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Bahamas West End Is Murder

Dirk Wyle

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Description:AN INTERVIEW WITH DIRK WYLE Rainbow Dirk, we have decided to add some pages to your fifth book in the Ben Candidi Series to give you an opportunity to answer questions on your work. Your first book in the Series, Pharmacology Is Murder published in 1998, validated all of Rainbow's highest expectations, receiving marvelous reviews on a national level. Your subsequent books have shown that you can sustain your high standards and continue to garner high-level reviews. How many Ben Candidi adventures do you think you can produce? Wyle Twenty-one is my desired number. That is the number of Travis McGee novels produced by John D. MacDonald, one of my literary influences and a kindred spirit. Twenty-one is also the number of amino acids necessary for human life.Rainbow Will you have enough time? Wyle I have written the first five books in seven years. I'm 59 years old now. According to the actuarial tables, I should be able to write another 16 books.Rainbow Do you have that many Ben Candidi stories in your head? Wyle Biomedical science generates a host of important projects that can serve as starting points for Ben's mystery-adventures. And let's not forget the contributions of Rebecca Levis (M.D.), Ben's lifetime partner. Her passion for world health broadens Ben's horizons to include the whole world. Witness Amazon Gold, fourth in the Series. It was Rebecca's work with the Yanomama Indians that set the story in motion.Rainbow Are you guaranteeing that Rebecca will be Ben's lifetime partner? Wyle Yes.Rainbow Will they fight, separate, fall prey to drugs or alcohol, and come back together like so many “significant others” in detective fiction? Wyle No, I consider such unromantic subplots to be a failure of imagination on the part of the author. In my opinion, the stale-coffee-and-stinking-cigarette-butt, workaholic, my-spouse-doesn't-understand-me stereotype has dominated detective fiction for much too long. At a national mystery conference that I recently attended, the discussants were still fueling the paradigm that the hero must be flawed and that society numbs the soul. I prefer a more optimistic mindset in my protagonists — at least at the beginning and end of the story. I see no reason to drag readers over cowpats of personal woe. The reader has worked hard for the hour that he or she can spend with me. They deserve better from me.Rainbow Are you saying that Ben and Rebecca are perfectly adjusted? Wyle Ben thinks that Rebecca is a “15.” She has found love with him that is deeper than anything she has experienced before. Their love is strong. But a healthy love is never static. Problems will keep rolling their way. They will continue to be challenged to use imagination, intellect and commitment to work things out. For example, we already know that Rebecca would like Ben to establish himself in a defined career. Ben, on the other hand, seems more inclined to follow the opportunities that present themselves. A constant problem, of which Ben doesn't seem to be aware, is his roving eye. That has gotten him into trouble or misunderstandings in four of his five adventures. Rebecca seems resistant to inappropriate male attention, but a world health mission in another part of the world might prove a more serious seduction. The relationship parts of the stories deal with their attempts to stay tuned in to each other's special qualities. Their “vacation” together in Bahamas West End Is Murder has shown that they can amuse each other with both humor and philosophical shtick. That bodes well for a long-term relationship.Rainbow How did you research Bahamas West End Is Murder? Wyle We sailed from Miami to Grand Bahama Island and then to the Abacos on our Gizmo II several years ago. An observation of a certain watercraft doing a strange thing gave me the idea for the central crime in the book. A couple of summers ago, with the book half-written, we sailed back and spent several days at the marina in West End. We sallied forth on bicycle to meet local people and to pin down geographic detail. We also zipped along the shoreline and over the sponge flats and coral reefs with the hard-bottomed inflatable. Being a novelist is a good excuse to do such things. Seeing with a scientist's eyes adds to the sense of mission. Interestingly, the West End marina and its basin had undergone a radical make-over between our two visits. That fit well with the story where the boaters were worrying about the marina becoming gentrified and expensive. My fictitious boaters were more like the old crowd.Rainbow You are not retracting your disclaimer that any similarity of characters in the story to real people is completely coincidental, are you? Wyle No, the disclaimer stands. And I stand by my claim, made privately, that boating brings out the oddball in people.Rainbow Do you care to elaborate? Wyle Sure. Take a look at the fish fry scene in chapter six of this book.Rainbow What other sorts of field research are you doing for the Series? Wyle...