By Jacklyn B. Melchior
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Clyde Jessup— formerly “head gofer” for Dr. Matilda Hunter, Dean of Students at Pascal College—has achieved his dream of being admitted to Pascal under their new re-entry program for older students. Clyde often feels the differences between himself and his classmates, both in terms of age and social class. Unlike his roommates, Clyde barely has enough money to make ends meet; but he does have a good head for business, and supports himself via his one-man “Brawn for Rent” company.
The real adventures begin when Dr. Hunter leaves on an extended trip to Africa and hires “Brawn for Rent” to house-sit. Clyde’s experience is useful in supervising the contractors continuing work on Dr. Hunter’s fascinating old house. He’s taken aback when his least favorite professor, who lives next door to Dr. Hunter, asks him to “keep an eye” on his two wayward children. When the same professor and his wife are found dead in their living room, and their son and daughter are implicated, Clyde feels a certain responsibility to investigate.
Plenty of people weren’t fond of the victims, but who actually killed them? Could it really have been one of the children? Their elusive half-brother? Or one of the neighbors—an eccentric old lady who is convinced her trees are being poisoned and explains everything by astrology; the richest man in town; and a reputed Mafia don? By the time Dr. Hunter returns, Clyde has reached back many years into the town’s shared memory to uncover the chilling motive of a present-day crime.
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About the Author
Jacklyn B. Melchior studied chemistry at the University of California, earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry, and taught for many years in medical schools. She was married for 57 years and raised two children. She has made her home in Sacramento, the Chicago suburbs, and in the East Bay.
Her creative writing career began at the age of eleven, when she won a prize of fifty cents in a poetry contest held by the Sacramento Union. After retirement, Jacklyn pursued writing more seriously. She attended a writers’ workshop for 25 years, and took several classes in various aspects of criminology and forensic science to add verisimilitude to her mysteries. She has published several short stories and is the author of six mystery novels. Read more
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