Hammonasset House, 1903
Mystic, Connecticut
Astral travel to the afterlife is the premise for a celestial adventure that mixes suspense with irreverent comedy and satire. Now retired after a lackluster career as a detective, Benny Spielmacher disappears during an impulsive astral journey to Heaven in search of inspiration for a musical version of Paradise Lost. His former partner, Roscoe Duffy, risks the deadly perils of Chaos to find him, and the two soon find themselves is a life-and-death struggle to defeat a colossal conspiracy that threatens God Himself. To complicate matters, Roscoe falls in love with the late Rose Trautman and must figure out how to conduct an affair with a dead woman. In this witty romp through Heaven and Hell, the damned get limited air conditioning, a college education, and virtual sex. Those in heaven create virtual domains to suit their heart’s desire, and share Paradise with mafia dons, crackpots, villains, literary characters, and pagan gods and their monsters. This comic fantasy is rollicking good fun as two once-mediocre gumshoes finally become the heroes they always wanted to be.
$15.95 224 pages
ISBN 78-0-9801894-7-6