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bahamas West End Is Murder. To get started finding Bahamas West End Is Murder, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIRK WYLE Rainbow Dirk, we have decided to add some pages to your fifth book in the Ben Candidi Series to give you an opportunity to answer questions on your work. Your first book in the Series, Pharmacology Is Murder published in 1998, validated all of Rainbow's highest expectations, receiving marvelous reviews on a national level. Your subsequent books have shown that you can sustain your high standards and continue to garner high-level reviews. How many Ben Candidi adventures do you think you can produce? Wyle Twenty-one is my desired number. That is the number of Travis McGee novels produced by John D. MacDonald, one of my literary influences and a kindred spirit. Twenty-one is also the number of amino acids necessary for human life.Rainbow Will you have enough time? Wyle I have written the first five books in seven years. I'm 59 years old now. According to the actuarial tables, I should be able to write another 16 books.Rainbow Do you have that many Ben Candidi stories in your head? Wyle Biomedical science generates a host of important projects that can serve as starting points for Ben's mystery-adventures. And let's not forget the contributions of Rebecca Levis (M.D.), Ben's lifetime partner. Her passion for world health broadens Ben's horizons to include the whole world. Witness Amazon Gold, fourth in the Series. It was Rebecca's work with the Yanomama Indians that set the story in motion.Rainbow Are you guaranteeing that Rebecca will be Ben's lifetime partner? Wyle Yes.Rainbow Will they fight, separate, fall prey to drugs or alcohol, and come back together like so many “significant others” in detective fiction? Wyle No, I consider such unromantic subplots to be a failure of imagination on the part of the author. In my opinion, the stale-coffee-and-stinking-cigarette-butt, workaholic, my-spouse-doesn't-understand-me stereotype has dominated detective fiction for much too long. At a national mystery conference that I recently attended, the discussants were still fueling the paradigm that the hero must be flawed and that society numbs the soul. I prefer a more optimistic mindset in my protagonists — at least at the beginning and end of the story. I see no reason to drag readers over cowpats of personal woe. The reader has worked hard for the hour that he or she can spend with me. They deserve better from me.Rainbow Are you saying that Ben and Rebecca are perfectly adjusted? Wyle Ben thinks that Rebecca is a “15.” She has found love with him that is deeper than anything she has experienced before. Their love is strong. But a healthy love is never static. Problems will keep rolling their way. They will continue to be challenged to use imagination, intellect and commitment to work things out. For example, we already know that Rebecca would like Ben to establish himself in a defined career. Ben, on the other hand, seems more inclined to follow the opportunities that present themselves. A constant problem, of which Ben doesn't seem to be aware, is his roving eye. That has gotten him into trouble or misunderstandings in four of his five adventures. Rebecca seems resistant to inappropriate male attention, but a world health mission in another part of the world might prove a more serious seduction. The relationship parts of the stories deal with their attempts to stay tuned in to each other's special qualities. Their “vacation” together in Bahamas West End Is Murder has shown that they can amuse each other with both humor and philosophical shtick. That bodes well for a long-term relationship.Rainbow How did you research Bahamas West End Is Murder? Wyle We sailed from Miami to Grand Bahama Island and then to the Abacos on our Gizmo II several years ago. An observation of a certain watercraft doing a strange thing gave me the idea for the central crime in the book. A couple of summers ago, with the book half-written, we sailed back and spent several days at the marina in West End. We sallied forth on bicycle to meet local people and to pin down geographic detail. We also zipped along the shoreline and over the sponge flats and coral reefs with the hard-bottomed inflatable. Being a novelist is a good excuse to do such things. Seeing with a scientist's eyes adds to the sense of mission. Interestingly, the West End marina and its basin had undergone a radical make-over between our two visits. That fit well with the story where the boaters were worrying about the marina becoming gentrified and expensive. My fictitious boaters were more like the old crowd.Rainbow You are not retracting your disclaimer that any similarity of characters in the story to real people is completely coincidental, are you? Wyle No, the disclaimer stands. And I stand by my claim, made privately, that boating brings out the oddball in people.Rainbow Do you care to elaborate? Wyle Sure. Take a look at the fish fry scene in chapter six of this book.Rainbow What other sorts of field research are you doing for the Series? Wyle...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bahamas West End Is Murder. To get started finding Bahamas West End Is Murder, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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