Two Left Shoes

About the Book

Two Left Shoes is a book of murder and intrigue on the mountain slopes of Colorado. The CID investigator of the US Army Criminal Investigation, Lt. Col. Dan Jorgensen, is visiting friends that he met at the end of World War II. His friends manage a ski lodge, and his presence brings back memories of anxiety and fear for his friends. A young woman’s body is found in an irrigation canal. A youngster rushes to the lodge in panic to report the find. The chief of police and a deputy county sheriff respond to the call. The deputy asked Dan to go with them to recover the dead body. Dan went with the officers and noticed some peculiar items pertaining to the body. The chief of police asked Dan for a meeting where Dan reported his findings. The meeting resulted in Dan being struck with Cupid’s arrow when he saw the police officer that recorded Dan’s statement. The attractive police officer, Grace Herndon, is apparently the target of Cupid’s arrows. A love at first sight develops. Dan’s observations appeared immediately in the local paper. This article painted a bull’s eye target on Dan’s back, figuratively, and Dan was almost immediately the target for several attempts on his life. The rest of the story follows the trend of attempts on his life. What is the power or source of the attempts?

About the Author

Milton M. Beck is a veterinarian with three years of postdoctoral studies of environmental toxicology. He got the idea for this book when he saw several ski boots on the porch of one of his clients. He had to give up practice after a doctor told him, “Change locations and change occupations or be put in a pine box.” This didn’t leave too many options. He worked for a few years for the health department in Utah studying the health effects of environmental pollutants. He later worked for the state of Delaware overseeing the investigation of toxic waste sites. This was followed by years working for the Air Force providing guidance for the cleanup of toxic sites of one of their bases. After retiring, he moved to the western side of the Olympic Peninsula and helped one of the native Indian tribes get out of trouble with a number of federal and local governmental agencies. He is a volunteer for the American Red Cross and for a local minimal security correction center where he and his wife meet with inmates weekly at the correction center. He is also an appointed member of the city planning commission and is active in his church. He is actively engaged in trying to prepare the area for a massive earthquake that is expected to hit the west coast of northwestern United States and western Canada. In his spare time, he enjoys rock hounding and writing mysteries. Mysteries are a bit of departure from his writing of scientific and technical materials.