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Harper is at the scene. . . .

Along dusty country lanes, muddy capital city streets, rail lines and stage routes across late-19th-century South Carolina, the indomitable, eccentric crime reporter for the fledgling Columbia Challenge makes his way through a bizarre assortment of mysteries and intrigues. Are there embezzlement schemes in the wind? Buried secrets? Escaped convicts? Strange apparitions? Desperate brigands? Harper is on the scent, pen in his hand, pipe in his mouth, Bible in his correspondent’s satchel.

Daniel Elton Harmon’s The Chalk Town Train & Other Tales, the first volume in “The Harper Chronicles” short story series, was published in October 2001 by Trafford Publishing. Click the book cover for a list of stories, a savory sampler, press comments and other information.

Rose T. Wilkins, book columnist for Sandlapper Magazine, calls the Harper tales “fascinating stories of adventure . . . a trip back in time that is hard to put down.” Jerry Bellune of The Lexington County Chronicle rates them as “page turners that possess the tone and color and drama of literature.”

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From the Chronicler's Personal News Desk

"VINTAGE SHORT MYSTERY CLASSICS": A series of some of my favorite short stories by literary greats now can be downloaded in e-book format—free! You'll find stories of crime, intrigue and the macabre by authors including Tolstoi, Edwards, Poe, Bierce, Dickens and many others. New e-booklets are being added each month. These are classic stories of old, now in the public domain. Retrieve them at "Vintage Short Mystery Classics."

MYSTERY WRITING SECRETS: "Good Old Index," Daniel Elton Harmon's research tips for historical mystery writers, has been published online in Rosalie Stafford's Web Mystery Magazine.

PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE: Harmon's Men of the Bible, reprinted several times since its original 1997 release, is being merged with Colleen Reece' Women of the Bible and Julie Reece-DeMarco's Children of the Bible into a single volume titled 128 of the Greatest Stories From the Bible. Coming in June 2005 from Barbour Publishing (www.barbourbooks.com).

INTRIGUING BIBLE FACTS: Harmon's Bible quiz book has been published by CrossAmerica Books (www.crossings.com). BibleChallenge: Small Facts From the Big Book contains more than 100 categorized quiz sets.

BEST-SELLING HUMOR: Of the four "Great Clean Jokes" volumes Harmon wrote in the 1990s for Barbour Publishing (www.barbourbooks.com), the original Great Clean Jokes for Kids remains in print. It's one of three "kid-tested, parent-approved best-sellers" described in Barbour's Spring 2005 "Children's & Youth Catalog." More than 125,000 copies of the book reportedly have been sold.

HISTORICAL SLEUTHING: The author's magazette of historical oddities, Blithering Antiquity, is online. The quarterly e-mag is free—and fun!

READ ALL ABOUT 'IM: Aïda Rogers' feature on "Harper" and the author appeared in the Winter 2002-03 issue of Sandlapper: The Magazine of South Carolina. If your computer has Acrobat Reader installed, you can download and read/print the piece immediately by clicking right here.

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