The Crime Files

About the Book

Story 1: Murder At The Studio

A photographer( Becky McCall) opened a studio in a small town, Penbroke Nevada. She took photos of kids ranging from 10-17, having sex together in a big white house. McCall was going to expose Penbroke on an NBC News program, but on the day that she´s going--she´s found beaten to death with a large wrench, in the studio. Penbroke Nevada´s known for it´s good hospitality; and antique museum and western entertainment center. A thing like that got out, the town would be ruined and the parents shamed. Harrison figures the parents of those kids, most likely killed Miss McCall, but which one?

Story 2: Trouble At E&W Electronics Harrison´s on his way home one night, when he deceivers a body of a woman, laying in the street. An apparent hit&run--she´s dead. Harrison investigates, he finds out her murder has to do with her job at E&W Electronics.

Story 3: Air races

Harrison and Marisa( assistant) visit the Reno Air races, to see their favorite pilot, Jonathan Price. After an hour into the race, Pryce´s plane an F-16 Falcon, goes down. Harrison must determine why the plane crashed, because Mr. Pryce had many years experance and flight hours.

Story 4: The Landlord

Harrison´s hired to find a missing a landlord( Verjil VanGee--when he turns up dead--Harrison must determine which suspects killed him...VanGee bullied tenants into paying more rent; and made sexual advances with some; wouldn´t rent to blacks.

Story 5: The Salesman

Harrison tries to get his friend, Chris Ortiz off of a murder charge. He´s assured of killing An Allen Auto Parts salesman, Julian Benitez. But there´s more people who would also want him dead: A business partner from the past; a fellow salesman and maybe some gangmember´s.

Story 6: Incident At The Meat Market

Two meat robber´s ( Ronnie Green, Kirman Prescott) are accused of robbing a meatmarket, not of murdering the owner, Larry Watts. They claim to have taken the meat, but not to murder. Harrison probes into the matter and finds more suspects, after nearly getting killed a couple of times: An ex-wife/ business partner in a prostitution ring and a dissatisfied customer. Was it really the meat robber´s? Or ex- wife that was cheated out of a lot of money? Or a client?

Story 7: Murder In Little Creek

Harrison looks into the suspicious death of a prostitute friend, Shannon Babbs. Did Bic Ramos, a man whose been arrested in the past for strangling and beating prostitutes, do it? Did a rival prostitute, Kathy Magilly, do it?

Story 8: The Notebook

Harrison´s hired by Alita Hernandez, to find her brother Melvin Hernandez, he didn´t show up at her house to take her son, Paulie to school. When Hernandez turns up dead, Harrison tries to find his killer. Things get more ugly when Alita´s beaten up and Melvin´s girlfriend, Norma VanPelt is beaten to death.

Story 9: A Mad Person

Harrison hired by an old lady, Mrs. Judy Elser to find her gray poodle. He chases the dog into an apartment, where a young lady, Jacki Goldenstein is found dead from multiple stab wounds. The Brook Bear Hospital; his favorite hospital. It´s personal, since Harrison knew some of the staff--and decides to look into the murder. Then a second nurse, Kim Watkin is stabbed to death and he soon may find out that he´s dealing with a serial killer, in Reno.

Story 10: The Painting

Harrison hired by the Gledhill Art Gallery, to recover a stolen priceless Indian Painting worth more than 10 million dollars. He must deal with a bunch of dangerous art thieves, nearly paying with his life.

About the Author

Darryl L Harrison is medium 5´10, 28 years old and divorced. He spend five years as a police officer, in Reno Nevada. After that, he was an Insurance Investigator for two years. When his friend, a homeless man, Bill Lander turned up dead, Harrison took it personal and began investigating the murder. Then things got even uglyer because more homeless people began turning up dead. After month of working on the case, finally, he found clues that led him to a man, John London, he told me, he committed the murder because seeing homeless people walking around sicken him--and, he thought putting them out of their misery was the best thing. Harrison investigation skills showed some interest and many people started asking him to help them solve crimes; and found people. That´s when he decided to go into business as a private investigator.

Harrison carries a gun, Smith&Wesson because since he´s been in this crime business, he´s run into some of the most, violent, most dangerous, most cunning and most sociopath the worlds ever known. He doesn´t always have to use his gun, because his boxing skills aren´t too bad. He´s beaten a lot of his suspects into confessing. He was a former middle weight boxer, for a couple of years. But he has run across people that fight a little more better...It happens.

Any given time, you´ll find Harrison playing blackjack at a local casino. He plays sometimes all night, if his luck continues, but then again sometimes he´ll loses everthing--and he´s fored to sale, the car, the home, and the business. Then he picks up a streak of luck and wins everything back. He like to eat out a lot, mostly at McDonald´s and Wendy´s, lets not forget Dominoes pizza is a big favorite too.

He´s not some one-man-army bullshit, either. His friends: Marisa (assistant); has helped him solve many cases; and Sgt. John Newsham has been a good source for information and sometimes he can be a tough cookie to swallow.

He´s easy-going, nice, funny and cultured. Because of this, most of his clients still keep coming back for more help and some are real close, enough to have lunch, dinner; and maybe sex. And word of mouth from satisfied clients--has given Harrison and even more thriving business.

He drinks bourbon, but not too much. A nice cold beer, once in a while. And, he also has a weakness for ham&cheese sandwiches and chocolate chip ice cream.

He likes to wear sport jackets, favorite colors: blue, brown, black, gray and red. Slacks: black, brown and gray-- blue and black jeans. He wears black and brown shoes, with hard soles.

And, he sometimes smokes cigars, green and brown. He´ll light up at a murder scene, at the office, at the police station; Sgt. John Newsham will more often than scream at him about it. Also, in resteraunts and supermarkets; the managers tend to steam up.

Darryl L. Harrison started writing in high school, quit after graduating. Then most recently started back up, going to the community college for a while and writer´s Digest School; where I studied with author/instructor, Mrs. Ardath Mayhar. My first book, the crime files.

Acknowledgments: I want to think Xlibris, for giving me an opportunity to publish this book; and Mrs. Ardath Mayhar, for passing some of her advise. People at my school: Mike Stone, Gail Witecker; Counselors: Candy; Pat and Pete Simone-- my parents. for the memory of Claudia Mae Betha Gwendolyn Betha Eddie Betha Pete Betha