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# P X Duke

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- [Trouble in Paradise](https://pxduke.com/trouble-in-paradise/) - Jim Nash hasn't said word one to Maddie, but he's considering shutting down the detective business he started years ago. They're comfortable in their surroundings without the need for more business, thanks to the cash that's accumulated over the years. His biggest problem is how he'll broach the subject to Maddie. When Harry Delany comes
- [The Lady in Yellow](https://pxduke.com/the-lady-in-yellow/) - Jim Nash and the fedora Maddie has forbidden him to wear in public is on another tear. This time, he’s after a woman wearing a yellow dress who shows up at his office. Melanie Taylor wants him to prove she hasn’t murdered her husband in cold blood. Nash is reluctant to accept the case—that is,
- [No Escape](https://pxduke.com/no-escape/) - The wedding of Jim Nash and Maddie Spence has gone off without a hitch—that is, until Maddie gets a bee in her bonnet about Djibouti in North Africa. While the couple honeymoon in Málaga, Spain, Jim is offered a flight to Djibouti to visit for a couple of days. Maddie jumps at the chance to
- [Blame It on Djibouti](https://pxduke.com/blame-it-on-djibouti/) - Jim Nash and Maddie Spence finally tie the knot in the Boyle's back yard. After the small ceremony is concluded, they jet off to Florence, Italy, for the beginning of their month-long honeymoon. Unbeknownst to Jim, his bride has plans for one last stop in Málaga, Spain, before they fly home. She has arranged for a huge dinner for their new friends, Harry Delaney and Mike Williams and their families.
- [Stealing America](https://pxduke.com/stealing-america/) - Jim Nash and Maddie Spence, partners in business and in life, are going through some tough times. Business has been slow. The pair is on the verge of losing Jim's private investigator business. The only thing they have going for them is the office building and the residences they operate. They own the building outright.
- [After Hours](https://pxduke.com/after-hours/) - Frank Ross is back on the road, holed up in a taverna somewhere on the Texas panhandle. He's hoping to evade a John Law who spotted him riding through town.
- [Sand Storm](https://pxduke.com/sand-storm/) - Harry Delaney has finally accepted the offer from his partner, Mike Williams. He has sold his 49 percent share of the flying business to Mike. Harry and his family and Ziv Frakter have deserted the cold weather and moved on. They're living in Spain, where they're enjoying the good life of warm weather, blue sky,
- [Lobo](https://pxduke.com/lobo/) - Jim Nash is back down Mexico way, and he's not happy about it. That could be because he's helping a friend track down a cold-blooded killer who also happens to be the woman's daughter. It might be because he's KOS-Kill On Sight-thanks to a narrow escape from cartel sicarios a number of years ago. Or, Jim Nash is back down Mexico way, and he's not happy about it.
- [GO-AROUND](https://pxduke.com/go-around/) - Harry Delaney is living the good life. He's flying the airplane he loves. He's able to spend time with his family on a regular basis. When he closes the hangar door at the end of the day and comes home, his wife and daughter are happy to see him. It's taken him a long time
- [Dead Reckoning - A new story line](https://pxduke.com/a-new-story-line/) - I've been plugging away on Dead Reckoning, a new line about a couple of hapless losers who take the bait and subsequently wind up being chased up the Baja by banditos in search of stolen loot.
- [Dead Reckoning has a first draft](https://pxduke.com/dead-reckoning-has-a-first-draft/) - I now have a manageable first draft of Dead Reckoning at 28,000 words. Let the cutting begin.
