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Episode Twenty-two – It's going to happen here. D'laska and Ainsworth walk through the amusement park in Asbury Park. One ride stands out, Sinbad's Carpet, the perfect spot for a murder. D'laska meets with State Trooper Joey Rocca, Anthony Rocca's nephew, and a plan is devised to stop what may happen the next day because D'laska does not trust Floriano and Stone, who are with Calabrese and Guzzett...

Episode Twenty-one – Authority, power, and money never lose. Though there is confusion swirling about him, another death, and a sickening occurrence, D'laska knows what avenue he must pursue to save a life. He's obsessed with resolving the final issues surrounding Nickie Piantini's death. Alone and isolated, he goes to the one person he believes he can trust and makes a deal with him, Captain Anth...

Before I get into why I wanted to do this, I just want to point out something I'd never really thought about before I started working on this story. And that is, it's really hard to account for what it is that people love about archery. I sure remember my days in camp when we all used the standard bow and arrow, but I had no idea how much the sport has grown.

Episode Twenty – You've auditioned for a part, and you've won the role. Agent John Gage tells D'laska everything he wants to know and more about the case, adding what the future could hold. D'laska makes it known he doesn't think much of Gage or what he is telling him. McConnell is left with no option but to relieve D'laska from the case. Ainsworth follows Stone and Floriano as they head into New...

Episode Nineteen – I'll give the girls a bag for the powder room. D'laska goes to Juan's Caribbean Club pretending he's a drug dealer and befriends Sergio Diez, one of the two Cubans at the morgue the day Calabrese identified Nickie's body. He meets a woman named Jean Moderna, but that doesn't help his cover as Diez finds D'laska's timing suspicious. An unexpected patron shows up and blows D'laska...

Here is the story of Sir David Lean, one of the greatest moviemakers of all time, director of such epics as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and A Passage to India. Stephen M. Silverman spent the better part of a year meeting with Lean to secure firsthand information for this book. An intensely private man, Lean opened up to Silverman and shared with him the story...

D'laska's persistence ultimately pays off. He unravels why Nickie Piantini was on the corner of Vermont and Ivy when he was shot and why Tito Garcia never left Nickie's car to help him. After finding a witness to the shooting, D'laska forces Suzanne to show him confidential paperwork in McConnell's office. A weary D'laska still has some loose ends to tie up.   Teaser: D'laska goes to Juan's Caribb...

Episode Seventeen – You've been used, schoolboy. Calabrese tells D'laska what he thinks of him and his investigative techniques. D'laska tells Calabrese he doesn't care about his past. That is for a subsequent investigation, probably by Internal Affairs. D'laska wants to see the Nickie Piantini funeral footage again, but Larry Ring has his own agenda and doesn't want D'laska anywhere near him. Fin...

Like many things from our past, lemonade stands, once a staple of American life, seem to be disappearing. Jane French is a volunteer for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation which has raised more than $45 million since 2004 to battle cancer in children. The foundation encourages people of all ages to set up lemonade stands to raise money for a good cause. It offers marketing materials and "stand coach...

Episode Sixteen – How many laws have you broken?   Now, other policemen, especially Chief Roberts, believe Calabrese is guilty of premeditated murder. D'laska ignores the unfounded information, disregards Calabrese's past, and concentrates on getting the unrefutable truth about the shooting. A storm is toppling McConnell, which means D'laska and Calabrese could be looking at indictments. Teaser: D...

Chapter Nine:   The Battle for the Liquor License   In spite of the raid on Studio 54 in December 1978, the club remained open and hotter than ever for more than a year. Time passed, and for twelve months, Steve and Ian continued to plea-bargain with the Feds, and then finally in January of 1980, they reached an agreement and   reported to prison on February 4. The night before his incarceration,...

Chapter Two: The Raid on Studio 54 Studio 54 first opened in April 1977 and became the most famous nightclub of all time. Its quick ascent was confounding because creators Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager were just two guys from Brooklyn in their early thirties. But they had talent. Steve's contribution was simple: people loved him and always had. He was the most popular kid in grammar school, high s...

