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The Midnight Special

ITPS VOLUME 23

In the spring of 1944 and on The Midnight Special, Helen Meeker embarks on a wild ride requiring her team to find a Japanese American scientist, a missing and corrupt inventor, and a man named Waldo, while solving four different murder cases from three different decades.

With Murder Inc. targeting their moves, Meeker, Teresa Bryant, and Napoleon Lancelot take planes, trains, and automobiles, traveling to California, Michigan, Canada, Arkansas, Missouri, New York, and back to Chicago. Along the way they meet Henry Ford, join ranks with the Royal Mounted Police, defuse a bomb, dodge a few dozen bullets, dig up two graves, and visit an internment camp. With three unsolvable mysteries confounding the Chicago Police and the FBI, the trio then charters a special train and brings all the suspects together for a midnight ride in a luxury pullman car.

The Midnight Special pushes locked room murder cases to a new level, explores the legal ramifications of a man convicted of killing the same woman not once, but twice, and uncovers a murder that brings Meeker’s world crashing down. The frantic conclusion requires breaking a code, finding two different men both thought long dead, and determining the identity of a woman without a face. The Midnight Special is Meeker’s most complex case.

The clues are all there, can you solve the mystery before her team does?

DOC HOLIDAY
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For two decades Ace has been recognized as the “go to” source for all things Christmas. Each year, between Thanksgiving and December 25th, Ace is in such demand for print, radio, and television interviews and appearances with orchestras and choirs that he’s often called "Doc Holiday."

Reading his books has become a Christmas tradition for thousands!

In the other 11 months of the year, he focuses on his passion projects, mainly mystery book writings. His 21-novel series, In the President's Service, covers the fictional life of a strong, independent female detective who solves many mysteries during WWII to aid the troops.