- [Uncharted](https://pxduke.com/uncharted/) - Harry Delaney is back on the Horn of Africa, smuggling guns and falling in love while partying it up on a Nairobi R&R. When Kari, his latest love interest ends up in his desert camp, she saves a squad of his men during a shootout. The episode only serves to convince him she is the
- [Mexico Time](https://pxduke.com/mexico-time-coming-soon/) - E-book available at all the usual suspects in the sidebar. Print book available from Amazon, too. Jim Nash is off the reservation, in more ways than one. His partner doesn’t know where he is, and for good reason. If she found out, she’d kill him if she got the chance, and he isn’t about to
- [No Way Out](https://pxduke.com/no-way-out/) - E-book available from all the usual suspects in the sidebar. Print book available from Amazon, too. Frank Ross likes to spend the winter down on the Baja. Come spring, he heads north to start the bike rally circuit looking for work. When his ride breaks down 70 miles north of the Mexican border, he's forced
- [No Free Ride](https://pxduke.com/no-free-ride/) - Jim Nash is a private detective who has occasionally made his living on the shady side of the street. In his past, he has done off-the-book work for the Feds. One of those old jobs has returned to haunt him. A women he long thought dead comes back into his life when she shows up
- [Gone](https://pxduke.com/gone/) - Maddie Spence is supposed to be at home, helping her partner in the business, Jim Nash, write a report on their latest caper. She gets a call from a friend to ask for help with their missing daughter. Upon arrival, she learns it was a false alarm, and she and Friday head off into the
- [Long Way Home](https://pxduke.com/long-way-home/) - When Harry's ex, Sasha, takes their daughter to Africa with her boyfriend, the trio goes missing and Harry is willingly drawn into the search. A coded message is sent that gives up their location, leading Harry and his old friends on an air and ground chase across the Horn of Africa.
- [The Snap-Brim Fedora Caper](https://pxduke.com/the-snap-brim-fedora-caper/) - Private Investigator Jim Nash is the lucky recipient of an anniversary gift courtesy of his business partner.
- [Wedding Bell Blues](https://pxduke.com/wedding-bell-blues/) - Jim Nash has no plans to attend the wedding of former best friend Warren to Allie Sands, a girlfriend from his past. All that goes out the window.
- [Breakdown](https://pxduke.com/coming-soon/) - Jim Nash, his business partner Maddie Stone, and faithful good boy Friday are called into service to find a missing wife. Holly, the missing woman's curly-haired daughter spies furry Fwiday, and fun and games ensue.
- [Helping Santa](https://pxduke.com/just-time-christmas/) - Retired detective Jim Nash gets caught up in the Christmas spirit when his girlfriend talks him into doing a stint as a mall Santa on the day before Christmas.
- [Forget Me Not](https://pxduke.com/coming-soon-forget-me-not/) - Emma Mayberry is fulfilling her dream of becoming a paramedic at a college on the Florida Panhandle. She’s a long way from her home town of Escape, but she’s coping and even has a part-time job and a boyfriend. At least, she does, until she goes missing. Fiona Lubinski is out of prison and looking
- [All The Glitter](https://pxduke.com/all-the-glitter-available-now/) - Maddie Spence is left to her own devices after her partner in business and romance has left her in the lurch with nary so much as an explanation or a phone call to alleviate her worries. With Jim Nash MIA, she takes on a case involving a strip club and credit card scammers. Thanks to
- [Revenge Is Justice](https://pxduke.com/revenge-is-justice/) - Jim Nash has been chasing the ghosts in his life for too long. His business partner has deserted him and he doesn’t know if she’s coming back.
- [Escape](https://pxduke.com/escape/) - Jim Nash takes his crew on a well-deserved vacation and ends up knee-deep in trouble when, trapped in a blizzard, he is forced to delay their trip to a ski lodge in the Colorado mountains.
- [Bank Robber Dames short stories](https://pxduke.com/bank-robber-dames-short-stories/) - Updated and re-issued, this collection of short stories hits all the high spots-or the low spots, depending on one’s point of view. There’s a visit to a strip club off the 15 in Montana; an encounter with a hitch-hiker on the 10 in New Mexico; romancing a truck-driving sweetheart in a sleeper at a California truck stop; a smile from a reformed addict in North Dakota.
- [Dead Reckoning available at iBookstore and Kobo](https://pxduke.com/dead-reckoning-available-at-ibookstore-and-kobo/) - During Harry’s well-deserved R&R on mainland Mexico, he picks up something he doesn’t own that will force him to flee across the Sea of Cortez to the Baja. While Harry hides out on an isolated beach, two gringas show up to complicate Harry’s life, attempting to implicate him in their own scheme that will result in a mad dash up the Baja to escape the consequences of their actions.
