Jake Smith Mystery

Murder looms everywhere. Melvin Marcus is killed, early morning, on a cold winter New Year's Eve in his beachside apartment. The year is nineteen sixty-nine and in the Pacific Beach community of San Diego.The murder weapon cannot be found and it wouldn't matter anyway. Nobody could possibly piece togeather the unknown custom designed and manufactured firing stick.Marcus was the prime suspect in an unsolved brutal rape and murder three years prior. San Diego Police Detective Jake Smith is tasked with solving the who done it. He is all but incompetent and failed to solve the original murder. Now with his job on the line, Smith is under pressure to make an arrest at all costs.Detective Smith's only saving grace might be his rookie partner. Though he's sure he knows who the killer is, the new detective keeps digging up suspect after suspect. The list is never ending.With his life spiraling out of control both professionally and personally, the obnoxious Smith certainly is not contributing to either area of his tenuous existence. The caveat begins when he is not only the prime suspect in another murder but also in a botched murder attempt.The Police Chief, Lieutenant Holden, ADA Jillian Ross coupled with his life's love, ex-wife, and others all become disillusioned with the detective. He can't even take advice from his psychiatrist. At wit's end, Smith has no support and nowhere to turn. The end of his career looms closer by the hour.Hiding out of state, the detective has no choice but to return to San Diego and try to take control of his life. He has to confront the two detectives that took over his case and two La Mesa detectives tasked with solving a killing in their jurisdiction.Bang Stick starts on page one with a murder and the last page ends with another. What is in between is nothing less than a trail of blood covered with deception. Mr. H David Whalen, born in Canada, spent his childhood growing up on Vancouver Island. His family moved to San Diego for his formative years and higher education.After graduating from college, earning a marketing degree, and subsequent corporate career, Mr. Whalen became a serial entrepreneur and inventor.He spent thirty-five years self-employed, building eight companies, two national, and sellingthree.During his life journey, David invented many products which he sold or licensed.After Mr. Whalen sold his last business and retired, he pursues a writing career in the crime thrillers genre.Contact email information: dwhalen@super-supply.com After his partner gets murdered, Jake Smith ends up the primary suspect, Though the evidence does not stack up, the case remains open and Detective Smith gets drummed out of the San Diego police department. He heads to Arkansas to start over, as a patrol officer. His sarcasm and quick wit are misunderstood and he struggles to fit in with the small department.After years of tribulations, Jake moves back to San Diego to take on his former nemeses, opening his own private investigation company, Hamiton-Adams Investigations. Smith's antecedent reputation keeps him all but clientless. On the verge of bankruptcy, he manages to secure a client. But shortly afterward, the immigration attorney takes a bullet to the back of his head late one steamy night.Solving the crime ahead of the locals, Smith's publicity rockets HAI into success. He moves uptown and hires staff. Along the way, his Arkansas girlfriend moves to town and they end up married. Jake and Alexis probably should not have tied the knot and definitely not become partners. Though they are in love, they have different ideas and life goals. Smith needs to prove his innocence at all costs. Alex wants more in her marriage.

