Silverlake is a suburban community of Columbus, Ohio, in which a burglar rapist has selected single women living in the city as his victims. He has made his plans and knows when he will strike and where. David Chandler, a rookie police officer, is able to identify when the criminal will strike, but he has no idea where. With everyone on the police department having a theory about the criminal, no one believes David knows anything more about the case than they do. David is forced to join forces with Sergeant William Romp, who is the only one with faith in the new officer. This is the story of how police agencies work to solve serious crimes and introduces the concept of crime prevention in the reduction of criminal activity. The focus of efforts to apprehend the criminal take a dark turn when the rapist selects David’s home and his own wife to be one of the victims in the crime wave. This is a story about good guys and bad guys. The good guys are good guys, and the bad guys are bad guys. Even with the seriousness of the crimes, humor is a tool used to show how police officers make mistakes and how those mistakes affect the community.

Silverlake is a suburban community of Columbus, Ohio, in which a burglar rapist has selected single women living in the city as his victims. He has made his plans and knows when he will strike and where. David Chandler, a rookie police officer, is able to identify when the criminal will strike, but he has no idea where. With everyone on the police department having a theory about the criminal, no one believes David knows anything more about the case than they do. David is forced to join forces with Sergeant William Romp, who is the only one with faith in the new officer. This is the story of how police agencies work to solve serious crimes and introduces the concept of crime prevention in the reduction of criminal activity. The focus of efforts to apprehend the criminal take a dark turn when the rapist selects David’s home and his own wife to be one of the victims in the crime wave. This is a story about good guys and bad guys. The good guys are good guys, and the bad guys are bad guys. Even with the seriousness of the crimes, humor is a tool used to show how police officers make mistakes and how those mistakes affect the community.

The Miracle of the Red Roses is a novel depicting some people who, though drawn from the wide diversity of our society, could be found anywhere in the world and  throughout any given period. The plot revolves around the following main characters who could be labeled as off-beat, even though they are not rare specimens in our nation. Let’s outline their roles

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RUDOLPH MORGAN:

 Rudolph is a brilliant, young, self-made man without a formal journalistic education. Through his effort, intelligence and clean-cut personality, he reached the highest position at a leading newspaper in his country. Later on, when deposed from his pedestal, he had to bear tough breaks and hardships while he worked in low-paid jobs in a country other than his own. Unable to adapt, he watched the years go by, leaving furrows on his face and snow on his temples. Despite the whimsical evolution of his destiny, he never matured.

PADRE EUSEBIO:

Padre Eusebio is an abject, sordid, vile, miserable and despicable being who descends to the lowest levels of disgrace and infamy, no caring who he destroys or implicates in his evil world. Treason hides behind his handshake or blessing. He willingly commits murder with a smile on his lips while invoking God’s name

MARIA LUISA VARGAS, BERTILDA SALCEDO and FLORENCE:

These are women in love, going through painful moments of grief and sorrow after losing their cherished dreams, women acquiescent to their fate without struggle. Each one of them symbolize, --within the context of her milieu-- the innocent victims of society all around the world.

LUIS RAMON  SAENZ, ERNEST QUIROGA, GESTAS:

These degenerate characters are the maximum expression of wretched souls.

They thrive and prolifearate in the hidden cesspools in our society. They are beyond rehabiliation regardless of the opportunities afforded them throughout their lives.

This book portrays the experiences undergone by immigrants from Latin-America, who come to the United States in search of advancement, to focus on solving  their problems and overcoming their failures. Once their former youth is gone, they discover how different their culture and customs are from those of the Promised Land.

The Miracle of the Red Roses exposes some of the wickedness infecting our everyday life, despite the ongoing efforts aimed at its eradication. It has existed since Cain’s time, at the dawn of humanity, and will remain until humanity disappears from the surface of this planet.

Amidst all the mirthlessness, the author interweaves scenes of love, friendship, lust, tenderness, crime and pain, which keeps the reader keenly interested up to the unexpected and surprising end.

