The author wrote the ambitious boys a kind rejection letter that encouraged them to keep reading and writing books.Īnd that Jeffrey Eaton did. Seuss offering to help the renowned author create his next book, a book Eaton had already given the title, “There’s A Moose on the Loose on the Chickanoose Trail.”

In first grade he and an artistic classmate wrote a letter to Dr. During the filming, his father cavorted on the set with the soon-to-be-discovered actor Van Johnson, and his mother chatted off the set with the soon-to-become famous Lucille Ball.Įaton was raised in Kansas. Jeffrey Eaton was born to parents who met in Los Angeles, where his father was dancing in the 1940 movie musical, “Too Many Girls”.

Murder Becomes Manhattan is a moody, compelling mystery that provides fascinating stories about the city’s iconic architecture, jaw-dropping plot-twists that will keep readers guessing and a heart-pounding conclusion that will have readers riveted to the final sentence. The killer has been within their sight the entire time…and now has one of Lee’s colleagues within the crosshairs. And the more people they interview, the more suspects they expose.īut just when the team is about to give up hope, Lee and his team weave together several threads of evidence that reveal the terrifying reason the woman was executed and the identity of her assailant. Now that the group is intensifying its insurrection, the authorities recruit Lee to assist them again, knowing he and his associates all now have a personal motive for finding the killer.Ī peculiar doorknob, a devious clergyman, a mysterious loft and more than one case of mistaken identity complicate the team’s efforts to determine just who murdered the socialite and why. While studying at Cambridge many years ago, Lee helped bring the anarchists to their knees when he deduced who among their ranks had assassinated a congresswoman. The note confirms a sinister cult subdued many years ago is ramping up its crusade to crush the free world from within.Įnter Dalton Lee, head of The Lee Group, one of the world’s premier architectural firms. The young woman’s murder sets the authorities on edge, but their sentiment shifts from concern to alarm when they spot a familiar calling card on her corpse. A socialite is found strangled to death in an abandoned storage closet deep within one of Manhattan’s grand hotels.

Murder Becomes Miami by Jeffrey Eaton