When Wisconsin veterinarian Doc dies, his family learns that to inherit his fortune, they must decipher the cryptic codicil he added to his will---"Take Doofus squirrel-fishing"---and they can only do that by talking to Doc's friends, reading the memoir Doc wrote of a Christmas season decades earlier, searching through Doc's c... orrespondence, and discovering clues around them. Humor abounds as this mismatched lot tries to find time in their hectic lives to work together to solve the puzzle. In the end, will they realize that fortune comes in many guises? "Doc's Codicil" is a mystery told with abundant humor. It tells the story of a veterinarian who teaches his heirs a lesson from the grave.read more
BIOGRAPHY Sometimes my life seems like a testament to bad judgment and wishful thinking. My wife of 46 years said she didn't know of anything in my record to justify such unfettered optimism.
I worked in a large animal veterinary practices in small Wisconsin towns for 19 years before I returned to grad school where I... earned a Ph.D. in microbiology. For the next 19 years, I worked in the research and development of bovine and swine vaccines until I retired in 2012. Since then I've written drivel disguised as novels.read more