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I am a retired IT executive who has written numerous white papers and delivered presentations for national and regional IT conferences. Upon retirement I spent 3000+ hours researching the contributions graduates from Indiana's high schools have made to basketball and published "Why Indiana is the Center of the Basketball World" in 2014.
I began the Abbe Brent series 30 years ago but had to delay writing them when I became a single parent of four wonderful kids. During this time I jotted down plot lines, characters, jokes, discussions, et al, that I will use in the series.
Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite
The Logic of Murder: What a Difference a Day Makes: My Life with Universe, Book 1 by Michael Ludlow is an historical mystery set in the 1960s. GP Walker was at a crossroads in his life, and he wasn't quite ready to make a decision. He had recently graduated from a prestigious college with a degree in philosophy. Working for his father's firm as an intern before going to law school might end up being his choice; either that, or teaching or going to grad school. Fortunately for him, a friend invited him to share his housing in Seattle, which allowed him to defer that decision. Unfortunately, the housing became unavailable almost as soon as he got there. GP decided to make a go of living on his own and started looking for a job. The help-wanted ad which caught his eye was for a research assistant to a private eye. He could fulfill all the requirements listed and was especially intrigued by the need to understand the fundamentals of logic. The ad was posted by Dr. Jeremy Todd, PhD, and GP was somewhat flustered speaking with the abrupt and imposing voice on the other end of the phone. He did get the interview, and later was hired on. And before he knew it, he was involved in a murder investigation that would change his life forever.
Michael Ludlow's historical mystery, The Logic of Murder: What a Difference a Day Makes, follows GP as he assists a wealthy and eccentric private investigator who channels Sherlock Holmes. His arch enemy, Abbe Brent, happens to think the world's greatest detective lives in New York City, is fat, and has his assistant do all the running for him. With a Holmes-inspired detective competing against a Nero Wolf admirer, you can't help but expect that sparks are going to fly as the two very different masters of the art of detecting are retained and have to work together on a high profile murder case -- and they do. I'm a big fan of both Holmes and Wolf, and had a marvelous time watching as Brent and Todd work to solve the murder of a wealthy widow. Add in a very tasty collection of the best of 1960s music running throughout the story, and you have the recipe for a thought-provoking and highly entertaining mystery novel with plenty of red herrings to consider and two markedly different detectives to follow. The Logic of Murder: What a Difference a Day Makes is most highly recommended.
