Robert C Waggoner: 70 books

The serial killer: King of Hearts is methodically eliminating each face card of a deck of playing cards. He uses special stainless steel playing cards to throw at his tied up victims. He begins with the Jack of Clubs and works up from there. Adult content.Brad Pratt and his Batt Team are called to...

A small town high school reunion is rudely interrupted by a scream announcing murder. The suspects are many, including the Chief of Police. The murder weapon is found in his car. The victim was despised from the beginning of his life until the sudden demise of the wealthy lawyer he became. No one...

Aside from one, "Bent Tree" none of the other six stories have been published. All have the human factor we can relate to. It's up to you to take from each story what you want to. What all of the stories do is show you real life as we know it today and yesterday? The future is something else entirely.

Two astronauts return to planet earth that is mostly void of living things. The year is 2018 and the astronauts have been in suspended animation, or cryonics, for almost three years. The space craft automatically lands by its computer. The landing triggers the awakening of the two sleeping astronauts....

Brad Pratt is summoned by his father, the Secretary of the Navy to the Pentagon. His usually calm father is in a high state of anxiety. Brad is told that the most secret military prototype mini stealth catamaran submarine has been lost. Its technology is a state of the art death machine. The government...

Their honeymoon is not your typical lover’s experience. For our two homicide detectives, nestled deep in the Rocky Mountains, in a quaint log house, suddenly are involved in a case of assault, death and are targets of two assassins hired by an international corporation to stop their investigation...

Jose,, when he was a baby, he was left on the church doorstep. He was carried away by an old lady who took him to the mountains. As got older, he needed friends. He made a wish and presto: Jose loved his new family on planet Posthoc. He went to school and because part of the alien society....

Murder at the Peanut Plantation baffles the investigators because the victim, at a holiday party, suddenly collapses in the middle of the room with guests listening to him speak. Clearly one of the guests killed the victim, but 'who' will give Marshall Stacy Foreham and her team serious...

This is a murder mystery that will delight the reader along with intrigue stoking the imagination. A club of murdering misfits baffles the detectives. The leader is a discharged psycho from the mental hospital of the Army. He vows to murder all the popular girls from his former high school. He nearly...

During a golf tournament the initial foursome of ladies discover a woman sitting, tied up on a tee off bench, with a golf club sticking out of her head. It's obvious she's dead, but who killed her and why would someone want to murder a seemingly lovely young woman. The motive is a total mystery and...

Inspector David Cockrun suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD]. A macho man who nevertheless was smart enough to seek professional help from noted Psychologist Dr. Jones. Across town a highly successful psychiatrist who specialized in marriage counseling, made plans for his next kill....

A knock at your door reveals a person who says: "I'm sorry to report but your daughter, son, grandson, granddaughter, wife or anyone else that is related to you has been abducted. They don't want money. They want something that is more personal. They want to see you grovel, beg, plead, do anything...

To wonder is God's gift to us mere humans. This story has my wonderment of a 66 year old guy as what awaits me and others in Heaven. I admit to a bit of humor in my story, but humor is what makes us warm inside and pleasant to others around the world. I also took some empirical knowledge from...

Enclosed you'll find six short stories. All but two are about life as we know it today. Two are ghost stories. One is a mystery about diamonds. But still in the genre life