Larry Zimmerman: 16 books

Retired Dirk Adler is half-heartedly renovating his shack-in-the-woods when mystery and history lure him away. Three women: brainy girlfriend Margot, sexy siren Vernonica and ethereal pyschic JoAnne help him uncover secrets buried in Amston woods for 300 years. The situation escalates when a developer...

Dirk Adler and Joe Wolf plan a quiet, relaxing afternoon of beer drinking and fishing on Amston Lake. Unfortunately, they catch a body instead of a fish. Dirk decides to investigate, but in trying to keep Joe out of trouble, Dirk inadvertently becomes a suspect himself. Margot reluctantly offers suggestions and they team up to clear Dirk, uncover the motive, and find the real murderer.

During a romantic picnic on Dibella's Island on Amston Lake, Dirk and Margot notice lights moving under the water. While investigating, Dirk finds a rare Dutch gold coin on the Sunken Island. How did a 300-year-old coin end up in Amston Lake? Having the coin puts Dirk’s life in danger. With help...

With help from Margot St. Ronan and accompanied by the prodigious Wendell, Dirk Adler follows an arduous trail involving enigmatic poems, hidden messages, bible verses, and an electronic device, to find a very valuable treasure. Unfortunately, another person, who won't hesitate to eliminate the competition,...

When people start dying in the small town of Lebanon, CT, the FBI and CDC speculate that terrorists are testing a deadly poison. Ricin, extracted from castor beans, has no known antidote. What no one suspects is the connection of the killer or killers to Dirk Adler and Joe Wolf. When that connection...

Arriving from Ohio, Stillman Wilcox enlists Dirk Adler’s aid to help him find bars of gold that he believes Revolutionary War soldiers hid near Amston Lake over three hundred years ago. Dirk and Margot decode the symbols on a strange map that Stillman found hidden in his chimney after his house burned down. The search for gold results in unforeseen danger for all involved.

Fire destroys a supposedly empty seasonal cottage, but when a candle is identified as the cause of the fire and a strange symbol has been scrawled on a wall, Dirk Adler wants to know what the symbol means. When a second fire is set and a body is found inside, Dirk decides to find out what is going...

Interested in whether there are ghosts at Amston Lake, Dirk, his girlfriend Margot, and his pet pig, Wendell, go into the woods to find out the truth. They discover there are more than just ghosts in the woods, and Dirk fears for Wendell’s life after finding footprints of an unknown creature nearby....

Joe Wolf hires Dirk Adler to convert an abandoned mansion into a business-meeting place. When Dirk becomes curious about the discrepancy in the room measurements, he opens a Pandora’s Box that lands him into a complicated plot of science and murder. Dirk decides to become a detective and follow...

Dirk Adler is approached by a young college student to help her find a magnetic boulder that apparently was predicted by Nikola Tesla to be in the Amston Lake area. Dirk takes the challenge realizing that it would be almost impossible to find such a boulder anywhere around the lake. Then from a casual...

Margot St. Ronan asked Dirk Adler to accompany her to obtain a psychic reading from a local medium, Madam Dianne Teratoid. Although Dirk conceded to accompany her, he felt that psychic readings were foolish and a waste of money. Dirk changed his opinion when Madam Teratoid revealed a fact about Margot...

Dirk Adler becomes worried when he hears construction noise next door to his cottage on the usually quiet road near Amston Lake. The construction stops when a human skull is unearthed. Investigation by the State of Connecticut Archeologist reveals a grave where a man died from a deadly disease. Dirk,...

Dirk Adler, a retired Systems Programmer and troubleshooter, finds a dead body in an abandoned stone foundation near Amston Lake, CT. Not content to wait for the police investigation, he follows a trail that leads from Hebron to Manchester to Martha's Vineyard and back. Join Dirk, his girlfriend Margot,...

Using the right media, archeologists can and must educate and excite the people who need their information. Larry Zimmerman's earnestly engaging guide to reporting archaeological findings argues that communication is one of archaeology's primary tasks. He offers advice on working with colleagues,...