Assignments For Tavenaar

About the Book

When attorney Tavenaar, a partner in an influential law firm in Century City, California, asks  a   two man detective agency to run a small errand for him, one of the detectives, an ex cop,  wants to turn him down , as not doing that kind of trivial work.  The other  member of the small firm, a retired movie   production man, takes the job, saying  he knew the man and wondered what he was up to.  The pair spend the rest of the story trying to discover this as they become involved in searching for an heir to an immense fortune, in a  Beverly Hills murder.  a guided tour of the Navajo Nation,, a visit to the Big Sur area of California and involvement in a  major  catastrophe  there, followed by a trip to the Chicago Museum of Science and Engineering where deadly events begin for them.

    They   become involved with an Indian medicIne man or singer, an organized crime boss, a LAPD  homicide squad,   Chicago and LAPD bomb squads. the F.B.I., and a lovely young museum  worker who charms one of the detectives to his intense embarrassment.  They are

both mesmerized by attorney Tavenaar and his glittering eyes and clever manipulatons and by a strange and other worldly  character  who shadows and begins to threaten them., personally.

   They never fully  discover what Tavenaar had been up to until the very end of the story when, unfortunately neither of them is still around to see the story come to a surprising climax. Only  patient and diligent readers may   be able to work this  out for themselves.

About the Author

A Saturday’s child, the author has had many jobs since beginning to support himself at age 16. Grocery and bank clerk before the Second World War, Coast Guard seaman, merchant marine A., and army landing craft coxswain during it, and teacher-counselor for thirty years after the war. While teaching, he moonlighted in an amusement part and as an adult school teacher and librarian. After retirement he served on the 80 Olympic Games staff, put in fourteen years as an L.A.P.D. volunteer in a detective squad room, and is presently serving his Congregational church as a deacon. He has one wife, three children, nine grandchildren, and three great grandchildren, with more on the way.