The Cold Case

John Mauldin's leading an idyllic and tranquil life until one morning, his old Houston detective friend, Larry Wagner, shows up unexpectedly at John's office. Larry announces that he's come to look into several cold cases involving the deaths of Cynthia and David Arbogast, mainly since his retirement has become boring. Around the same time, Mauldin acquires a new client, Priscilla Brown, who retains him to help negotiate the sale of some multi-million-dollar stock in a closely-held company that her deceased husband acquired a long time ago. As Larry turns up new and interesting circumstances of the deaths and Mauldin finds his client threatened, the two projects gradually merge, the circumstances of the deaths are finally made clear, another death occurs, and the evil-doers are identified.

John Mauldin's leading an idyllic and tranquil life until one morning, his old Houston detective friend, Larry Wagner, shows up unexpectedly at John's office. Larry announces that he's come to look into several cold cases involving the deaths of Cynthia and David Arbogast, mainly since his retirement has become boring. Around the same time, Mauldin acquires a new client, Priscilla Brown, who retains him to help negotiate the sale of some multi-million-dollar stock in a closely-held company that her deceased husband acquired a long time ago. As Larry turns up new and interesting circumstances of the deaths and Mauldin finds his client threatened, the two projects gradually merge, the circumstances of the deaths are finally made clear, another death occurs, and the evil-doers are identified.

Eddy Rogers, a retired corporate attorney, lives in the hill country of Texas. After moving to Blanco County, Rogers took up writing mystery/thriller novels as an avocation while gliding toward full retirement. The Cold Case is his sixth novelette. This and his other works are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.