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After the Peruvian consul in Miami hires PI Buck Jaspers to locate the mummies and return them to Peru, he sets out to find Mishioki and the treasure. Using all the operatives at his disposal, Buck narrows the hunt to the Orlando area and shares evidence with an ICE agent on the same trail. After Buck learns that Mishioki loves sports car racing, eating Peruvian food, and chasing young women, he stakes out restaurants and nightclubs, poses as a racecar driver, and investigates reclusive billionaires—the only ones who can afford to keep the mummies in good condition. In order to inspect the estates of possible suspects, Buck employs a swamp rat to take Buck and his crew through the wetlands on an airboat. But just as he gets closer to the mummies and Mishioki, Buck’s operatives reveal a disturbing reality of the person behind the theft.
In this exciting mystery, the chase is on for PI Buck Jaspers after an anthropologist steals mummies from Peru and brings them to Florida.
Product Details
- Publisher : Iuniverse Inc (January 18, 2021)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 94 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1663214921
- ISBN-13 : 978-1663214928
- Item Weight : 11 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.38 x 9 inches
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NAME: Jerry C. Blanton
TITLE OF BOOK: Legacy Artifacts: First of the Warm World Mysteries
www.jerrycblanton.com or www.authorjerrycblanton.com
Tell your readers a little about yourself, where you grew
up, where you live now, where you went to school etc. Let them get to know the
personal you.
I was raised in the United States Air Force, living
primarily in Western states: Arizona; Spokane, Washington; Riverside, Southern
California; Nagoya, Japan; Livermore, Northern California; Cheyenne, Wyoming;
Livingston, Alabama; and finally, Florida where I have lived ever since I
arrived here at 15 years old. Now I live in Homestead, Florida, an agricultural
town that is fast becoming a suburb of Miami.
I graduated from Eau Gallie High School, Eau Gallie, Florida
(1964). I have a B.A. in English (minor in education) from Florida State
University (1968); an M.A. in English (minor in theater including nine hours of
credits from Western New Mexico University where I directed a production of The
Glass Menagerie) from Florida Atlantic University (1977); took six hours in
art at Lee County Community College; a Certificate of Teacher Supervision (nine
graduate credit hours) from the University of Miami (1978); completed 36 hours
toward a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Florida International University.
Took Intermediate Conversational Spanish from University of Miami.
I have been married twice and divorced twice. I have three
children from the marriages. All have successful careers (attorney,
anthropologist, cyber security expert) and are now middle-aged.
What inspired you to author your book?
It began as
another Buck Jaspers mystery of which I have published 14, but I soon realized
that this one was different because it had elements of global warming and
globalization involved in the mystery. And I had other ideas along that line,
and I have already written rough drafts of the second and third warm world
mysteries. I feel that anything I can do to educate people about global warming
is worthwhile even if in the form of entertainment.
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Where did you get the inspiration for your book’s cover?
As the major suspect remains hidden, Buck sends operatives to Egypt to find out
if two known mummy dealers are trying to get one of the recently discovered
mummies there. Since the mystery involves both Andean mummies and Egyptian
mummies, I thought the cover should display one of each. And mummies seem to
automatically suggest mystery.
Who has been the most significant influence on you personally and as a writer?
William Faulkner had a kind of reverse influence. I have
read most of his books and studied them in college courses. As much as I admire
his complex narrations and multiple narrators, I knew most people will never
read one of his books. So, I decided I would keep my books simpler to appeal to
a wider audience. But I would try to make my characters as lifelike as
Faulkner’s are. Mark Twain also had a great influence on me, especially Huckleberry
Finn, so I resolved to always tell the truth as I saw it.
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What were your struggles or obstacles you had to overcome to get this book written? I had to learn enough about Peru and the Incas to make the book realistic, so research was involved.
Tell your readers about your book.
Buck is set to solve
the mystery of the stolen mummies after the Peruvian Consul hires his firm to
find the mummies and bring them back to Peru. His only target is a Peruvian
anthropologist Sergio Mishioki who has stolen the mummies and brought them to
Florida. Using what he knows about Sergio Mishioki and working with an ICE
agent, Buck narrows his search and puts out a net that will catch the thief and
reveal the billionaire collector for whom Sergio works.
Who is your target audience, and why?
My target
audience is anyone who loves a mystery and has concerns or doubts about global
warming and globalization.
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If you were going to give one reason for anyone looking at your book to read, why should they buy it?
They will enjoy it and be inspired by it.
What do you consider your greatest success in life?
I
keep striving, for I may not have achieved it yet.
What one unique thing sets you apart from other writers
in your genre? My global view.
How do you overcome writer’s block?
I have never had
writer’s block. My imagination is so fertile that ideas keep pouring forth. If
anything, I have had times in which in the middle of one project, I am inspired
to start another one, and return to the first after an interruption.
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What one piece of advice do you have for new authors.
If you are inspired to write, do it and keep at it. If you are honest with
yourself, you will improve.
Tell your readers anything else you want to share.
I
want to entertain, first. After that I hope I have inspired you to think about
the world in a different way.
