RC
Marlen,
author
of 5 Novels
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RC Marlen's Mysteries involve the on-going family saga of the Bartletts and Scagliones. Each book stands alone and can be read in any order. Neverthless, after reading one, you will want to know more about the mysteries in the Bartlett and Scaglione families. Historical events are woven subtly into the stories and give the reader a feeling of the times.
Tangled
Threads
© - A Family Saga based on real lives
St. Louis, Missouri, 1896 through 2000.
Tangled Threads is a novel based on the lives
of the author's parents. The story covers a century and recreates the
life and love of John and Ellie Bartlett. In a page-turning mystery, RC
Marlen writes about a perplexing aspect of her mother's life that was
solved with the death of her father. The ending will take your breath
away.
A Trilogy
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Contact the author at: rcmarlen@hotmail.com
Sunbird Press
Inside
the Hatboxes ©
In 1932, a fortuitous crime leads to a mystery that forever binds two
families, the Scagliones and Bartletts. Tony Scaglione is a firefighter
and John Bartlett a druggist. Their lives entwine through illnesses, unforgettable
young love, a haunting rape, and an untimely death. Surprises come with
each chapter, building a complex relationship between events, characters,
and emotions.
While a mystery of family ancestry unfolds, pending disaster looms over
the characters. Only the reader knows that the original crime must resurface
from the depths of the past, where the two families have tried to bury
it. And it does!
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The Drugstore
©
During 1955, neighborhoods in St. Louis flooded with change and prejudice
after Brown vs. Board of Education. In the Bartlett family drugstore,
stories unfold of ordinary people's strife, like the fire at Miss Pansy
Dimestore and Mr. Joe's murder. Becky Bartlett, whose father runs the
corner drugstore, wants to help solve these crimes and all the holdups.
Becky and her brothers get caught in a whirlpool of crime on Park Avenue.
After one brutal holdup, Becky flees from Freddie Payne who had tried
to rape her. Soon he starts calling her, and she realizes that he always
knows her whereabouts.
Nothing can stop the demise of the neighborhood, but can Becky outwit
Freddie Payne?
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