LOST CREEK BOOKS
La Pine, Oregon
presents
Wesley Murphey’s
outdoor non-fiction books and suspense-thriller fiction books—
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Nonfiction: Outdoors
A classic. Refreshingly candid, revised and expanded, still the only true adventure account ever written on hunting the Pacific Coast’s blacktail deer. Join Wes Murphey as he pursues the elusive blacktail deer. Regardless of which species of deer you hunt, whether you are a beginner or expert, you will learn from and enjoy Wes's blacktail deer hunting adventures. Laced throughout the many years of blacktail hunting adventures are numerous tactics, tips and great information on blacktail habits and habitat. Also includes chapters on the effects of hunter scent and noise on deer behavior, along with other interesting topics. Very well illustrated. (194 pages, 65 illustrations)
“Anyone who has ever hunted blacktail deer can relate to this book and can gain some good hunting lore from reading it.” -- Boyd Iverson author of Blacktail Trophy Tactics and BTT II
Trouble at Puma Creek: A Vietnam Vet, A Deadly Hunt $14.95
While hunting deer in Oregon’s Fall Creek Forest in 1980, Vietnam veteran Roger Bruington is murdered by an Oregon State Police officer after discovering a suspicious shack. Did finding the shack get him killed? Or was this a government hit because Bruington was finally going to reveal the U.S. Government’s cover up of the evidence he turned over in 1974 proving American POWs were still being held captive in southeast Asia a year after all POWs were supposedly released? How will detective Jim Dowdy, a Korean War veteran, solve the case? When more bodies turn up at Puma Creek in the summer of 1981, Dowdy is determined to bring the killer or killers to justice. But he underestimates who he is up against.
(338 pages)
"An excellent work of crime fiction." said a retired U.S. Army general who did two tours in Vietnam and later served in the defense intelligence agency. " But I can't support the idea of a government coverup or conspiracy of the Vietnam P.O.W. issue."
A Homeless Man’s Burden $14.95
In his sleeping bag on the bank of the McKenzie River, aged and homeless Sam Hostick is dying alone when modern-day fur trapper Shane Coleman pulls up in his drift boat - just in time for Sam to unload the terrible secret he has carried for fifty years. As Sam begins telling his story, Shane is stunned to learn that Sam knew Shane's now-deceased father, and that the secret concerns the murder of a little girl in 1960. But Sam dies before he can answer Shane's many questions about his father and the crime. Taking Sam's burden that is now his, Shane hooks up with short-fused, sarcastic, ex-cop, private-investigator Hodge Gilbert to solve the case. What they discover, and who dies along the way, shocks them and many others in the peaceful Lost Creek Valley community.
Based on the actual still-unsolved 1960 bean-field murder of little Alice Lee near Pleasant Hill and Dexter, Oregon. Wesley Murphey picked in that very field for many years and, as a teen, worked with Alice’s father. Murphey’s father was Alice’s school bus driver and the mail carrier in the area for 25 years. This somewhat autobiographical thriller will keep you turning pages from start to finish. (302 pages)
See author interview in this website's: Writings section.
Girl Too Popular $10.95
Being the most popular girl in town is not all it’s cracked up to be—just ask Carly Cantwell. After making the winning basket in her Roseburg High girls basketball game, Carly is kidnapped to a remote location in the forest. Now she gets more attention than she ever dreamed. Will Carly survive to ever play another basketball game? Will she ever see her friends or boy friend again? Is her abductor somehow connected to her ex-stepfather who she rejected? Or is someone or something greater at work here? (178 pages) Inspirational suspense.
Mother in Law problems? Dan Thurmond has a ton of them. When Dan married Brenda, he got more than he bargained for. He got Maureen Muldano, the mother in law from hell. With his marriage on the rocks, and shut out by his wife’s restraining order, Dan can't take anymore. Now his hypocritical, pseudo-spiritual, controlling mother-in-law and other wolves in her family are going to reap what they sowed. Unlike any book you've ever read, this story deals with difficult family issues. Warning: Contains some violent themes. (302 pages)
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