THE RELUCTANT JURIST: Peter Sharp Legal Mystery #8 (Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries) [Kindle Edition]

Gene Grossman (Author)

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Product Description

A mini flu epidemic going around in Southern California has taken its toll among Superior Court Judges in Santa Monica, who all seem to have been infected at the same conference they attended.

This judge shortage requires the county to ‘draft’ some experienced trial lawyers to fill in, and attorney Peter Sharp gets the call to fill in as a temporary judge for some civil matters, but winds up getting stuck hearing a big criminal trial involving a devious attorney as the defendant.

Suspense enters the picture when Peter’s legal ward Suzi fails to appear as guest of honor at her own 13th birthday party, and every local state and Federal peace officer in California wants to help locate her. This is the first adventure in which Suzi’s Saint Bernard can take partial credit for solving the case.

Peter Sharp’s small law firm operates from his 50-foot Grand Banks trawler yacht in Marina del Rey, California… the vessel that Peter still doesn’t know how to drive, and as in their past adventures, all involved continue to visit the local haunts… and, in one way or another, each of Peter’s cases winds up becoming a conflict with his ex-wife Myra, who is the county’s chief prosecutor.

All thirteen of the Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries are now available in both print and Kindle versions. For more details and Amazon.com ordering information, visit www.LegalMystery.com

About the Author

Gene Grossman worked his way through high school, college, and law school as a shoe salesman, welder, process server, bail bondsman, tire changer, saloon piano player and 'extra,' appearing in seven motion pictures. He then spent 20 years as a trial lawyer, during which time he served as Dean of a small law school, where he also taught several classes. The film & video company he started produced over fifty special interest DVD titles on everything from boating, to bankruptcy. Now retired from the practice of law, Gene writes aboard his yacht in Marina del Rey, California. The Peter Sharp Legal Mystery Series Gene created is a set of twelve stories: #1: Single Jeopardy #2: ...By Reason of Sanity #3: A Class Action #4: Conspiracy of Innocence #5: ...Until Proven Innocent #6: The Common Law #7: The Magician's Legacy #8: The Reluctant Jurist #9: The Final Case #10: An Element of Peril #11: A Good Alibi #12: Legally Dead Orders for all books are handled and shipped by Amazon.com and can be ordered through the publisher?s website at www.legalmystery.com, where full descriptions are given.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 122 KB
• Print Length: 188 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1882629728
• Publisher: Magic Lamp Press; 2 edition (March 11, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002BA4BMU
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #385,335 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #31 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Law > Criminal Law > Evidence
  • #31 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Law > Criminal Law > Evidence

More About the Author

Gene Grossman was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the North side neighborhood of Albany Park, attending Hibbard Elementary and Von Steuben High School. He pursued majors in psychology, chemistry and mathematics at Wright Junior College, Roosevelt University and Illinois Institute of Technology - all the while working his way through high school and college by playing piano in clubs on Chicago's then-famous "Rush Street."

After moving to Southern California, he worked his way through law school playing piano, and appeared as a musician in seven major motion pictures.

While slowly building his law practice, Gene purchased a truckload of movie equipment (a 5-ton grip & light package) that he rented out to flim production companies.

Always having been interested in boating, getting divorced prompted him to move onto a 45-foot Chris Craft motor yacht in Marina del Rey California, instead of into an apartment.

Years later, while serving as navigator on a yacht delivery from the U.S. to Tortola, Gene wrote his first book, Celestial Navigation for Dummies (some time before the popular series of 'Dummies' books was created). He used his own production equipment to shoot a video on the subject Celestial Navigation, Sextant Use and the Sun Noon Shot and at the same time unintentionally started the nautical video industry.

Over the next few years he followed that first title up with more than 30 other educational video titles (now in DVD format) now all featured on BoatingDVDs.com, one of 93 different domains his production company maintains on the internet, featuring many categories of educational programs (MagicLampDVDs.com).

Having moved on from doing scripts for his video productions, Gene turned to writing fiction, and now spends most of his time in the marina on his yacht, the "Magic Lamp," where he created the 15-book series of Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries, all now available on Amazon through LegalMystery.com.

In addition to the 15 Peter Sharp novels, Gene compiled a group of fiction and non-fiction titles that he has either written or edited for others, plus some classic stories: the publishing company he formed (MagicLampPress.com) now has more than 50 books in print, with 35 of them written by Gene under his own name or several pen names that he humorously keeps secret.

His latest venture is a company that provides financing for post-production (completion) of motion pictures - www.FilmCompletionFinance.com