Collected Dick Sleuth Mysteries - Tasmania's No. 1 Detective

by Paul Morrison

The DICK SLEUTH detective story collection is set in Tasmania and brings to life a most original detective whose unorthodox and bizarre actions leads to impressive (and often lucky) results. Just who is Dick Sleuth? In the 34 stories in this bumper collection, the reader will find out just how tough and how good Dick really is. Just who is Dick Sleuth? Don’t let the name fool you. His real name is Eddie Morrison and he is my cousin. He is also a private detective. Eddie, or as he prefers to be known, Dick has been a private investigator for nearly twenty five years – not bad for an over-weight and balding man of fifty five.

I don’t know how many cases he has solved in that time, but he must have solved a few because the detective business is very blackmail cases, fraud, adultery, missing persons, and of course murder. I once asked him why he used the name Dick Sleuth and Eddie’s simple reply was, “I’m not a tough guy but the name sounds tough, just like the private detective in those 1940s Humphrey Bogart movies, The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep.” Of course, any similarity between Eddie and Humphrey Bogart is not only coincidental, but is completely non-existent.

487 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 13, 2013

About the author

Paul Morrison, a retired museologist has been a writer for most of his life. “I cannot remember a time when I was not writing, even when I was five or six years old. I grew up on books such as TREASURE ISLAND, 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA and THE TIME MACHINE — these and many other books that I read in my early years fed my imagination, a voracious imagination transporting me to faraway places, other worlds and to other times in both the recent and more distant past...” Many of these worlds and places are visited in the novels and short story collections he has written.

Besides a love of fiction, Paul also reads widely on ancient history and archaeology. “I am particularly interested in Ancient Egypt, mainly Old Kingdom Egypt during the age of the pyramid builders. I have always been intrigued as to how the pyramids were built and about the lives of the pharaohs and the workers who constructed these mountains of stone. There were many questions filling my mind, but few if any answers.” This inquiring interest led to the GIZA TRILOGY books, a monumental work of well-researched fiction set against the backdrop of the three pyramids on the Giza Plateau. Together, with their associated books, THE DIVINE LIGHT, ETERNAL EGYPT, (Supplement to the Giza Trilogy), and SECRET OF THE PYRAMID, these books total more than 1.3 million words! Other books written by Paul cover a wide range of subjects including historical fiction, science fiction, ghost and detective stories as well as many other genres.

Paul currently lives in Hobart, Tasmania with his wife in a house overlooking the Derwent River. “The magnificent views of the Derwent River and Mount Wellington inspire me in my writings — but the most important inspiration is my wife, Helena.”