Murder at the Flatiron Building
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Guinea West Africa
The mid-day sun is blistering hot, feeling to the peasant miners like it’s burning the skin off their backs as they tortuously pick away at the mountain, one shovelful at a time, searching for diamonds.
In this poor, undeveloped country the slave labor of diamond mining is virtually the only job available. The men of the surrounding villages are forced to work 14-hour days in the unbearable heat for pennies. The mining company, part of a conglomeration of many companies, treats them more like workhorses than human beings.
On this day, one young, native, miner is struggling to stay alive in the suffocating heat. To him, all days are the same, blurring together, never seeming to end.
Tuscany Italy
William and Madeline are returning from a joyously, productive day of painting and reading in the lush
Oft-times referred to as “The City of Michelangelo,”
Frenetic New York City
The blaring sound’s of the city traffic is assaulting my eardrums. As I climb the subway steps, I feel as if I’m being squeezed out of a giant tube of toothpaste, part of an endless stream of humanity oozing up onto the sidewalk at
After my first month of commuting, I’m beginning to settle down and get accustomed to the arduous task of traveling back and forth to art school, in the busiest city in the world. I’m starting to feel a little more secure.
During the first couple of days it was overwhelming. As if a ravenously starved monster was devouring me, physically and emotionally.
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About the Book
“Murder at the Flatiron building,” is a mystery that has its beginnings in Tuscany, Italy and Guinea, West Africa, some 30-years before the mystery takes place in 1954.
Robert Randall, a student at a prestigious New York City art school, that is located in the penthouse of the Flatiron building, experiences a strange, chance meeting that catapults him into a hunt for an unknown killer.
He persuades an old New York City police detective, Frank Breen, to help him track down the killer.
The pursuit takes them to a number of New York’s most interesting places, to confront some of the City’s most fascinating citizens.
The New York City Police Department, the FBI, the Secret Service, and the U.S. Customs Service, all become involved in bringing the murderer to justice.
About the Author
Bob Schmalenberger is a former advertising Creative Director. After finishing art school in New York City, he began his advertising career as an Art Director at BBDO, one of the world’s largest agencies, located on Madison Avenue. He not only art directed hundreds of regional and national TV, radio, and print advertising campaigns, he also wrote many of them.
He is an avid fan of the mystery genre and he says this book began to appear in his brain one day, and he just followed it wherever it took him. He enjoyed writing it so much, he is already well on his way to finishing his next one. He recently had a short story, “Mishap at Montauk,” published in True Story magazine.