The Miracle of the Red Roses is a novel depicting some people who, though drawn from the wide diversity of our society, could be found anywhere in the world and  throughout any given period. The plot revolves around the following main characters who could be labeled as off-beat, even though they are not rare specimens in our nation. Let’s outline their roles

:

RUDOLPH MORGAN:

 Rudolph is a brilliant, young, self-made man without a formal journalistic education. Through his effort, intelligence and clean-cut personality, he reached the highest position at a leading newspaper in his country. Later on, when deposed from his pedestal, he had to bear tough breaks and hardships while he worked in low-paid jobs in a country other than his own. Unable to adapt, he watched the years go by, leaving furrows on his face and snow on his temples. Despite the whimsical evolution of his destiny, he never matured.

PADRE EUSEBIO:

Padre Eusebio is an abject, sordid, vile, miserable and despicable being who descends to the lowest levels of disgrace and infamy, no caring who he destroys or implicates in his evil world. Treason hides behind his handshake or blessing. He willingly commits murder with a smile on his lips while invoking God’s name

MARIA LUISA VARGAS, BERTILDA SALCEDO and FLORENCE:

These are women in love, going through painful moments of grief and sorrow after losing their cherished dreams, women acquiescent to their fate without struggle. Each one of them symbolize, --within the context of her milieu-- the innocent victims of society all around the world.

LUIS RAMON  SAENZ, ERNEST QUIROGA, GESTAS:

These degenerate characters are the maximum expression of wretched souls.

They thrive and prolifearate in the hidden cesspools in our society. They are beyond rehabiliation regardless of the opportunities afforded them throughout their lives.

This book portrays the experiences undergone by immigrants from Latin-America, who come to the United States in search of advancement, to focus on solving  their problems and overcoming their failures. Once their former youth is gone, they discover how different their culture and customs are from those of the Promised Land.

The Miracle of the Red Roses exposes some of the wickedness infecting our everyday life, despite the ongoing efforts aimed at its eradication. It has existed since Cain’s time, at the dawn of humanity, and will remain until humanity disappears from the surface of this planet.

Amidst all the mirthlessness, the author interweaves scenes of love, friendship, lust, tenderness, crime and pain, which keeps the reader keenly interested up to the unexpected and surprising end.

Jonathan Laurence has been displaced from his job by a corporate merger and is down to his last few thousand dollars, when a violent, chance encounter places him in the company of Curtis and Don Ed, two unsuccessful criminals. In a desperate measure to maintain his social status, Jonathan and his new associates plan a robbery which goes very badly wrong. In the aftermath Jonathan takes off for St. Martin with Don Ed’s topless dancer girlfriend, Tiffany. When a valuable treasure is discovered missing, Jonathan and Tiffany are pursued in the Caribbean by a cast of dangerous and unsavory characters. This is a hilarious adventure with colorful but likable characters who can’t seem to get anything right.

The story begins when prominent Beverly Hills psychiatrist, Dr. Joel Steiner, is shot and killed by an unknown intruder, on Steiner’s luxury yacht, the Sirocco. LAPD Det. Joe Kellermann and his partner, Det. Rick Ramirez, begin an immediate investigation into Dr. Steiner’s murder. Supposedly, “happily married,” the detectives soon learn Steiner was having a secret affair with one of his patients: a mystery-woman, know only as “Rita.” Upon further investigation, the mistress Rita Chandler, is found living in a beach-front bungalow on P.C.H. in Malibu. During the interrogation, Miss Chandler reveals that her affair with Steiner had become the ultimate fatal attraction. He was totally obsessed with her. When she tells him the affair is over, primarily because she has fallen in love with another man, Steve Ryan, he loses it; in a fit of rage he tells her: “If I can’t have you…nobody else will!” Steiner even threatens to kill her. A scene with Steve Ryan reaffirms Miss Chandler’s testimony that after the break-up, Steiner constantly spied on her, stalked her, made obscene phone calls, etc., finally forcing her to leave her Santa Barbara apartment. At the end of this scene, we are shocked, when Ryan reveals that Rita Chandler is HIV-positive. She has AIDS. In a scene, following, Kellermann’s superior officer, Capt. Frank McElroy, already has a list of four possible suspects: Rita Chandler, her boyfriend, Barbara Steiner, the “grieving widow,” and Steiner’s business partner, Dr. Sydney Zellman. This scene ends with a surprise visit from Diana Marlowe, from the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s office. She is here to see Kellermann with vital information concerning the Steiner case. Miss Marlowe reveals that about three months prior, Rita Chandler came into her Santa Barbara office and filed a complaint against Steiner. As incredible as it sounded, Miss Chandler was positive, Steiner had injected her with the deadly AIDS virus. Pregnant (with Steiner’s child) she had an abortion. Upon further investigation, the D.A.’s office learned that Steiner was treating three AIDS patients, including a gay man, named Larry Mosely. Genetic analysis of the virus that infected Miss Chandler, was shown to be identical to Mosely’s. Dr. Steiner was arrested, arraigned and released on $200,000 bond. His trial was scheduled to begin in a matter of weeks. Miss Marlowe explains, word “leaked out” of the D.A.’s office; Mosely’s gay and HIV status became public. He was suing Steiner for doctor-patient confidentiality. Kellermann immediately adds Larry Mosely to his possible-suspect list. Within 48 hours later, Kellermann is informed by Beverly Hills detective Gregg Juarez, that Diana Marlowe has been reported missing. She walked out of her hotel and hasn’t been seen since. This is followed by a $50,000 ransom hoax, perpetrated by an ex-con, Marlowe had “sent-up.” A sequence of events follows, wherein the detectives try to “flush out,” Larry Mosely. They learn that Mosely is “holed-up” in an L.A. Skid Row hotel. In the interrogation scene that follows, we see that Larry Mosely is dying. As the detectives wait for the hotel elevator to take them back to the first floor lobby, they suddenly hear a single gunshot from Mosely’s room. They discover he has committed suicide. Ten days after her disappearance, Diana Marlowe’s body is discovered in an Echo Park self storage locker; a single bullet wound to the chest. A ballistics report states that the weapon Mosely used to kill himself with, was the same one used to murder Miss Marlowe. The big break in the case comes when Bill Bradshaw, with the Los Angeles D.A.’s office contacts Kellermann. He states that a man, Tony Lesniak, being held prisoner a the Men’s Central Jail, has vital and important information concerning Dr. Steiner’s murder. For that information, Lesniak wants the D.A.’s office to cut him a deal. Lesniak states emphatically that on two separate occasions, Barbara Steiner offered him $20,000 to “take out”…”eliminate,” her husband. Bradshaw offers Lesniak (who is imprisoned on an armed robbery charge) complete dismissal of the charges, if he will cooperate and assist in Mrs. Steiner’s arrest. Lesniak will call Mrs. Steiner for a meet in a small bar called “The Castaways,” on the Santa Monica pier. He will be wired, and Lesniak’s purpose is the blackmail her. Hopefully, she will fall for the “set-up,” which she does. She is immediately placed under arrest. When she feigns an “emergency” visit to the ladies room, she manages to escape, thus precipitating a wild car chase upon the limited confines of the pier. Driving erratically and recklessly, she almost drives her Cadillac Seville into the ocean. However, as expected, she crashes the car into a guard-rail, where Kellermann immediately places her under arrest.