- [Long Way Home](https://pxduke.com/long-way-home-is-now-at-ibookstore-smashwords/) - Long Way Home was uploaded to Smashwords.com late last night. I hope readers of the sequel to Dead Reckoning enjoy catching up with some of the backstory to Harry and Mike as well as their new adventure in Africa.
- [2017 - The Last President](https://pxduke.com/2017-last-president/) - Russell finally accepts that he has escaped the purging of humanity from the city. He hunkers down in an abandoned house in a suburb far from the city’s center. In the mess left behind, managing for his day-to-day needs occupies every waking hour. When he accidentally encounters someone else doing the same, he sets out to discover who it is that is trapped in a situation not dissimilar to his own.
- [Is anyone wondering where I've been?](https://pxduke.com/anyone-wondering-ive/) - I've been busy writing-roughly 250,000 words a year. It's all accessible in the sidebar from Amazon, B&N, Google Play, Smashwords, and the iBookstore.
- [No Harbor - Jim Nash #12](https://pxduke.com/no-harbor-jim-nash-12-went-live-weekend/) - Tempted by old and familiar love into leaving the only safe harbor he has known, Jim Nash is forced into making choices that could forever affect his life.
- [Dreams Die Hard](https://pxduke.com/dreams-die-hard-available-at-ibookstore-and-kobo/) - Frank Ross is heading for the anonymity of the bright lights and big city in an attempt to make good his escape from a cartel hit squad. He's got a reformed junkie riding bitch on the back of his motorcycle that someone tries to kill with a Molotov cocktail–and Frank doesn't even drink.
- [Fast Food Slow Waitress short stories](https://pxduke.com/fast-food-slow-waitress-short-stories/) - Five short stories that range over subjects as diverse as road rules for riding, going home again, the horror of realizing that you know a grave robber, and murder in the desert.
- [Twisted Sisters - Modern pulp short stories](https://pxduke.com/twisted-sisters-a-modern-pulp-short-story/) - Detective Jim Nash has a problem. He has a murder victim in an alley and a dead woman in his bed. His own homicide division wants to charge him with murder. To say he’s got serious commitment problems would be an understatement. He's on the lookout for twins, but he doesn't want to date them. He wants to know who murdered them. A modern pulp short story.
- [Midnight at the Oasis](https://pxduke.com/midnight-at-the-oasis-available-at-ibookstore/) - Frank Ross is headed down Mexico way, but first he must escape the high desert and the clutches of a sweet-talking, nimble little thing that has spun her web and led him down the road to good intentions gone bad.
- [Odds and ends](https://pxduke.com/odds-and-ends/) - On one of my forays through Miami I recall hitting the south end around midnight. I was too tired to go any farther, so I checked into the first motel I saw. It seemed like the thing to do at the time, but I was kept up most of the night by the girls parading up and down the street under my ground-floor window.
- [P X Duke interview at Liibook](https://pxduke.com/p-x-duke-interview-at-liibook/) - Some time ago, I put up three short shorts over at Liibook.com. Last month, Jane over at the Liibook blog sent me an email requesting an interview.
- [Startup Blues - Jim Nash #14](https://pxduke.com/startup-blues-jim-nash-14/) - Startup Blues, the 14th short in the Jim Nash series, is up at all of the usual places in the sidebar.
- [Last Stop to Nowhere](https://pxduke.com/last-stop-nowhere/) - Jim Nash is back, and this time he’s bent on revenge for his murdered wife. A drowned hitch-hiker in tow manages to convince him that he should drop everything and help her find her missing brother.
- [Pirate Cay](https://pxduke.com/pirate-cay/) - Retired Detective Jim Nash is headed for a long-awaited vacation in the Florida Keys when he checks his messages and discovers that Allie, an old flame, needs his help. After a brief consult with Zelda, the new woman in his life, Jim heads west to Panama Cay where he becomes embroiled in the rough seas
- [Bad Girls on the right side of the tracks](https://pxduke.com/bad-girls-on-the-right-side-of-the-tracks/) - Frank rides 300 miles out of his way in the dark of night to help an old friend find a lost soul.
