Also by Stephen Gaspar
Stephen Gaspar
The Case of the Empty Tomb is a fast-paced detective story that takes place in 1st Century Jerusalem, where Roman tribune, Claudius Maximus, has been ordered to investigate a rumour relating to a recently crucified Jew who is now missing from his tomb. The investigation leads Maximus through a world of Roman political intrigue, and strange Jewish mysticism, as he encounters suspicious characters, and uncovers conspiracies and plots. The unique aspect of the story is that it is told in the first person and is modelled after the hard-boiled detective novel.

"The author has done an interesting job of combining the hard-boiled detective genre with religious subject matter. The results are very interesting and compelling."


I hated the desert. I hated the heat and the sand and the dust. I hated everything about it.
                                     opening lines,
              The Case of the Empty Tomb
By 1959 Lee Linville is a junkie living on the streets of New York. He has turned away from the life as an investigator for his lawyer friend, William Fullerton, and has embraced the counterculture way of life. Fullerton comes to Lee with a job only he could do. Fullerton wants Lee to find a sixteen-year-old runaway from an affluent family who has also turned to drugs and is lost in the concrete jungle of New York.Lee must fight against his addiction and his personal demons as his search takes him to the subways of Manhattan, the blues clubs of Harlem, the beatnik scene in Greenwich Village, and the rundown tenements of the Lower East Side. Along the way Lee encounters cops, drug dealers, pimps and a colorful assortment of fellow addicts. If this is a simple runaway case, why is someone trying to kill Lee before he can find the missing girl? As well as being a fast-paced detective story, A Piece of Work is a thought-provoking, sometimes moody look at life in 1950s America where the marginalized struggle with life on a daily basis.
Barclay Of The Mounted is the memoir of a young man who, looking for adventure and glory, joins the newly formed North-West Mounted Police in 1874. Henry Barclay, a native of Toronto travels west “to keep the peace and maintain the right of all.” Barclay is an educated young man who quotes everything from Byron to The Bible, and from Shakespeare to Shelley.