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  • A Casebook of Curious Cases
    Adam Dumphy
    'Fact is stranger than fiction' is a common American maxim. It ought to be true as it has been repeated innumerable times for at least six generations. As with so many things written down, Adam Dumphy does not agree. He feels that if this is true writers of fiction should be ashamed. They are not doing their job.Adam much prefers Mark Twain’s 'First get the facts then you can s...
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  • Tales the Firelight Tells Me
    Adam Dumphy
    One of the nicest things about living thirty-odd, ox cart miles from the nearest town, and that ’town’ only a few adobes and a cattle loading chute astride the railroad, is the quiet that allows me to hear the tales the firelight tells. And being located in North-Central Sonora, Mexico, the peculiar stillness and peace of the high desert adds to the lack of clamor and ma...
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    23,20 €

  • The Search For The Etruscan Venus
    Adam Dumphy
    The Etruscan Venus, if she were wearing a blouse had every right to pin on it the Purple Heart or British Army equivalent. But like her compatriot the Venus de Milo she sported neither a blouse nor even BVDs. The most famous statue in all Northern Italy she was also one of the best preserved, lacking only the fifth finger of her left hand from being totally intact. That ...
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    23,14 €

  • Squibs Scribbles and Orphans
    Adam Dumphy
    Adobe days in the 30’s, Navy days in the 40’s, medical days of the 40’s to 90’s, writing days in the 2000’s and a summation make up this offering. Adam Dumphy has sorted through these times and brought out what he feels is the spirit of his past in these little stories. Experiences unknown to others, especially those members of the present generation, seem important now and wor...
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  • The Gentle Land
    Adam Dumphy
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  • Travels and Travails of a Certified Grouch
    Adam Dumphy
    When is a kidnap not a kidnap or a train robbery not a train robbery? How does one prove paternity when conception occurred sixty years earlier on an Indian reservation with limited written records? How nearly can the human mind produce total recall if carefully questioned? How does one dispose of unwanted ill-gotten gains and remain under the radar of the IRS?Dr. Thomas McDuff...
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    28,60 €

  • Ogam Revisited
    Adam Dumphy
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    20,28 €

  • Let Me Tell You About Osh
    Adam Dumphy
    Even into the late 90’s Pine Valley, a bucolic village in the mountains above San Diego, CA was a divided community. Not by race or religion but by propane vs electricity, piped in water vs a walk to the well, and septic vs outhouse.Responsible for the maintenance of all of these was Osh Oshman, the premier fixit man in the hill country. In his propane powered, ancient Ford tru...
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    20,44 €

  • Last Summer at the Ranch and the River
    Adam Dumphy
    Herding caterpillars; raiding a neighbor’s tall peach tree by means of stilts; constructing a fake 'Loch Ness Monster' with canvas and a derelict canoe; machinations in a Pawn Shop to obtain the fur coat of a ’genuine’ Eskimo Princess: or even adding paddling (with a real paddle) as the initiation fee for the prestigious San Francisco based Paddle and Canoe Club are hardly crim...
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    20,31 €

  • The Annals of Cheskovscha
    Adam Dumphy
    Marriage by proxy was not uncommon in England during World War I. Couples separated by great distances and for long periods of time found comfort in this real if not physical sacrament. It did, however, lead to some unlikely unions.Among the Royals it was different. Victoria’s numerous progeny were already checkerboarded by marriage across the length and breadth of Europe that ...
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    22,98 €

  • THE UNLIKELY ADVENTURES OF RANULF THE UNREADY
    Adam Dumphy
    Near the end of the first year of WWI a woman presented herself to the American Embassy at Sofija, the Americans still neutrals, then doing the routine diplomatic duties of the warring nations. She was short and blonde and would have been a beauty except for a raw scar across her forehead and down on to her cheek and the ravages to be expected from far advanced pregnancy in a s...
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    21,93 €

  • A Trilogy of What 'Might Have Been' in the Spanish Civil War
    Adam Dumphy
    From three documented mysteries of the Spanish Civil War of 1936 the author has woven fictional accounts that may explain the mysteries.First is the account of the ’Joy Riders’ at the Siege of the Alcazar. A car drove deliberately to the street between the opposing forces. A young woman slowly emerged and sat on the fender lighting a cigarette and calmly awaited the flood of bu...
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    19,08 €

  • The Misadventures of a 'Modern Day' Gibson Girl
    Adam Dumphy
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    16,79 €

  • Annals of Chesty O’Dunahy
    Adam Dumphy
    The U.S. Marines have never had need of a publicist. Still they have had many. None can compare with Col. J.W.T. Jr. When one of his books came out with his sketches the young ridge runners, North and South would come down out of the mountains by the droves to have their manes roached, hoofs trimmed and enlist.Colonel T. established the idealized example of them as hard drinkin...
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    22,37 €

  • The Unlikely Adventures of Ranulf the Unready
    Adam Dumphy
    Introducing Ranulf, 'the unready', fictional descendant of Ethelred 'the unready' a medieval Saxon Kinglet. Ranny, Seventh Viscount Lindley is tour guide for some troubled friends through the Balkans in 1914.There is Dimitrov and his bomb, the nicest Nihilist anyone could hope to meet but troubled at his girl friend Revolta’s late nights out 'at the library'. Svetislof a fish ...
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    22,74 €

  • THE FALL OF FRANCE FOLLIES
    Adam Dumphy
    Little known to this day is the fact that the fate of France in the Phony War of 1939-40 was fought out as much in the salons of the ’Faubourg’ as in the Chamber of Deputies or on the battlefields where there were no battles.Two women who could be called the mistresses of the most powerful men in the French government waged a savage war, jousting for power and position to the d...
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    22,72 €

  • The Meeky Mouse
    Adam Dumphy
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    23,42 €

  • An Enigma Solved
    Adam Dumphy
    A story within a story, this is a romantic novel in the style of the 1940’s, which means it is brief, simple, plausible and clean. The first protagonist, a Hessian Lt. with Burgoyne’s Army at Saratoga in 1777, and an ancestor of the author, is sent with dispatches to General Cornwallis at Charleston. On a subsequent (fictional) trip his troop is ambushed carrying a British war ...
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    17,20 €

  • WESTINGHOUSE PATENT Pend. and Friends
    Adam Dumphy
    The morning of his eighteen birthday Westinghouse Patent Pend. Ainstruther hears his Ma say, 'Wes, break a leg.'He realizes it is carnie talk telling him to leave the desolate homestead to go out in the world to make his fortune and send it back, that the other eight kid’s ration of corn meal mush and goat’s milk not be permanently interrupted.Unschooled he is well read from hi...
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    22,90 €

  • The Unlikely Adventures of Ranulf The Unready
    Adam Dumphy
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    22,73 €

  • Minneapolis Is Missing?
    Adam Dumphy
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    22,69 €

  • Inspector Bentwhistle’s Last Tango
    Adam Dumphy
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    19,46 €