Barry Bowe's Blog, page 78
March 26, 2019
Crime Fiction
January 21, 2019
Press Release for GPB
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 22, 2019
America’s Best Crime Writer Strikes Again
Barry Bowe announces the release of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
America’s Best Crime Writer Barry Bowe is releasing his latest piece of crime fiction – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – the first episode of his Uber Driver series – combining a puzzling murder mystery with a compelling love story.
Folcroft, PA – January 22, 2019 — Ever take a ride in an Uber? Ever wonder about what happens behind the scenes? America’s Be...
Chick Fight Tournament
In case you haven’t noticed, the latest book from America’s Best Crime Writer is now available at Amazon, Kindle, et al. My first Uber Driver tale – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. About a driver who picks up a stripper at a club on Delaware Avenue, transports her home, then goes about his business.
But trouble begins the next day when her nude body’s found in the bathtub, dead of an apparent drug overdose. Since the driver’s the last person seen with her, he becomes what law enforcement now calls...
January 20, 2019
Cast of The Caine
After writing about The Caine Mutiny the other day, wanted to watch it. Only place I could find it online was Amazon Prime. Coulda rented it for, like $2.99, but afraid I’d fall asleep before my rental elapsed. So I bought it for $12-something.
Worth it. Liked it a lot. Better than I remembered from sixty-four years ago.
Although Humphrey Bogart was the star, he wasn’t the Main Character. That designation belongs to Robert Francis – a handsome young man and adequate actor who played rece...
GPB eBook Available
The GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES eBook in Kindle form is now available at – Guess where? – That’s right. At Kindle.
It will be available at Barnes & Noble’s Nook bookstore and the Apple Store on January 25th.
GPB is the first episode of my Uber Driver series. Picture Murder, She Wrote. In other words, an amateur detective thrust into the middle of crime he must solve – but with a parallel love story attached.
The paperback is available at Amazon.
January 18, 2019
The Caine Mutiny
My godmother took me to see The Caine Mutiny at a theater in Wilkes-Barre, PA. The year was 1954 and I was eleven. Might not’ve been born had it not been for Pearl Harbor and World War II. Thus, I was back then, and still am, extremely interested in everything related to that war.
Most of the movie takes place aboard the fictitious U.S.S. Caine, a beat-up destroyer on its last legs near the end of the war. The Navy Department didn’t want Hollywood to make the movie because the ship’s ca...
January 11, 2019
In Cold Blood
On November 15, 1959, the Clutter family was murdered in cold blood in a farmhouse in rural Kansas – mother, father, and two teen-aged children.
I was a junior in high school at the time. This was big news because a random murder like that never happened before, and I paid special attention because the teenagers were around my age.
Recently-paroled ex-cons Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith blew the family away with a sh...
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Here Comes Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Yes, it’s here. The first episode in Barry’s Uber Driver series. The eBook will be available at Apple, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble on January 25th.
The paperback is already available at Amazon – & the Kindle is also available.
August 24, 2018
Making a Move
On the day after Labor Day, America’s Best Crime Writer will join forces with the Crime Pay$ Agency to attempt to get not only a publishing deal, but also a media deal for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Below is the first draft of a promo video … & below that is the new book cover.
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July 21, 2018
Chubby McBride Nailed It
Posted a photo of myself the other day at San Juan airport en route to my first visit to St. Croix, oh, back in 1985, I believe – & my buddy Chubby McBride, aka Gary Mc Bride, a Collingdale High & Naval Academy grad – nailed it when he asked: “Was this the beginning of ‘C. Queen?’”
The “C. Queen” reference is about my first crime-fiction novel Caribbean Queen published a few years back – and available at Amazon & Kindle.
Yes, Chub, although it didn’t manifest until about ten years later, tha...