The story begins when prominent Beverly Hills psychiatrist, Dr. Joel Steiner, is shot and killed by an unknown intruder, on Steiner’s luxury yacht, the Sirocco. LAPD Det. Joe Kellermann and his partner, Det. Rick Ramirez, begin an immediate investigation into Dr. Steiner’s murder. Supposedly, “happily married,” the detectives soon learn Steiner was having a secret affair with one of his patients: a mystery-woman, know only as “Rita.” Upon further investigation, the mistress Rita Chandler, is found living in a beach-front bungalow on P.C.H. in Malibu. During the interrogation, Miss Chandler reveals that her affair with Steiner had become the ultimate fatal attraction. He was totally obsessed with her. When she tells him the affair is over, primarily because she has fallen in love with another man, Steve Ryan, he loses it; in a fit of rage he tells her: “If I can’t have you…nobody else will!” Steiner even threatens to kill her. A scene with Steve Ryan reaffirms Miss Chandler’s testimony that after the break-up, Steiner constantly spied on her, stalked her, made obscene phone calls, etc., finally forcing her to leave her Santa Barbara apartment. At the end of this scene, we are shocked, when Ryan reveals that Rita Chandler is HIV-positive. She has AIDS. In a scene, following, Kellermann’s superior officer, Capt. Frank McElroy, already has a list of four possible suspects: Rita Chandler, her boyfriend, Barbara Steiner, the “grieving widow,” and Steiner’s business partner, Dr. Sydney Zellman. This scene ends with a surprise visit from Diana Marlowe, from the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s office. She is here to see Kellermann with vital information concerning the Steiner case. Miss Marlowe reveals that about three months prior, Rita Chandler came into her Santa Barbara office and filed a complaint against Steiner. As incredible as it sounded, Miss Chandler was positive, Steiner had injected her with the deadly AIDS virus. Pregnant (with Steiner’s child) she had an abortion. Upon further investigation, the D.A.’s office learned that Steiner was treating three AIDS patients, including a gay man, named Larry Mosely. Genetic analysis of the virus that infected Miss Chandler, was shown to be identical to Mosely’s. Dr. Steiner was arrested, arraigned and released on $200,000 bond. His trial was scheduled to begin in a matter of weeks. Miss Marlowe explains, word “leaked out” of the D.A.’s office; Mosely’s gay and HIV status became public. He was suing Steiner for doctor-patient confidentiality. Kellermann immediately adds Larry Mosely to his possible-suspect list. Within 48 hours later, Kellermann is informed by Beverly Hills detective Gregg Juarez, that Diana Marlowe has been reported missing. She walked out of her hotel and hasn’t been seen since. This is followed by a $50,000 ransom hoax, perpetrated by an ex-con, Marlowe had “sent-up.” A sequence of events follows, wherein the detectives try to “flush out,” Larry Mosely. They learn that Mosely is “holed-up” in an L.A. Skid Row hotel. In the interrogation scene that follows, we see that Larry Mosely is dying. As the detectives wait for the hotel elevator to take them back to the first floor lobby, they suddenly hear a single gunshot from Mosely’s room. They discover he has committed suicide. Ten days after her disappearance, Diana Marlowe’s body is discovered in an Echo Park self storage locker; a single bullet wound to the chest. A ballistics report states that the weapon Mosely used to kill himself with, was the same one used to murder Miss Marlowe. The big break in the case comes when Bill Bradshaw, with the Los Angeles D.A.’s office contacts Kellermann. He states that a man, Tony Lesniak, being held prisoner a the Men’s Central Jail, has vital and important information concerning Dr. Steiner’s murder. For that information, Lesniak wants the D.A.’s office to cut him a deal. Lesniak states emphatically that on two separate occasions, Barbara Steiner offered him $20,000 to “take out”…”eliminate,” her husband. Bradshaw offers Lesniak (who is imprisoned on an armed robbery charge) complete dismissal of the charges, if he will cooperate and assist in Mrs. Steiner’s arrest. Lesniak will call Mrs. Steiner for a meet in a small bar called “The Castaways,” on the Santa Monica pier. He will be wired, and Lesniak’s purpose is the blackmail her. Hopefully, she will fall for the “set-up,” which she does. She is immediately placed under arrest. When she feigns an “emergency” visit to the ladies room, she manages to escape, thus precipitating a wild car chase upon the limited confines of the pier. Driving erratically and recklessly, she almost drives her Cadillac Seville into the ocean. However, as expected, she crashes the car into a guard-rail, where Kellermann immediately places her under arrest.