Jake Smith is back, starting over as a rookie patrol officer in Arkansas. He is not welcomed with open arms. Everyone in the department has a cousin or friend passed up for his hiring. Thanks to his friend's influence he secures the job and moves to town from San Diego.His first unofficial assignment is stopping corruption within the department. He is caught in the act and the local drug kingpin puts a hit on him. After the offending officers are arrested, they end up in jail or dead.Smith is assigned to the University of Arkansas campus amidst anti Viet Nam and Black movement riots. It all breaks loose after a student leader is murdered. As a rookie, Officer Smith is not involved in the investigation, though in spite of opposition he manages to insert himself.With drugs and alcohol, free following through the Kappa Sigma fraternity, the Arkansas' Lieutenant Governor's son gets hooked on cocaine. Things really heat up for Smith after the student overdoses. Is it an accident or murder?The outlaw motorcycle gang, Belial Bikers end up in a gang war with the locals resulting in the New Year's Eve Massacre at Kats, a local gentleman's club. Smith is forced to leave his reporter girlfriend at a party and assist in the operation.A local drug dealer is assassinated and his house burnt to the ground. Stripper Lulu Love, his wife, is the number one suspect and goes on the lamb. As soon as Detective Knight meets an untimely death, Officer Smith is promoted back to detective grade and partnered up with his nemesis. It is up them to work things out and investigate both crimes, the student overdose, and the drug dealer's assignation. Are they somehow intertwined? And what does private investigator Arthur English, a retired MI6 agent, have to do with it? Can Smith and his partner escape the investigator's boobie-trapped warehouse?It ends with the Lieutenant Governor going on trial for murder. Unfortunately suffering a heart attack he ends up under guard and dead in the hospital, a gun found on his bed. Suicide or murder? Only the reader will know. Mr. H David Whalen, born in Canada, spent his childhood growing up on Vancouver Island. His family moved to San Diego for his formative years and higher education.After graduating from college, earning a marketing degree, and subsequent corporate career, Mr. Whalen became a serial entrepreneur and inventor.He spent thirty-five years self-employed, building eight companies, two national, and sellingthree.During his life journey, David invented many products which he sold or licensed.After Mr. Whalen sold his last business and retired, he pursues a writing career in the crime thrillers genre.Contact email information: dwhalen@super-supply.com After his partner gets murdered, Jake Smith ends up the primary suspect, Though the evidence does not stack up, the case remains open and Detective Smith gets drummed out of the San Diego police department. He heads to Arkansas to start over, as a patrol officer. His sarcasm and quick wit are misunderstood and he struggles to fit in with the small department.After years of tribulations, Jake moves back to San Diego to take on his former nemeses, opening his own private investigation company, Hamiton-Adams Investigations. Smith's antecedent reputation keeps him all but clientless. On the verge of bankruptcy, he manages to secure a client. But shortly afterward, the immigration attorney takes a bullet to the back of his head late one steamy night.Solving the crime ahead of the locals, Smith's publicity rockets HAI into success. He moves uptown and hires staff. Along the way, his Arkansas girlfriend moves to town and they end up married. Jake and Alexis probably should not have tied the knot and definitely not become partners. Though they are in love, they have different ideas and life goals. Smith needs to prove his innocence at all costs. Alex wants more in her marriage.

Born under a different identity on the streets of Tijuana, Diego Ortiz and his partner run into troubles with their drug pushing boss. On the run, late one night, he illegally crosses the border into San Diego.Smart, but not formally schooled, he finds a mentor and his life gets on the fast track. Upon his father figures death, Diego inherits everything and builds an empire. Only not one most people would not be proud of. After his murder, the investigating San Diego police detectives run into a myriad of alphabet agencies already deep into the underbelly of the Ortiz organization.Interdepartmental cooperation is not the norm. And the monkey wretch is private investigator Jake Smith and his fiance Alexis Dench. His old workmate, Detective Stephen Lyle has a long memory. He wants Smith's head on a platter.Smith cannot help himself, though trying hard to stay under the radar, he learns and hides too much. Both sides, good, and evil want him off the investigation. Harassment, torture, jail, nothing can deter the man on a mission. It is not his virtue. Smith likes to eat and needs the money, Diego's widow is paying him.Forgery. money laundering, drug cartels, illegal alien smuggling, payoffs. The list is endless. No one has a hope of discovering all.Who is trustworthy? Who benefits? Everyone racing to finish the puzzle. The question lingers as who has the final piece. Mr. H David Whalen, born in Canada, spent his childhood growing up on Vancouver Island. His family moved to San Diego for his formative years and higher education.After graduating from college, earning a marketing degree, and subsequent corporate career, Mr. Whalen became a serial entrepreneur and inventor.He spent thirty-five years self-employed, building eight companies, two national, and sellingthree.During his life journey, David invented many products which he sold or licensed.After Mr. Whalen sold his last business and retired, he pursues a writing career in the crime thrillers genre.Contact email information: dwhalen@super-supply.com After his partner gets murdered, Jake Smith ends up the primary suspect, Though the evidence does not stack up, the case remains open and Detective Smith gets drummed out of the San Diego police department. He heads to Arkansas to start over, as a patrol officer. His sarcasm and quick wit are misunderstood and he struggles to fit in with the small department.After years of tribulations, Jake moves back to San Diego to take on his former nemeses, opening his own private investigation company, Hamiton-Adams Investigations. Smith's antecedent reputation keeps him all but clientless. On the verge of bankruptcy, he manages to secure a client. But shortly afterward, the immigration attorney takes a bullet to the back of his head late one steamy night.Solving the crime ahead of the locals, Smith's publicity rockets HAI into success. He moves uptown and hires staff. Along the way, his Arkansas girlfriend moves to town and they end up married. Jake and Alexis probably should not have tied the knot and definitely not become partners. Though they are in love, they have different ideas and life goals. Smith needs to prove his innocence at all costs. Alex wants more in her marriage.

