Sam wants to be a pulp writer when he's just a mite older and write for Black Mask and Weird Tales, like his favorite writers Mr. Robert E. Howard and Mr. Dashiell Hammett. Right now, though, he works in the mill village's company store, where he can get himself a-plenty of pencils and notebooks. In his spare time, he helps Guy Henson, the village constable and veteran of The Great War, keep the peace around the mill.

Seems like Sam's going to have plenty of ideas for his first two mystery stories, though. First off, he and his friends find a woman's body in the river...a woman dyed purple. Next, Sam is delivering his Mama's breakfast biscuits to the mill workers and finds a man murdered in a locked and empty room.

Will Guy, Sam and their trusty dog Buster be able to discover the murderers?

Hope Sam's trusty pencil holds out...

K.G. McAbee has had several books and nearly a hundred short stories published, some of them quite readable. She takes her geekdom seriously, never misses a sci-fi con, loves dogs and iced tea, and believes the words 'Stan Lee' are interchangeable with 'The Almighty.' She writes steampunk, fantasy, science fiction, horror, pulp, westerns and, most recently, comics. She's a member of Horror Writers Association and International Thriller Writers and is an Artist in Residence with the South Carolina Arts Commission. Her steampunk/zombie novella, BLACKTHORNE AND ROSE: AGENTS OF D.I.R.E. received an honorable mention in the 3rd quarter Writers of the Future contest. She won the prestigious Black Orchid Novella Award, sponsored by The Wolfe Pack and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, for 'Dyed to Death', a story set in a 1920s mill village. Please visit her website: www.kgmcabeebooks.com or email her at kgmcabee@gmail.com