As the captain headed off to see his old friend he began to enumerate and mentally list the different, unknown parts of the investigation. There are two unidentified dead women. One woman was unquestionably murdered and one died in an accident, he said aloud to himself. There is one missing child, one missing noblewoman, one dead man, and one man who fled the area even though he was completely cleared of suspicion in any of the deaths or abductions. All these happenings are seemingly unrelated. The only common thread running through these recent events is their mutual connection to that small inn called Rideway.Properly handled that common thread can probably be woven into a tapestry that will be an explanation of all the mysteries. On the other hand, in the hand of a novice the thread will likely unravel and the diverse clues might never come together. In which circumstance we might never discover the answers to this intriguing case. That being true, it was very fortunate that the inept Squire Stoneman turned over the investigation to London, and they in turn have someone with the wits to solve it. Namely me, thought the captain with no false modesty.

Jonathan Laurence has been displaced from his job by a corporate merger and is down to his last few thousand dollars, when a violent, chance encounter places him in the company of Curtis and Don Ed, two unsuccessful criminals. In a desperate measure to maintain his social status, Jonathan and his new associates plan a robbery which goes very badly wrong. In the aftermath Jonathan takes off for St. Martin with Don Ed’s topless dancer girlfriend, Tiffany. When a valuable treasure is discovered missing, Jonathan and Tiffany are pursued in the Caribbean by a cast of dangerous and unsavory characters. This is a hilarious adventure with colorful but likable characters who can’t seem to get anything right.

Jonathan Laurence has been displaced from his job by a corporate merger and is down to his last few thousand dollars, when a violent, chance encounter places him in the company of Curtis and Don Ed, two unsuccessful criminals. In a desperate measure to maintain his social status, Jonathan and his new associates plan a robbery which goes very badly wrong. In the aftermath Jonathan takes off for St. Martin with Don Ed’s topless dancer girlfriend, Tiffany. When a valuable treasure is discovered missing, Jonathan and Tiffany are pursued in the Caribbean by a cast of dangerous and unsavory characters. This is a hilarious adventure with colorful but likable characters who can’t seem to get anything right.

It ended when he was captured. It began when he vanished. ── A Presidential Aide is suspected of a murder he may not have committed. On his way to death row, he vanishes. Was he kidnapped or did he escape? During a massive manhunt, three others are kidnapped, including the U.S. Attorney prosecuting his case. What does Sidney Cox, a young lawyer, know? The kidnapper has perfected the art of retribution.

She ran. They followed. Then he showed up. ── The Attorney General is murdered in the Department of Justice. Helpless to save him, Sidney Cox, a young lawyer, races out of the building clutching a blood-stained FBI file. When she’s arrested for the murder, a gifted attorney comes to her defense. Facing life imprisonment, she discovers death is only one misstep away.

They had a lot in common. He had a secret. She had a scandal. ── In the spring, a dead body begins to thaw in the woods of Staten Island. The victim is linked to an explosive fire that kills sixty people. Taylor Mitchell is embroiled in scandal, along with her race for the mayor of New York City and her engagement to a handsome businessman. In the resulting turmoil, he is not the only one exposed. In New York City, everyone has a secret.

She ran. They followed. Then he showed up. ── The Attorney General is murdered in the Department of Justice. Helpless to save him, Sidney Cox, a young lawyer, races out of the building clutching a blood-stained FBI file. When she’s arrested for the murder, a gifted attorney comes to her defense. Facing life imprisonment, she discovers death is only one misstep away.

They had a lot in common. He had a secret. She had a scandal. ── In the spring, a dead body begins to thaw in the woods of Staten Island. The victim is linked to an explosive fire that kills sixty people. Taylor Mitchell is embroiled in scandal, along with her race for the mayor of New York City and her engagement to a handsome businessman. In the resulting turmoil, he is not the only one exposed. In New York City, everyone has a secret.