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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.
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.
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.
Fact: Lincoln often used his hat as a travelling file cabinet. The Marx letter is a real document from the Working Men's Association of Europe, currently in the files of the Library of Congress. In 1865, Immigrants often went straight into the Union army from the boats on which they arrived in New York. Emancipation of the slaves wasn't the only reason people hated Lincoln. He also enlarged the Federal government; encroached on State's rights; trampled property rights (slave ownership); and curtailed the individualism of southerners.
Fiction: Abraham Lincoln was far from being a socialist.
Buckeye Barrister Series.
deadly aduit
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 new direction when a svelte society matron parks her Mercedes at his front door and hires him to investigate a large fund in which she and her business-mogul husband are both trustees.
Doesn't sound too dangerous--until bullets begin flying because the bookmakers in Las Vegas are discovered laundering their take from college football betting through the FUND. Then our intrepid hero finds himself in the middle of one deadly adult.
Dead But still ticking
Down 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 group called Al Shabaab; to a crazy Ukrainian widow; to a headstrong marijuana farmer. Only the low ratio of a radio-active element, polonium, to Winston's gargantuan body size saves him from polonium poisoning, as he winds up in a hospital bed while looking into these matters.
Recapping where he ate, what he ate, and who fed it to him the day before. leads him to the perpetrator of his attempted murder via polonium ingestion. Others, including Robert Steinglass were not so lucky, as they turn up dead but still ticking.
muscles, music & 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, will now play second fiddle to solving the Maestro's murder. The two cases conflate, for the unsuspecting attorney in the city of Bruges, Belgium, where he's gone to prepare the defense of his friend. There, he encounters Pharmae Bruxelles, a subsidiary of the Aiden Life Pharmaceutical Company, owned by Heinrich Wabstmann, the richest man in Columbus, Ohio. Wabstmann is also Board President of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and his friendship with its former narcissistic Maestro, Janic Vadea, whom he hired, has made them thick as thieves. The Symphony Board's force-out of Vadea has enraged Wabstmann and turned him against the new Maestro.
Vadea's Serbian family just happens to be the biggest supplier of stem cells for a new miracle drug developed by the pharmaceutical company Wabstmann runs. Never mind that selling stem cells to U.S. drug companies is illegal.
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: The mogul's beautiful, but dishonest, lawyer and lover, who's 25 years his junior; A rival mafia-like developer who's tried to cheat him by encroaching on his deals; and, an ancient Seminole tribal chief well known for his radical tribal advocacy and his naturalist tree-hugging tendencies in the area.
Bullets fly when it turns out the mogul's lawyer lover/stands to inherit all his holdings, the mafia boss starts looking like a chief suspect in his murder, and the Seminal chief begins ominously hanging Indian dream catcher talismans from the door frames of every structure built on the dead mogul's land. Of course it doesn't help any that the land is ancient tribal Indian land of great religious significance to all Seminoles. Everyone seems to be getting entangled in the dream catchers, webs with no way out unless Winston can prove who the murderer is.
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. Marty, on the other hand, achieved only a high school education. Her grammar is poor. She divorced a plumber who sexually abused her, and now she lives in a trailer with her two young children and her friend Jane, a gay gun enthusiast who owns a 9 millimeter pistol and rides a motorcycle she won in a poker game.
The rescue of motorists trapped in a thirty foot deep sink hole under a roadway has thrown Marty and Ehrlich together to shore up the pit with a steel caisson for safety purposes and to work out the difficult problems with PTSD they both have.
Buckeye Barrister Series.
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 them.
He overcomes this at the end of WWII by volunteering as the oldest sailor on a fleet of American boats used to transport displaced Holocaust survivors to Palestine through a British blockade. Astride two worlds, assimilation was a big problem for him, but spiritual values learned early in life l led him to amazing consequences.
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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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