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Five Cooper short stories compiled into this 61,000 word novel, now available in audiobook.

It's business as usual for Matt Cooper's son, Clay and his grandson, Elliott...well almost. Something has got Clay distracted. He's found himself a girlfriend and Elliott's dying to know who the lucky woman is. Clay's not about to kiss and tell, and besides, they have a triple homicide to look into and they don't need the distraction of a woman slowing their reaction times. The things these two private eyes are into could prove deadly for one of them, but it isn't what you might expect.

Elliott is hired to find a witness to a fatal auto accident that happened right outside his office building. Matt is hired to get the goods on a nasty neighbor who seems to be vandalizing his own property in an effort to frame his neighbor. But why?

Elliott and his son Matt are hired to babysit an important witness and make sure he makes it to court to testify Monday morning. Elliott takes him to a rented cabin in the mountains and quickly realizes that someone else knows he's there...and they're after the witness.

Matt also has some big news for Elliott and Gloria. Meanwhile Gloria joins Elliott on her last case before she retires to make room for Matt. They're checking the background of a potential investor when that client turns up dead - hanging in his own living room. Suicide? Elliott doesn't think so.

Short Story Twelve-Pack runs nearly four hours and consists of 12 short stories, including: "Now We're Even:" Payback to a former high school bully can be really satisfying if you do it right; "Paine in the Ass:" How to put the office know-it-all in his place once and for all; "Pieces of Eight:" Does the vacant neighbor's house really have gold doubloons hidden in its walls?; "Precious:" She's got all the money and he's envious. Now, how to get rid of her without going to prison.

A publishing company wants to do a book the entire Cooper clan, starting with Matt. The publisher also has a movie deal lined up after the book is released. The Coopers' private lives will soon become public-very public. Things heat up during the interview process when Clay lets some family secrets slip out and they end up in the book. Meanwhile, Clay, Elliott and Gloria enlist retired police lieutenant Dean Hollister's help in tracking down the man who killed Gloria's father more than three years earlier.

Cooper Five-Pack consists of the following short stories: "051 - Revenge Never Expires," "052 - Head Shot," "062 - Classified Information," "065 - The Best Offense," and "066 - Jack The Stripper."

Matt's single again but he's not on the prowl for another woman. He's mugged on his way home from the movies, stabbed, shot and left for dead. Has Amy had enough? What will become of them as a couple? The answers are all right here in this 35th installment of Matt Cooper, Private Eye.

Cooper Times Three consists of the following short stories: "085 - Nut Job:" Somebody's breaking neighborhood merchants' windows with a slingshot loaded with nuts. "089 - The Hollister Story:" Back story on L.A.P.D. policeman, Dan Hollister and his son, Dean. "090 - Hell Is Other People:" Gruesome killer is stalking victims in Hollywood. Cooper tries to find him.

Is it possible to scare someone to death? Absolutely. And that's just what this pair of killers is doing so as not to leave any traces of trauma on the victims. Each death appears to be caused by a heart attack. Why does Elliott NOT want to get involved in this case, now that his business is called Cooper and Son again? The answers are all right here in this 122nd installment of the four generations of Coopers in the private eye business.

Short Story Seven-Pack runs nearly three hours and consists of the following short stories: "Eat Your Peas," "Forever," "Free Enterprise," "Have Gum Will Travel," "Overdue," "Send In The Clowns," and "The Lesson."

Four short Cooper stories compiled into this audio novella.

The Pickpocket Chronicles consists of the following short stories:

• 1). "Candy From a Baby" (Introduces our three pickpockets plying their trade at the Milwaukee Circus Parade).
• 2). "I Lean and Rob" (Pickpockets move north to Sheboygan to work the Bratwurst Day festival).
• 3). "California or Bust" (Pickpockets move to Hollywood and pick the wrong people to rob).

Neighborhood businesses are being plastered with graffiti - some of it artful and some of it garbage. The police want to hire Elliott to find these spray can artists and offer them a deal of working with the merchants. Elliott is on another case, so Gloria steps up and handles this one with surprising results. The two brothers who are leaving their marks all over the city have been tagged The Marks Brothers by the merchants.

Elliott Cooper's off to Las Vegas for a week-long P.I. convention and he's driving there in his new car. He stops for gas in Barstow and two thugs carjack him and his car. They slug him, dump him in the desert and leave him for dead. This could have been the end for Elliott Cooper had Jane not come along when she did. She takes Elliott back to her house in the middle of nowhere. Elliott had been hit so hard on the head that now he can't remember who he is, what he is and where he belongs.

Most people who've read it think it's a work of fiction from a guy with a fantastic imagination, but actually it's not fiction at all. I tell those people that it's "95% truth with 5% embellishment for humor's sake." This autobiography covers more than 50 years, from the time I was four and was run over by a car and dragged along a Chicago street, to the present day. If there had to be a central theme, it would be the story of growing up in a dysfunctional family with nine children during the 50s and 60s.

The time is 1945, the place is Hollywood. Matt Cooper is still a policeman and owning his own private eye business is still a year off. He and Dan Hollister are investigating a series of murders who's victims were all guilty of the same thing - petty crimes. Of all the stories I've ever written, I like the ending of this one the best.

Matt Cooper - First Cases consists of three short stories.

Jerry Bernard is the sleaziest of all sleazeball car salesmen. And when he gets Elliott Cooper in his grasp, you know one of them is going to get screwed...and it won't be Jerry. Gloria has gone along with Elliott to look at new cars. Elliott's new at these sales negotiations, Jerry is not. In fact, after Jerry financially rapes his customers, he tells his sales manager that he just took a passage from the bible -"I saw a stranger and took him in." He took Elliott in, all right, but payback can be a real bitch.