The Frank & Ernest Box Set

BOOKS: 1 - 5 in the thrilling series, "The Frank & Ernest Files". The complete box set.

** *This special edition includes the entire FIVE books of the bestselling series "The Frank & Ernest Files". Five riveting tales of murder, action, and suspense!* **

***SPOILERS AHEAD***

**DRIVE-BY (Book I)**

Meet Ernie Campanella, the poster boy for all that was wrong with the notorious Philadelphia Police Department in the 1970s. A boarder-line alcoholic, Campanella regards bigotry and brutality as standard operating procedure. Like many racists of his day, he can look kindly upon individual black people he has met and gotten to know, but still carries a strong measure of contempt for the race in general. On the other hand, he is a genius.

Ernie’s closest friend and former police academy roommate is Frank Mueller, a resourceful and ambitious cop who quickly gets promoted to Detective Third Class. The price he must pay for that promotion is to leave the orderly middle-class neighborhood where he, Ernie and their friend Greg Martin patrolled, and transfer to the most dangerous area of the city. Oddly enough, the safe, respectable neighborhood carries the unglamorous name of Fishtown, while the dangerous ghetto is called Strawberry Mansion. Go figure.

Shortly after Detective Mueller’s transfer, a drive-by shooting, seemingly between rival drug dealers, takes place. The shooters are believed to be from a Jamaican gang. In the process, they kill one member of the rival gang, wound another and kill an innocent little girl who had the bad luck to be in the path of the shooters.

Because of the child’s death, the city is calling for blood. Frank, to whom the case has been assigned, is under major pressure to build a case against the Jamaicans, and soon. In spite of the prevailing attitude, he thinks there may be more to this crime than meets the eye. Maybe his genius friend in Fishtown can help—that is if Frank can catch him in a sober moment.

**IN DEEP (Book II)**

In the second novel of the Frank and Ernest series, we meet the same two crafty cops we first met in Frank and Ernest at the Drive-By. Once again the two friends must solve a puzzling murder that, for one of them at least, hits a little too close to home. Oh yes, there is an added wrinkle this time: the two friends are friends no longer.

**MICKEY FINN (Book III)**

Both the daughters of Camilla Gomez have reason to celebrate. One will soon experience what she had always considered the greatest joy of marriage, while the other will find success in the business world beyond her fondest dreams. Ah, but such a state cannot go on forever. Before too long a dastardly deed will cast a pall on one of their lives.

**DEAD ENDS (Book IV)**

Suddenly, Frank Mueller has to solve a case he never thought he would become involved with. The crime had taken place in the ritziest parts of town, far, far removed from his precinct in the Strawberry Mansion ghetto.

Oddly enough, it is not Ernie who tips him off to the solution but, instead, someone from whom he never would have expected the help, unwanted as that help may have been. Ernie would be of no assistance in this situation, not because the two friends had again fallen out, but because Ernie had become blind in the way that there are none blinder.

**CLOSED CASKET (Book V)**

Frank Mueller and Ernie Campanella find themselves investigating, not one, but two murders of victims who, at first glance, would seem to have nothing to do with each other.