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Hometown:: Los Angeles, California

About Me:: After spending over a quarter of a century in the computer business, I am now pursuing my first love--writing, especially mysteries. My mystery novels include:
FORGET TO REMEMBER--an amnesia mystery. Carol Golden isn't her real name. She doesn't remember her real name or anything that happened before she was found, naked and unconscious, on the beautiful Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California.
RUN INTO TROUBLE--a footrace along the California coast in 1969 during the Cold War. But is the Cold War about to heat up? Winner Silver Quill award from the American Authors Association and named best Pacific West book by Reader Views.
HONEYMOON FOR THREE--suspense takes a thrill ride. Winner Silver Quill award from the American Author's Association and Reader Views award for best Mountain West book.
THE HAYLOFT: a 1950s mystery--bobby sox, slow dancing, bomb shelters, the communist conspiracy, and murder
HOTLINE TO MURDER--is the voice on the line that of a killer?
CATCH A FALLING KNIFE--sexual harassment, a stripper, murder in a college town.
THIRTEEN DIAMONDS--an unbelievable bridge hand, but you've got to survive to play it.
ACES AND KNAVES--gambling, murder and other hijinks in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

I Am A:: Reader, Writer

Website:: http://alancook.50megs.com

Books And Authors I Like:: Ray Bradbury, Denise Hamilton, Robert Crais, Sue Grafton, Tony Hillerman, Sir Walter Scott
The Horatio Hornblower books, by C.S. Forester, books about spying, such as BETWEEN SILK and CYANIDE, by Leo Marks

Movies And TV Shows I Like:: TV--Veronica Mars, The Medium, Buffy
My all-time favorite is MASH.
Movies--The Coca Cola Kid, A Little Romance, Shakespeare in Love, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Mrs. Henderson Presents

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Amazon Kindle Books Downloadable to iPod and iPhone

I'm glad to see that Amazon has made Kindle books compatible with iPod and iPhone because 7 of my books are on Kindle. This opens them up to a whole new world. On the other hand, I still like to read real books. It takes all kinds.

Posted on March 12, 2009 at 8:16am

HONEYMOON FOR THREE wins Readers Choice Award

Honeymoon for Three has won the Readers Choice award for best Mountain West book. See the logo among my pictures.

Posted on March 25, 2008 at 7:36am

Award for HONEYMOON FOR THREE

The American Author's Association has announced that my mystery, HONEYMOON FOR THREE, has won a Silver Quill award. Each year the Association recognizes members' works that demonstrate excellence in their field. That brightened up my day.

Posted on November 6, 2007 at 12:15pm

MOON OVER MURDER on Amazon Shorts

My short story, MOON OVER MURDER, is live on Amazon Shorts. It is downloadable for only 49 cents at

http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Over-Murder/dp/B000WH7DNI/ref=dp_shrt_new_0/105-6270387-5936403

Such a deal!

A teenage boy in the 1950s gets a dream summer job working in a restaurant beside a lake, owned by his aunt and uncle. It doesn't hurt that three pretty female…

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Posted on October 6, 2007 at 11:00am

Mystery Limericks

I started writing limericks in high school. That was before I got into trouble for publishing a high school look-alike of the 1950s Confidential magazine (a fictional version of the story appears in my mystery novel, The Hayloft). I no longer write scandal sheets, but I do still write limericks. Here are some of my mystery limericks:

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