MURDER, MAYHEM And MYSTERY In SAN MIGUEL

About the Book

This funny book takes a piercing look at the gringos living in the central highlands of Mexico. Maybe it is the altitude of 6,500 feet, or maybe it is a privilege of wealthy people, but Americans are pretty independent cusses when they settle in San Miguel de Allende.

Jack and Penny Battle live in San Miguel, where he writes pretty poor detective novels and his beautiful wife pas the bills. They solve the murder of an old dear who writes pornography in the first story. Political activists make fools of themselves in the second story, and one of them is killed for political correctness and money.

In the third story the Battles make a dangerous political force out of their gardener. Then a promoter of shady subdivisions defrauds the whole American colony, and is pulled up short by Penny Battle who pays no attention to Jack's advice to stay out of it. To know these people is to laugh, as much with them as at them. Pull up a tall drink and enjoy yourself.

About the Author

Distinguished wit and bon vivant, novelist Richard Crissman has a number of books available from iUniverse, and several in preparation. He is also preparing a book called How to Turn Your Idea into a Novel.

His offbeat fiction is about money and what it does to people: the power, the self-indulgence, and the glamour! He shares the secrets of making, keeping, and managing vast fortunes.

His characters are eccentric, foolish, and very human: nuts and nuggets. His plots are as unexpected and as American as PG Wodehouse plots were top-drawer British, and as exciting as those of Dick Francis.

Crissman and his beautiful wife moved to San Miguel de Allende from Santa Barbara, California. In either place, they are very much part of the milieu of which he writes.