Joseph Duncan

Lair of the Luciferians Joseph Duncan

Publisher Marketing: The Two-Fisted Private Dick is Back! It's been two years since private investigator Dixon Peters saved the world from the Elder God Hellmouth. He's got a fancy new office uptown, a cute new secretary and more work than he can shake a stick at. So when millionaire industrialist Franklin G. Bumgarden III asks him to find his runaway children, Dix almost turns down the case. But Dix can't resist a puzzle, and the mystery of the missing Bumgarden kids looks like a real doozy. Within 24 hours of accepting the assignment, Dix finds himself knee-deep in ensorcelled housewives, lycanthropic assassins and demonic spies. In fact, everyone seems to know who he is and what he's looking for. A Change of Face! The only way he's going to solve this mystery, Dix quickly realizes, is to go undercover. Deep undercover. Lucky thing his best friend Ratty is a shape-shifter! With new faces and fake identities, Dix and his secretary-cum-girlfriend set off to find the Bumgarden kids... and just maybe, he hopes, unravel the mystery of the enigmatic Luciferians -- before something really bad happens! Lair of the Luciferians is an action-packed detective novel, a tongue-in-cheek homage to the hard boiled tales of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, featuring one of the most unique private dicks ever created, the supernatural shamus Dixon Peters. Reader raves for Menace of Club Mephistopheles: "An absolutely enjoyable read... for anyone who enjoys supernatural mysteries, or just plain weird fiction, I recommend giving it a try...". "An interesting mix of myth, magic and gumshoe detective. Starts right into the action and never lets up...". "I had been dragging my feet on buying this book because of the genre... not usually my type of story... what a mistake!..". "Not one for detective novels, I fell into this read as easy as watching Bogart and Bacall dance around a scene. Has tongue-in-cheek humor, sex (twisted), violence, and a taste of Mike Hammer... all blended into a H. P. Lovecraft nightmare - a nightmare complete with Apocalyptic visions and dramatic solutions...". "Very interesting take on the whole private eye genre. Loved the 1920's setting with the hard boiled PI and his slimy cohorts. Great stuff. Throw in a little HP Lovecraft for good measure, maybe spice it up with some magic and bam....instant fun." Contributor Bio:  Duncan, Joseph Author Joseph Duncan was born and raised in Southern Illinois. He spent his idyllic childhood running wild through the wooded highlands of the beautiful Illinois Ozarks, a veritable "lost boy.".. a hillbilly heathen, if you will. Despite his rural upbringing, Joe's home environment was very creative and liberal. His mother was an avid reader and his father was a talented amateur artist. From an early age, he was exposed to a vast world of science fiction and fantasy literature, art, comic books and movies. He was particularly influenced by the classic underground comic book scene of the sixties and seventies, titles like the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and the works of Robert Crumb and Richard Corben, as well as European graphic albums by artists like Moebius, Enki Bilal and Milo Manara. By age 9, he was reading Tolkien and Stephen King. He wrote his first novella at age 10, a story called "Scratch," which featured a telekinetic cat trying to protect its mistress from a bloodthirsty serial killer. In his salad days, Joe tried his hand at art, and landed a few gigs penciling underground horror comics, but his comic book career never really took off, and he was artistically sidetracked by opening a business and starting a family. Fast forward through the everyday ups and downs of family life and business and... In 2009, the first e-readers began to appear on the market, and Joe realized he could bypass the gatekeepers of traditional publishing and get his creative efforts out to the public. He immediately began writing his first novel, The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All. The indie novel was a surprising success, allowing Joe to close down his business and devote himself full time to writing. He followed Oldest Living Vampire with an occult detective novel and a zombie/vampire mashup, and the rest, as they say, is history. If you'd like to contact Mr. Duncan, you may do so at cobraebooks@gmail.com. You can also "friend" him on Facebook, or visit his (sporadically updated) blog Red Ramblings.