The North County flower fields are a full rainbow of colors, set majestically on the hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The opened blooms swayed gently in the offshore breezes. The only factor spoiling the perfect postcard setting was the murder of Charles Westway.Why was he beat to death with a hardwood Louisville Slugger, when the second body found, a sheriff's deputy, was shot? The beloved television news anchor's darkest secrets unfolded.The mystery expanded from San Diego to the streets of Hollywood and beyond, both physically and emotionally. Numerous policing agencies and Private Investigator Jake Smith vied to solve mounting crimes and body counts.Hamilton-Adams Investigations' boss hired to by the jailed prime suspect's Chicago attorney to find the truth. He knew his client was lying, but to what extent, murder? Smith needed to locate the Tijuana housekeeper to learn what she witnessed at the station's previous Christmas party. Can he find her? Will her observations exonerate or bury Smith's client?Westway's neighbors told doubtful accounts of the night of the killings. Nothing added up. Nothing made sense. The police investigations stalled and the only hope to save the station manager left up to Jake Smith and his team. Mr. H David Whalen, born in Canada, spent his childhood growing up on Vancouver Island. His family moved to San Diego for his formative years and higher education.After graduating from college, earning a marketing degree, and subsequent corporate career, Mr. Whalen became a serial entrepreneur and inventor.He spent thirty-five years self-employed, building eight companies, two national, and sellingthree.During his life journey, David invented many products which he sold or licensed.After Mr. Whalen sold his last business and retired, he pursues a writing career in the crime thrillers genre.Contact email information: dwhalen@super-supply.com After his partner gets murdered, Jake Smith ends up the primary suspect, Though the evidence does not stack up, the case remains open and Detective Smith gets drummed out of the San Diego police department. He heads to Arkansas to start over, as a patrol officer. His sarcasm and quick wit are misunderstood and he struggles to fit in with the small department.After years of tribulations, Jake moves back to San Diego to take on his former nemeses, opening his own private investigation company, Hamiton-Adams Investigations. Smith's antecedent reputation keeps him all but clientless. On the verge of bankruptcy, he manages to secure a client. But shortly afterward, the immigration attorney takes a bullet to the back of his head late one steamy night.Solving the crime ahead of the locals, Smith's publicity rockets HAI into success. He moves uptown and hires staff. Along the way, his Arkansas girlfriend moves to town and they end up married. Jake and Alexis probably should not have tied the knot and definitely not become partners. Though they are in love, they have different ideas and life goals. Smith needs to prove his innocence at all costs. Alex wants more in her marriage.

The year nineteen-fifty, Texarkana, Texas, a child, Angel Martin, snatched from her bedroom early one Sunday morning. Neither the monster nor the girl found, and the Angel Snatcher myth born. Over decades, the urban legend evolved to the current telling, where Angel Snatcher leaves a porcelain figure wherever a child goes missing.FBI agent, Egan Davis, spent his career chasing the elusive wraith around the country. But when a girl abducted early morning Halloween night in San Diego, the local police become involved. The only clue, the figurine left on the girl's bed. The slow-witted teenager, living across the street with his grandmother, quickly apprehended.But not nearly easy, and not even close to solving. Hamilton-Adams Investigation throws a monkey wrench into the case by agreeing to conduct a pro bono examination for the young man's grandmother, much to the owner's wife and business partner's disgust. The HAI team stops at nothing to fulfill the commitment.Rift with twists, lack of evidence, dead suspects, personal obstacles, and professional conflicts, the kidnapping case goes cold. If baby Rocha ever found, dead or alive, it is in the hands of the only one still looking, vain, sarcastic Private Investigator Jake Smith.The story will keep you up at night, never taking eyes off your children. Mr. H David Whalen, born in Canada, spent his childhood growing up on Vancouver Island. His family moved to San Diego for his formative years and higher education.After graduating from college, earning a marketing degree, and subsequent corporate career, Mr. Whalen became a serial entrepreneur and inventor.He spent thirty-five years self-employed, building eight companies, two national, and sellingthree.During his life journey, David invented many products which he sold or licensed.After Mr. Whalen sold his last business and retired, he pursues a writing career in the crime thrillers genre.Contact email information: dwhalen@super-supply.com After his partner gets murdered, Jake Smith ends up the primary suspect, Though the evidence does not stack up, the case remains open and Detective Smith gets drummed out of the San Diego police department. He heads to Arkansas to start over, as a patrol officer. His sarcasm and quick wit are misunderstood and he struggles to fit in with the small department.After years of tribulations, Jake moves back to San Diego to take on his former nemeses, opening his own private investigation company, Hamiton-Adams Investigations. Smith's antecedent reputation keeps him all but clientless. On the verge of bankruptcy, he manages to secure a client. But shortly afterward, the immigration attorney takes a bullet to the back of his head late one steamy night.Solving the crime ahead of the locals, Smith's publicity rockets HAI into success. He moves uptown and hires staff. Along the way, his Arkansas girlfriend moves to town and they end up married. Jake and Alexis probably should not have tied the knot and definitely not become partners. Though they are in love, they have different ideas and life goals. Smith needs to prove his innocence at all costs. Alex wants more in her marriage.

