Jess Thornton Author

Just released.  ALL of the Jess Thornton private eye cases, in one single, giant, large print book!  Either in kindle or ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NVY888M Or in paperback, if you want a heavy volume to prop open a door: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1797499939 These are all of the Jess Thornton private detective novels, in order, ready to read.  Ready to binge read, which is far more educational that Netflix.  Go for it! And now- for one month only- a discounted price for this book in ebook version on any provider you like, from iBooks to Kobo to Barnes and Nobles and more-  here is the link: https://books2read.com/b/bPZ9Vr

1900 Chicago was a very far cry from the world of territorial Oklahoma indeed!   Rising upwards and in motley congestion on the banks of lake Michigan, it was a crowded, smelly, yet amazing place.   Alexander French just thought of it as home, and wouldn’t have dreamt of living anywhere else.   He worked for Swift and Company, who ran their stockyards on the south side of the city, along with Armour and others.   But he rarely even visited those stockyards, which were horrid abattoirs   of animal killing; hog, beef, and sheep.   He concentrated on numbers, and on profits from those animals, and had a fashionable office downtown, in the first high-rise building in the world- The Home Insurance Building.   It had an amazing 10 stories of height, and he had his office on the top floor! Still a young man, he lived on the fashionable Gold Coast on Chicago’s near north side, in a beautiful stone row house of large proportions.   A dand...

I haven't been keeping this blog updated lately, bad me!  The weather has been frightful, which is normal for January and February in Wisconsin, but I have been writing on a regular basis.  I guess I like writing, singing and playing guitar better than blogging... Anyway, my latest effort is a Western, set in 1900 Oklahoma territory and Chicago.  This was a fascinating time (as most times are), yet this was especially so.  The cowboys and the cattle drives were just starting to be replaced by refrigerated rail cars carrying dressed beef, rather than live cattle to be slaughtered in Chicago in the yards there. I am basing the theme of the book on the Iliad and the Odyssey; this is another mythic time, like the Old West of the US, that constructed archetypes that remain with us of Western Civilization forever.  And I say it again: Western Civilization- no apologies- it is the ultimate achievement, the shining light of the world!  Present deluded politi...