Parker Robinson Mystery

STALKING BULLS, another kind of theater of the mind. You've enjoyed them on radio; now read them in print. YOU CAN SYMPATHIZE WITH PARKER ROBINSON: On the one hand, he has a guardian aunt who thinks he's a responsible college student but doesn't know he's on probation for skipping a half-semester's worth of classes to go surfing Hawaii. He has a Polynesian girlfriend whose face could launch a thousand outrigger canoes. He has a dog that listens only to him. He drives an antique 'bullet' Thunderbird that belonged to a late uncle and another uncle, who is the Boston Police Commissioner, who offers him a summer's internship provided he not involve himself in police business. Parker agrees. But this is before the Isabella Stewart Gardner Art Museum suffers its second major break-in-and-art-heist and Parker realizes he must involve himself to save his uncle's job. However, doing so leads to unintended consequences: such as his girlfriend being kidnapped. To free her, he has to come face to face with a modern-day Minotaur ––must confront it and wrestle it–– even though it means pitting the monster's brute strength against Parker's youth. Stalking Bulls is the first book of a trilogy, which includes Stalking Lions and Stalking Chickens.

STALKING LIONS, another kind of theater of the mind. You've enjoyed them on radio; now read them in print. YOU HAVE TO FEEL FOR PARKER: Yes, he's safely back at college, but still on probation. What's more, he has a floor counselor who hates his guts and wishes him dead, and the dean of the school wishes he could expel him and blames Parker for the bad publicity generated when he appeared, semi-nude, on morning network TV, as the likely suspect in a campus coed's strangulation murder case, even though all the poor boy had done was try to go to the poor girl's aid . . . Then there is the gorgeous identical twin who thinks Parker may, in fact, be her sister's killer, until Parker convinces her otherwise and then agrees to help her find the real killer, even if it means pretending to be a model, going to a sleazy modeling studio downtown, searching the tunnels under the Morningside campus, tracking down an absent-minded professor, attending rah-rah football games with sis-boom-bah alumni ––one of whom has very deep pockets and his eye on Parker. However, it is Parker's bloodhound instincts that lead him from 'the frying pan' into the 'fire', or in this case from 'the rowing tank' into the 'drowning vat'. Stalking Lions the second book of the trilogy, which includes Stalking Bulls and Stalking Chickens.