Private investigator Jake Smith is sometimes a hero, sometimes vigilante, but always a thorn in the cops' side. His nemesis, Detective Max Marsh, Marshmallow, as Smith refers to him, is bent on driving him out of San Diego.With Andrew and Leslie Howell's remains discovered in their garden graves by their busy body neighbor, Jake inserts himself in the middle of the case, bringing Smith and Marsh to loggerheads.Hamilton-Adams Investigations does not have a client, driving his wife's disgust with her husband's refusal to quit interfering. She declines to understand him, trying to redeem himself over long-forgotten accusations.During clashes with his wife, Jake makes a mistake with an old friend. Now, can he live with the consequences? Virginia is the best researcher in the business. Is it possible for Jake to solve the murders without her?Grave Graden is a riveting thriller of survival, redemption, obsession, and love. But unfortunately, Jake appears to love his job more than his wife. Mr. H David Whalen, born in Canada, spent his childhood growing up on Vancouver Island. His family moved to San Diego for his formative years and higher education.After graduating from college, earning a marketing degree, and subsequent corporate career, Mr. Whalen became a serial entrepreneur and inventor.He spent thirty-five years self-employed, building eight companies, two national, and sellingthree.During his life journey, David invented many products which he sold or licensed.After Mr. Whalen sold his last business and retired, he pursues a writing career in the crime thrillers genre.Contact email information: dwhalen@super-supply.com After his partner gets murdered, Jake Smith ends up the primary suspect, Though the evidence does not stack up, the case remains open and Detective Smith gets drummed out of the San Diego police department. He heads to Arkansas to start over, as a patrol officer. His sarcasm and quick wit are misunderstood and he struggles to fit in with the small department.After years of tribulations, Jake moves back to San Diego to take on his former nemeses, opening his own private investigation company, Hamiton-Adams Investigations. Smith's antecedent reputation keeps him all but clientless. On the verge of bankruptcy, he manages to secure a client. But shortly afterward, the immigration attorney takes a bullet to the back of his head late one steamy night.Solving the crime ahead of the locals, Smith's publicity rockets HAI into success. He moves uptown and hires staff. Along the way, his Arkansas girlfriend moves to town and they end up married. Jake and Alexis probably should not have tied the knot and definitely not become partners. Though they are in love, they have different ideas and life goals. Smith needs to prove his innocence at all costs. Alex wants more in her marriage.

It is New Year's Eve in nineteen sixty-nine and Southern California's normally placid climate is experiencing a bitter winter cold snap. It is certainly not the weather for murder. The strange unknown weapon constitutes the perfect crime. Bodies are stacking up faster than chips in a winning hand of high stakes poker. The only thing piling up faster is the ever growing list of suspects. Incompetent San Diego Police Detective Jake Smith is in charge of the investigation. His life is spiraling out of control both professionally and personally. The obnoxious detective's attitude certainly is not benefitting either areas of his tenuous existence. He is either ending up the squad room hero or miscreant.

A steamy hot August in San Diego, California. The rotting body of an immigration attorney, Diego Ortiz found with a Mexican stiletto protruding from his chest. Disgraced Jake Smith is back from Arkansas and set up a private investigation service. He has been keeping a low profile, not wanting to confront his old nemesis, SDPD Detective Stephen Lyle. Now fruitless with the death of his only client. Smith has no choice but to insert himself in the investigation. It is a race to bring him down. The Federal alphabet agencies, the SDPD, the Melendez Drug Cartel or someone else is all in the running. Diego Ortiz has a long list of enemies. So many adversaries. So many want his empire. No one knows his past. No one knows his real name or even if he is a licensed attorney. The controversy piles up. The mystery runs deep. From the underbelly of San Diego to the streets of Tijuana, nobody is above suspicion. The chases, the tortures, the arrests, the clues are all there. Can you figure it out before the final chapter?