Douglas Chandler Graham grew up in rural Virginia close to Lakeside Amusement Park. He worked summers at this park from the age of twelve until he was eighteen when he joined the U.S. Army Air Force. Honorably discharged from the military, he became a street cop in Roanoke, Virginia. Over the years, he has been a bill collector, salesman, and postman. After retiring from the Postal Service, he became a certified private investigator and bodyguard. He has lived in Florida since 2000.
His first book ‘Smoke and Murders’ is a fictionalized story of the murder of the Hodges family as discovered in the small town of Vinton, Virginia, on August 29, 1994. Most of the characters are composites of people known to the author and, except for the murders; most of the situations are made up. Fascinated by the sequence of events as they unfolded, the author could not get the crime off his mind, and over the years, Smoke and Murders evolved. Urged by family and friends to finish the story, the author hopes that it will spark some interest in the real story of a man he believes was falsely convicted.
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First Book:
Smoke and Murders by Douglas Chandler Graham
This is a fictionalized story of the murder of the Hodges family as discovered in the small town of Vinton, Virginia, on August 29, 1994. Most of the characters are composites of people known to the author and, except for the murders; most of the situations are made up. Fascinated by the sequence of events as they unfolded, the author could not get the crime off his mind, and over the years, Smoke and Murders evolved. Urged by family and friends to finish the story, the author hopes that it will spark some interest in the real story of a man he believes was falsely convicted.
That story is on the internet at http://www.allamosa.com
Product Details:
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Llumina Press (March 11, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1605942499
ISBN-13: 978-1605942490
Paper Back Price: $12.95
Hard Cover Price: $27.95
Genre: True Crime/Biography & Autobiography/
Paper Back Price: $12.95
Hard Cover Price: $27.95
Purchase Link:
http://www.amazon.com/
Sequel to Smoke and Murders (“Three Trailers Down”) Is Here As Promised!
Three Trailers Down by Douglas Chandler Graham is the extended story that began in Smoke and Murders.
Although this may be regarded as a sequel it is a complete novel. After the small town of Vinyard is about to settle down after the murders of an entire family, new problems arise to keep the gossip pot boiling.
The story follows the Lieutenant that ran the Vinyard police department and was caught and fired for multiple criminal offenses.
Intrigue, murders, sex and money drive just about all the characters in Three Trailers Down, at least, the more sophisticated ones. The rest take life as they find it.
Douglas Chandler Graham tried to get dozens of organizations to look at the arrest and trial of Earl Bramblett in the five years after his trial while on death row. All were overloaded with other cases they were working, which should give some indication of justice in America, or the lack thereof. High profile cases give the impression every fact is checked and all evidence is examined. In the dark courtrooms of America “justice” is whatever the court determines, the law be damned. A prime example of this is on the ten year old website allamosa.com.
There was no justice in that trial and it cost Bramblett his life.
Details:
ISBN: 1-4415-5755-
ISBN13: 978-1-4415-5755-
Pages: 278
Book Format: Trade Book 6x9
Genre: True Crime/Biography & Autobiography/
Print Price: $19.99
Purchase Links:
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Douglas Chandler Graham Author’s Pages On Books In Sync:
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Author’s Websites:
http://www.threetrailersdown.com
http://smokeandmurders.com
http://allamosa.com
http://www.llumina.com/
Author’s Email:
graham.doug@
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