- [Read order for Twisted Sisters](https://pxduke.com/read-order-twisted-sisters/) - Twisted Sisters 3 - Marina Mystery consists of the backstory on how Jim Nash and Allie Sands hooked up. The short story came about following a number of queries regarding how the two met. Within Twisted Sisters 3 lies the answer.
- [Just in time for Halloween](https://pxduke.com/just-in-time-for-halloween/) - Here’s one of Jim Nash’s favorite Halloween short reads - Trick or Treat. It’s suitable to read to the little ones over a couple of nights as Halloween approaches.
- [A slacker's lament](https://pxduke.com/a-slackers-lament/) - I had a misspent couple of years (off and on) reconnecting with some bad boys I used to know in another life down Mexico way back in the '70s. This has allowed me to refresh my memories of time spent on the shadier side of all the borders that I know and used to enjoy crossing when I was young, dumb and full of—something or other.
- [Dead Reckoning loglines](https://pxduke.com/loglines/) - During Harry's R&R on mainland Mexico, he picks up something that doesn't belong to him that forces him to cross the Sea of Cortez. While hiding out on an isolated Baja beach, two gringas show up unexpectedly, leading him on a wild chase to rescue his friend from people who want to recover stolen goods.
- [Welcome to writing on the road](https://pxduke.com/welcome-to-writing-on-the-road/) - I pulled off onto the side of the road for a few and created this place. Okay, truth be told, I fell asleep and crossed the center line twice, so I needed to stop and take a break or die trying. I'm still here to talk about it, so it all worked out for the better.

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- [Jim Nash  Read Order](https://pxduke.com/jim-nash-read-order/) - Read order for Jim Nash stories **Jim Nash The Beginning Pirate Cay Thrill Kill Jill Greetings from Key West Lost Paradise No Angels Mexico Gamble No Picnic **Fallen Angels Vendetta A Girl’s Best Friend Dead End No Harbor Dog Days Startup Blues **Last Stop to Nowhere **Revenge Is Justice **Escape **Wedding Bell Blues **Breakdown Little
- [About](https://pxduke.com/about/) - Peter Duke is a Canadian citizen. He resides in a small college town in the Province of Ontario, Canada, where he continues to write about his adventures. + + + Aviator. Fire pilot. Motorcycle rider. Vagabond. Drifter. Trouble-maker. Jack of all trades and master of none. Peter Duke has been riding and writing about the
- [What I'm working on](https://pxduke.com/what-im-working-on/) - Most recently, I've been converting my e-books to Print On Demand, available at Amazon and Ingram Spark. Refer to the sidebar to find out the volumes that are available +++++ With GO-AROUND, the latest saga in the Harry Delaney Adventure series (following Dead Reckoning and Uncharted) finally uploaded, I've begun work on SAND STORM (re-titled
- [Stories too short to mention](https://pxduke.com/stories-too-short-to-mention/) - Here you'll find my short short stories, quick reads all. Marked By Life She was young, maybe early- to mid-twenties at the most. Pretty, too. And with dark hair--my nemesis. I always went for the ones with dark hair. This time, I didn't get a chance. The short read is here. Dead Man's
- [Collections](https://pxduke.com/collections/) - Gun Crazy Volume 1 - Jim Nash Short Story Collection #1, available at all of the platforms on the sidebar at the right, includes the following short stories in the Twisted Sisters series: Twisted Sisters Detective Jim Nash has a problem. He has a murder victim in an alley and a dead woman in his
- [Marked By Life](https://pxduke.com/marked-by-life/) - I STOPPED IN Grand Forks. At least, that's what the sign told me. I had no idea how many miles of four-lane flat-top were behind me. Exhausted as I was, I still knew what day it was. Saturday. I started out before sunup when the early morning air had been cool. As the day wore
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- [Dreams Die Fast](https://pxduke.com/dreams-die-fast/) - It's called the Salton Sea, but it isn’t much of one. At most it's fifty feet deep in places, and more likely thirty feet on average. It's 225 feet below sea level, just five feet higher than Death Valley’s lowest elevation. It must have been quite a sight in 1905 when the Colorado River burst
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