John T. Cullen has authored over 20 books, including The Generals of October (Simon & Schuster, 2004)—pulse-pounding political-military suspense fiction set in a near-future U.S. Constitutional crisis.
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John T. Cullen also writes screenplays, including one for Nebula Express (adapted from his SF novel) and the violent, darkly glistening, utterly strange tale of a serial killer in Scorpion.
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Dead Move
Kate Morgan and the Haunting Mystery of Coronado, Second Edition - Nonfiction
by John T. Cullen
Lottie A. Bernard Timeline—What We Know
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Day 0—Wednesday, Nov. 23, 1892 (Katie Logan in L.A.)
We’ll call this Day Zero because it is the last day of one daring fraud, and the transition into another daring fraud that starts the next day.
Day Zero—the day before Thanksgiving, 1892—was last day of an imaginary person named Mrs. Katie Logan. Katie Logan worked for several weeks in Los Angeles, as a domestic servant for at least three wealthy families, the last of whom was the family of contractor L. A. Grant. This Katie Logan would, the following afternoon (Day 1), wink out of existence. She would transition into yet another fraudulent persona—Mrs. Lottie Anderson Bernard, baptized with the ink flowing from a desk clerk’s dipping pen in the softly lit Hotel del Coronado lobby. Lottie A. Bernard was fated for a brief, five-day life whose termination resulted in the death of a real and unknown person.
The twenty-four hour period from some time in the middle of Day Zero, when Katie Logan said goodbye to the L. A. Grant family in Los Angeles, to the signing-in of Lottie A. Bernard at the Hotel del Coronado during the next afternoon, is also known as ‘The Missing Day.’ The Missing Day addresses the question of why the two-hour train trip from Los Angeles took her a whole day. Does it matter? What if she just went shopping, or goofed off. But she didn't. As we will see, she was heading south on a train from Los Angeles to San Diego, at the same time that a witness placed her on a train from Denver headed to Orange (halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego). On that train, she had a heart-wrenching argument with a cruel-seeming man—possibly her lover. So the Missing Day will be very interesting for us to figure out. It is one of several mysteries within a mystery that has long festered in the soul of the Lottie Bernard saga. When I present my theory in the next section, I will propose an answer for this, and all other questions, in this complex saga. Even the names Lottie and Charlotte some special significance.
Bear in mind, none of what happened on Day Zero became known until well after Lottie Bernard’s death. On the day of the Coroner’s Inquest, November 30, 1892, six days after she signed in at the Hotel Del, it was assumed she really was Mrs. Lottie Anderson Bernard. As far as the nine men on the Coroner's jury were concerned, she appeared out of nowhere on November 24th, our Day One.
From Day Zero, we now follow the known facts in chronological sequence. Katie Logan was well-liked by the L. A. Grants, and they fully expected her to return the next day to help with Thanksgiving dinner. She would never be seen again. Stored at the L. A. Grants' home was a trunk that would be opened many days later by Los Angeles police—revealing startling clues that nobody has really examined in context until now. The solution to the Lottie Bernard mystery (or Kate Morgan mystery) begins taking shape at the L. A. Grants' house—in that trunk, which we'll examine in greater detail soon.
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John T. Cullen has been a pioneer in digital publishing since 1996. He is listed by digital publishing historian Karen Wiesner as the sixth digital publisher in history, and the second person to publish serialized chapters on line (starting 1996). His web magazine Deep Outside SFFH was the first to be listed along with the professional pulps in Writer's Market (1999) and was at one time the oldest professional SFFH magazine in the world. John T. Cullen continues to explore new ways to adapt the primordial power of storytelling to emerging new digital opportunities as the Third Millennium springs to light.
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A Walk in Ancient Rome John T. Cullen (Simon&Schuster May 2005) innovative, acclaimed walking & teaching tour—explore every corner of the Imperial capital at its zenith almost 2000 years ago; learn its history—smell and taste the very air of Classical Rome.
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= Summer 2008 =
A Walk in Ancient Rome, Second Edition John T. Cullen (Clocktower Books 2008)—New! Many new maps; images from the unique scale model of AndréCaron of Quebec. Read this innovative book, with its acclaimed walking & teaching tour. Explore every corner of the Imperial capital at its zenith almost 2000 years ago; learn its history. Smell and taste the very air of Classical Rome. The new edition is bigger, like an atlas. Some people have carried the 1st edition with them to Rome, and found it greatly enhanced their experience.
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