Author Jim Musgrave's Detective Patrick O'Malley Investigates Poe's Death In "Forevermore!"

LOS ANGELES - June 26, 2013 - PRLog -- There is a new detective in the world of literature, and he’s hitting the mark with mystery lovers, history buffs and SteamPunk aficionados alike right from his first appearance in the novel “Forevermore.”  

Irishman and Civil War hero Patrick O’Malley is living in the cottage of his old friend Edgar Allan Poe. When he finds a page of notes left behind by the author of The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven he makes it his mission to investigate the bizarre circumstances of Poe’s death.

Jim Musgrave refers to the O’Malley series as mini-mysteries, short enough to read anywhere. The inspiration seems to come from Poe himself who said, "If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression—for, if two sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and everything like totality is at once destroyed."

In fact, Musgrave has created an app which he describes as helping the reader keep the 1860s in their pocket. Sounds rather like writer of haunting poetry and tales of terror, Poe himself, who also had interests in scientific developments of his time. Forevermore is now a great audiobook read by Shandon Loring, in his dramatic Irish voice.

Disappearance At Mount Sinai, the second O’Malley offering, the wealthiest inventor in America has been kidnapped leading O’Malley and his cohorts to Tennessee where they must infiltrate racist, anti-Semitic groups to find and rescue him. At the crux of this case are a Jewish father and his eight-year-old son, Seth. They have developed a unique bond that relies on Jewish folklore and a belief that they are Mazikeen, half-angel and half-human, born from the loins of Adam's strange female cohorts during the 130 years he was banished from the Garden.

Hester Jane Haskins, or Jane The Grabber as she was known when she ran a brothel in late 19^th century New York City, is at the heart of the third O’Malley Mystery in all of her bawdy, corrupt, carnal pleasure hustling glory.

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