Murder One

Three of my short mysteries feature Michael Scofield, my private detective. “Chips” raises the number of Scofield stories to four. Scofield lives and works in the Quad Cities, which sit on the banks of the Mississippi River in Iowa and Illinois. These cities contain a total population of about 350,000 people, many of whom show little respect for law and order. Scofield usually goes where the money leads him, but in “Chips” the murder of a childhood friend motivates him more than money. I give the reader every clue that Scofield finds, but not one reader in a hundred will solve this mystery before my favorite private eye.

You can read this short mystery at Chips.