For those of you who want to get a taste of the book before spending the time to wait for Amazon to ship it to you, here is chapter one of The Ragman Murders. 1  HARTFORD, CT. MARCH, 1930“Here, Miss Amato, have a seat.” Detective Lieutenant Frank Santoro held the...

Tuesday we drove from Missoula to Great Falls to pick up Hubby's gun,which he had to drop off at a gun dealer to hold for him because one can't bring revolvers into Canada. We then drove south to Helena, the Montana state capital. Being too crowded in town to have a...

Our cousins actually live outside Vancouver, in the greater metropolitan area, in the Tswassen area of Delta. It is an upscale suburban area with new houses, beautiful condos and many boutiques and sidewalk coffee shops. Tswassen is on a peninsula bordering the strait...

Finally, three days late, we were on our way again! and just in time, too! Wednesday morning we looked out the windows of the trailer and saw a dense coating og snow on all the cars in the yard. Too cold to walk the mile into town when you only have sneakers and a...

So, on Saturday, some hours after leaving Anchorage, we lost the drive train and moved into a room at Golden Bear Motel. At $100/day, even with the free coffee and cable TV, we did not want to stay very long. About 2pm, the son of Mr. James, the tow truck driver, came...

We got to Anchorage on Wednesday and started looking for a place to stay for a few days. We tend to use "Mileposts", a reference book, for all our decisions on where to go and what to see. The first place we looked for was right in the center of town. Great location....

We got about 2/3 of the way towards Anchorage and realized it was a bit too much to continue. So we stopped at an RV park which was really bare ones. No TV or sewer. But, like I have said, being self contained, we don’t really care for just one night. On Tuesday...

The part of the Alcan Highway in Alaska was somewhat better maintained than the part in the Yukon. This is not to demean the Yukon Highway Department, but more a realization of how different areas’ roadways can deteriorate at different rates. So, the roads in Alaska...

This has been a week of amazing scenery, culminating in an evening of impressive northern lights, albeit in movie form. We zigzagged our way across the Continental Divide several times early in the week, following the major roads north and west. After Jasper, we got...

The research for the upcoming book, "The Ragman Murders" took forever. It has been about twenty years since I first heard the story of the 1912 murder. Over time, I have been to the places in Hartford involved in the story. Eventually, I learned that part of the story...