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World-Class Ghost Mystery: NOTE: Because I feel more strongly about the case, I am republishing this story as true crime/historical fact in April 2008. This edition will be withdrawn. Recently I published a new book that totally redefines the story of the woman who haunts the Hotel del Coronado near San Diego. Using the hotel's own official book (Beautiful Stranger) and other resources, I found startling new evidence that turns the traditional legends on their head. The dead woman was not Kate Morgan, as is commonly supposed. Kate Morgan was the ringleader of a conspiracy to blackmail the owner of the Hotel del Coronado, John Spreckels. The woman who died was a beautiful young runaway from Detroit named Lizzie Wyllie... read more....
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Intersect—Danger: The darker side of World War II, with atomic espionage, murder, and conspiracies involving Hitler and Stalin as a young U.S. naval officer and his two female companions play their roles and fall into an offbeat love triangle. For a brief moment the two great wars (WW2 and the Cold War) intersect, in mid-1945 San Francisco, where the UN is being founded—and its first Secretary General is a Soviet mole named Alger Hiss, through whose treasonous machinations Stalin will set back Free World interests for the next half century. At the moment, graver issues are immediately at stake. Stalin is actively stealing U.S. atomic secrets in diplomatic pouches, using the Montana-Siberia Air Bridge (true story), and Hitler's last major act of war has been to send U-234 to Japan with atomic bomb materials and jet airplane parts to nuke U.S. cities (true story)... read the whole book free....
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Have Blue: Set in the early 1970s, A fictionalized account (and a love story between a young widow and a handsome inventor) based on the historically true discovery of Stealth technology—the biggest failure in the history of the Soviet Union to recognize a major achievement by one of their own mathematicians&151;whose work remarkably was based on the formulations of a 19th Century British mathematician—which was seized in a fit of inspiration by an obscure U.S. genius working at the Lockheed Skunk Works in California. The breakthrough literally saved us from World War III by counteracting Soviet radar advances that threatened the balance of power. Do read the Preface. read the whole book free....
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