The third chapter of the right brained detectives' mystery, "Death Picks a Blue Palette." The police show up and the Art Center Director gets unhappy, very unhappy.

The second chapter of the Rayanne, Noor and Sandy mystery entitled "Death Picks A Blue Palette." The first body is found.

The first chapter of the first book in the Rayanne, Noor and Sandy mystery series. Rayanne is a portrait artist, a drawing teacher and an accidental detective, whose studio is in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington, D. C. Rayanne and her sidekick Noor, a born again, tough love lesbian, are confronted with a series of murders in the Old Town artists' commmunity that the police want to write off as suicides. Rayanne's only weapons against the murderer are her intuitions, her very skeptical best friend and Noor's lover, Sandy, a killer ex-Marine.

A Boccaccian Tale—Love, mistaken identity and misbehavior in the medieval mode.

Dignity, misbehavin' and Southern ways.

A coming of age tale, growing up in Western Kentucky.

The small-town South and tobacco land. Incest, suicide, love, old men, old ways, Blacks, white folks, the Nixon administration from inside, travelling behind the Iron Curtain. Life ashore and at sea. Making fine art. WWII homecoming. Short stories, poems and essays in the manner of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. Southern writer in the Faulkner tradition, poet, essayist, sailor, delivery boat captain, computer scientist, advisor to presidential appointees, professional photographer, college mathematics teacher, English teacher, artist and traveler.