Episode Fifteen – I almost hear his thoughts, he's praying for a miracle. D'laska has made some bad decisions, yet he feels he is progressing. Ainsworth sees it differently and makes that clear. D'laska revisits Andre Gabriel, who sliced his neck and won't leave his apartment till he gets the answers he wants. D'laska shows up at Suzanne's apartment after midnight unexpectedly.   Teaser:   With pr...

Written by Mark Fleischman, with Denise Chatman and Mimi Fleischman Introduction and Chapter 1 "I've had a thing for clubs since childhood. Social clubs, officers' clubs, nightclubs, and supper clubs—I love them all. It started the night my parents took me to The Copacabana for the first time. I was ten years old and it colored my world forever. Looking back, everything that has happened in my lif...

This is a story about diversions and daydreaming, of wind in my face. Straddling a chugging V-Twin engine that was born of a childhood fantasy, one where I would be zipping over the treetops, scarf to the wind, oil stained goggles peering at the long winding road below as the open cockpit plane sang to the fields and streams.

Tom Gallagher sat in his favorite coffee shop in a town two thousand miles away from where he grew up, a widower, father of two out of the nest. At fifty years of age, he'd done well for himself, able to put his kids through college and retire all in the same breath. His spot in the rear of the shop afforded the opportunity to see everyone who came and went, he'd lift his gaze from his computer ev...

Episode Fourteen – I feel like a sack of broken glass. D'laska and Ainsworth question Andre Gabriel at his apartment. It is not "official." Against Ainsworth's protests, D'laska decides to stop at Marlowe's Italian night spot on a busy night. Claudio Cellini is holding court, and unexpected patrons are not welcomed. D'laska finds out the hard way this was not a good idea.   Teaser: Andre Gabriel h...

I've done many interviews with authors, but only a few of them wearing two hats, that of being an editor, as well as an author. It was time for me to dig deep and learn about how they take on both tasks without having confusion set in. How do they separate these two very different areas of the craft of writing? These three crucial areas are learning the craft of writing, reading the craft of writi...

Episode Thirteen – I offer him my hand, but he doesn't accept it. Captain Conners confronts D'laska again, and Detective Olearczyk attempts to ignore him. Why has this shooting brought up so much animosity? After Calabrese slips out of his house, Guzzetta picks him up, and they meet with disbarred lawyer Dean Henry to discuss new ventures. Teaser: A surprised Andre Gabriel gets a visit from D'lask...

A four-lane highway passed over the Sparks yard at its eastern limit. The highway bridge had pedestrian spirals at each end and a jump-proof fence all across both sides. From mid-span, looking west, Lynden and The Duke could see the entire layout—freight cars hulking in the darkness, car-knocker's lanterns bobbing like fireflies as they checked the couplings. A switch crew was making up a train at...

I lost time to a steady rhythmic swing and clicking of cars traveling over rails. Passing scenery like a thief with no passion for roots, just a traveler fictionalizing what might be in the stationary figures I skidded past. Doesn't change for me, every day I slip back to her, and though time fades away I will always be right there with her, nineteen eighty five, etched in eternity.

Welcome to Novel Books, readings that will take you on the author's adventure, with stories you'll enjoy listening to. Today's reading is from Chapter 1 of the novel Bone Necklace by Julia Sullivan. She started working on Bone Necklace more than twenty years ago, after visiting the Big Hole Battlefield in Wisdom, Montana. Julia first became interested in the Nez Perce story because of the great in...

Episode Twelve – I don't seem to satisfy anybody. Deputy Commissioner Ruth Mulvaney and Deputy Inspector Larry Ring confront Chief McConnell about D'laska's handing of the Calabrese investigation and want it turned over to Ring. Otherwise, they are going over his head. A frustrated McConnell has a serious conversation with D'laska. How is the case progressing? Is Calabrese innocent of premeditated...

Episode Eleven – I don't like being used. At her apartment, a cunning Suzanne Baxter defines what is and isn't art to D'laska. Paul Ainsworth, D'laska's partner and close friend is back from Montreal. When D'laska fills him in on all the case details, Ainsworth states, "When you are about to be killed, your time is divided between the DA and a priest. Calabrese doesn't act like a man whose life is...

45 years ago it was 1977, I look back at my photography career, thinking about all that I'd seen and photographed as I began my career as a photographer. Studio 54, the infamous disco was the calling card to my beginnings as an established celebrity photographer.