Dry Bones

by Robert Fisher

Northern California, 1999. Start with an impoverished college that takes pride in its moral roots. Drop in a freshman who was hazed for no apparent reason. Add the pompous president, a quack Doctor, two hapless deans, the seniors who instigated the forbidden hazing, and an administrative assistant with a mysterious past. Finally, stir to the mixture a soccer coach with her own agenda, rebellious professors, a secretive donation fund, and a police chief who would shoot someone just to see how long it would take them to bleed to death, and you have the ingredients for an explosive story where no one, including our shopworn detective, will get out unscathed.

183 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 11, 2013

About the author

One of the most prolific of sitcom writers, Fisher began in television the 1950s by pairing up with a veteran radio writer twenty-five years his senior named Alan Lipscott. Lipscott and Fisher wrote the first episode of the CBS-TV sitcom series Make Room For Daddy (starring Danny Thomas) in 1953, and went on to craft teleplays for The Donna Reed Show, Bachelor Father (which starred John Forsythe), Bronco, How to Marry a Millionaire, and others. Following Lipscott’s death in 1961, Fisher then began writing with Arthur Marx, and that partnership (which lasted for over twenty-five years) produced episodes of McHale's Navy, My Three Sons, The Mothers-in-Law, the short lived ABC-TV series The Paul Lynde Show, and NBC-TV's Life With Lucy in 1986. He and Marx were also story editors and frequent writers on CBS-TV's Alice from 1977-1981.[1]

Fisher also wrote occasionally with Arthur Alsberg (on I Dream of Jeannie and Mona McCluskey) and had three plays produced on Broadway: the hit The Impossible Years (with Marx), Minnie’s Boys (with Marx), and Happiness Is Just a Little Thing Called a Rolls Royce (with Alsberg), which closed after one performance.

Fisher is also the author of the book "The Knight in Rusty Armor". A beautiful tale of man's journey to discover himself through a series of comic and tragic transformations.

Reviews

[Leann · Rating 2 out of 5]

I noticed that it took me an abnormally long time to finish this book. I thought maybe it was because I have developed a small addiction to candy crush and wasn't taking time to read, but now that I have started another book and can't put it down I am accepting that it was just the fact that the book did not have that something in it that makes you not want to put it down. It was rather hum drum in my opinion. I kept reading because it is written a little like a dragnet episode and the main character keeps making references of something big to come. The problem is he builds it up to be something much bigger than it turns out to be. I think that is part of the disappointment for me. It kind of fell flat even with what I am sure the author wanted to be an explosive ending.