Golden Rule Days

About the Book

Superintendent of Middlefield Schools, Colin Winslow, suffers an allergic reaction while driving home from a school board meeting. He uses an epinephrine injector device he is testing for his inventor friend, John Burns, but to no avail. Winslow collapses and dies as his car smashes the railroad crossing gates and collides with a train.

New York detective Rick Canyon is rousted out of bed by Roger Greenfield to go to the accident scene at the request of Winslow's wife, Alex.

Coroner Bill Crandell's autopsy shows that chocolate milk Winslow had been drinking was laced with penicillin, to which Winslow was highly allergic.

Glen Abner, the school district's treasurer, is arrested. He gave Winslow the milk. His motive: Winslow accused him of embezzling school funds, which Abner admitted to but did not want such degrading and embarrassing information to become public and destroy his career.

Canyon discovers that a paranoid Winslow had secretly taped all his conversations with school officials. Canyon's pregnant wife, Maddie, uses technology supplied by computer expert, Dan Hennigan, to decode the tapes to create a list of murder suspects. Canyon discovers Winslow's tell-all memoirs of twisted dealings from various school systems in which he had previously served as superintendent that ultimately revealed additional suspicious characters.

About the Author

Paul Murphy is a retired educator. The father of three grown children he live in Maumee, Ohio with his wife, Shirley. He graduated from The Ohio State University in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science Degree. He then obtained this Masters in Education from Bowling Green State University in 1970. Mr Murphy possesses more than thirty years experience in public education as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal culminating with sixteen years as superintendent of schools in several communities. He is skilled in commencement speeches, news articles, and grant writing. He has also written, produced and directed videos regarding safety in athletics and school bus riding procedures, as well as school boardmanship videos.

After writing his first book, The 13th Apostle, he switched from the Christian genre to the mystery/detective category with Time in the Mirror and Golden Rule Days. Having two medical doctor brothers, a neuropsychologist sister-in-law and several psychologist and psychiatrist friends, Mr. Murphy enjoys blending their medical and psychiatric knowledge into mystery novels. He has several successful attorney friends/advisors, as well a private investigator friend who owns his own intelligence firm. He couples their legal expertise and investigative practices to not only defend those who are not the actual killers, but to find the actual culprit with endings that hold the readers attention.

He is presently working on a sequel to The 13th Apostle and another novel of intirgue, murder and espionage.