Michael In Hell, the Original Copy

The original from Pagefree Publishing in 2001.

My novel from 2001 is listing for over 10,000 dollars for a used copy in the rare book section of Alibris. That version is out of print, and I never expected it to be valuable. When I wrote the original short story in 1973 and sent it to Isaac Asimov, he told me to turn it into a novel, which I finished in 1991. Time has caught up with the predictions I made for 2005 back in 1973, but many have come true. It's a non-stop thrill ride with a serial killer who kills other serial killers and child killers. Probably the first novel of its kind, it scares women for some reason, and gives the reader a glimpse of a world they would be too afraid to enter. I've been told it stays with you long after you read it. It has stayed with me since I wrote it, but that's to be expected with your own creation.

There have been a few rumors about my being investigated by the FBI because of this novel, but they were not true. Cold case detectives did come to my house back in 2009 to ask me my theory about an unsolved murder from 2000 in Fairfield, Ohio of a P&G employee. The case is still unsolved, but I feel if they would have followed up on what I said, they could possibly have solved it. A profile I wrote helped the Phoenix, Arizona police solve the Baseline Killer murder several years ago.

So, under my birth name I write and under the Marino name I sing. While we dated, Dorothy read Michael In Hell and told her friends she might be dating a serial killer. I appreciated the thought because that means the book worked in its story job.

Michael In Hell is available with a reasonable price with a new cover. The story is the same, just a different publisher.

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