October 2024 - now available!

Ted's second novel, titled Shadow Beneath The Bluffs, is available on all major platforms including Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and many more.  This historically accurate, mystery thriller, will appeal to fans of famed detective Sherlock Holmes.

1895 map of Kansas City's "West Bottoms".

A DETECTIVE ON A REDEMPTIVE QUEST.

A KILLER ON A VENGEFUL RAMPAGE.

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Kansas City - 1893

On the cusp of the 20th century, as Kansas City transforms from a lawless frontier boomtown into a burgeoning metropolis called the “Paris of the Plains”, the city's future hangs in the balance. A ruthless killer stalks the streets taking revenge against the mayor's temperance crusade to rid the town of poverty, pollution, and promiscuity. 

With the city’s reputation on the line, Inquiry Agent Algernon Crisp is thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse. In a race against time to catch a brutal killer who prowls the shadowy, vice-ridden underworld of Kansas City’s notorious West Bottoms, Crisp must navigate a treacherous web of political corruption and outsmart Big City Boss Jim Pendergast and his cronies who rule the district through brute force and calculated deception.

The stakes couldn’t be higher—will Crisp bring justice, or will he be lost in the city’s shadowy maze of crime and betrayal.

Algernon Crisp's trusted comrades: