, she’s the first female iron worker in the county, and she’s a blond bombshell who received her job through the affirmative action apprenticeship program of the United Steelworkers. Each of them is from the “wrong side of the tracks” in the mind of the other. He’s a frustrated rich kid whose failure drove him to join the marines when he flunked the medical boards...
the old stories
A seventeen year old Jewish Russian immigrant apprenticed to a metal worker takes advantage of Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 to desert the navy at Vladivostok and escape to Manchuria. He has left the world of pogroms with no education other than his Talmud Torah lessons in the Ukraine and entered the new world through Vancouver, Canada, instead of Ellis Island. After marrying a well educated Rabbi's daughter from Poland provided by a matchmaker, he moves to Cleveland, where he is sidelined by his sons because of his foreignness and lack of education which embarrasses...
Dead But Still Ticking
Own and out overweight lawyer Winston Barchrist III, is about to shutter his law practice, when a five million dollar check arrives with a note from elegant gay attorney, Robert Steinglass, requesting a luncheon meeting to explain. While awaiting Steinglass at the restaurant, Winston learns he's died under questionable circumstances.
What was the five million dollars for? Who killed Robert Steinglass? The answers lead Winston into a melange of interests, from those of a Middle Eastern terrorist..
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Ohio lawyer, Winston Barchrist III, finds himself out of his league when he flies to Sarasota to save his client's Florida land investment from souring during the "Great Recession." Instead, he discovers the client's partner, a Florida real estate mogul, murdered in his penthouse atop the city's snazziest hotel.
Tony Parsons
Very inventive plot, lots of twists and turns. But the editing is virtually nonexistent. Words are misspelled, missing or misused ("bear" legs). Perhaps worse are the continuity errors: a check morphs from five million dollars to five billion. A character's name alternates between Harold and Herald. If you can overlook the editing (or lack thereof), the story is compelling and the characters are interesting.
Melinda smith
Barquisimeto was a hotshot lawyer in Chicago that got blackballed for not reporting something he should have. He moves to Ohio, finally hanging his own shingle since no one would hire him. He gets a big case and before he knows it he is being chased, shot at, and in the middle os several cases he didn’t bargain for. Good reading.
Roxanne S
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David Selcer graduated from Northwestern University, where he studied in the Medill School of Journalism. He then obtained his law degree...
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