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Archie's Gold

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E. R. Yatscoff

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“A spellbinding juvenile mystery novel that is sheer magic. I hope this marks the beginning of a long and mutually beneficial relationship.” - Michele Rooney Literary Agency

Twelve year old Archie Crane has a dream to be reunited with his estranged father. Shining shoes in front of a hotel in a tough blue-collar town is the only way, but it'll take a lot of nickels and dimes for a bus ticket to join him. Shining shoes is his first job and it's not easy fending off drunks and cheats. Archie has developed a tough exterior working the streets, but inside he’s just a lonely kid who seeks his father’s love. Archie doesn’t like his school and the kids at school don’t like him. His only friends are an old ex-vaudeville entertainer, Freddie Fox, a secretive Indian, Lyle Raintree, and Ma Belasky, a mysterious gypsy woman who runs the local café, a hangout for ex-cons and riff-raff. The mean streets get a whole lot meaner when Boogy, a rink rat and bully, is determined to wrest the shoe-shine spot away from Archie by any means. After Boogy pushes him into traffic, Archie awakens in the hospital with two detectives at his bedside, very curious as to how a stolen gold coin ended up in his money can. One stolen gold coin is a curiosity, but when Archie stumbles upon 42 of them, his simple world is turned upside down. The two cops catch gold fever, determined to find all the coins for themselves. Caught between holding stolen items and finding a trustworthy person to turn the gold into cash for Archie proves to be fraught with danger. As the walls begin to tumble and the police close in, Archie's hope of rejoining his father may only be a dream.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:-
Born in Welland, Ontario, a blue-collar town in the Niagara Peninsula. Backpacked the world and lived in Australia.

I've had a lot of jobs over the years: paperboy, grocery clerk, sales rep, iron worker, framer, painter, mink ranch hand, assembly line rubber plant worker, framer, freelance astronaut, furniture mover, boilermaker apprentice, various sales jobs, delivery driver, electrician's assistant, big band drummer,and career firefighter and officer. I've driven and operated fire pumps and aerial ladders, worked the rescue unit. Firefighters in Canada deal with extreme weather making the job very challenging. I've extricated people from crashed vehicles, hauled them from house fires, treated the injured, and done some stuff that still makes me shake my head. We don't give medals of valor to each other because we don't encourage lone-wolf/hero types like the Americans. It's why their death rate on the job is higher than ours. 
I left Edmonton Fire Rescue as a station captain after 32 years before I got too banged up like a lot of the other guys with 30+ years on. I live in Beaumont, AB with my wonderful wife, Gloria. I write, travel, do a bit of fishing and boating, drink demon rum, manage a writers group, do occasional reno work, and sit on my butt outside in the good weather reading a decent book/eBook. Gloria and I travel extensively. We spent the cold 2011 winter in SE Asia where I climbed the Jinshanling section of the Great Wall of China. I still have a few novels to post online and have my 3rd firefighter novel Final Response sent to Bookus Publishing who will handle my marketing from now on. I figure this book should be available before the end of 2012.


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