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		<title>Trouble in Paradise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Jim Nash hasn&#8217;t said word one to Maddie, but he&#8217;s considering shutting down the detective business he started years ago. They&#8217;re comfortable in their surroundings without the need for more business, thanks to the cash that&#8217;s accumulated over the years. His biggest problem is how he&#8217;ll broach the subject to Maddie. When Harry Delany comes &#8230; </p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-10533 alignright" src="http://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Trouble-Full-Page-FLAT-2026-02-09-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" srcset="https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Trouble-Full-Page-FLAT-2026-02-09-200x300.jpg 200w, https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Trouble-Full-Page-FLAT-2026-02-09-683x1024.jpg 683w, https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Trouble-Full-Page-FLAT-2026-02-09-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Trouble-Full-Page-FLAT-2026-02-09-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Trouble-Full-Page-FLAT-2026-02-09-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Trouble-Full-Page-FLAT-2026-02-09.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" />Jim Nash hasn&#8217;t said word one to Maddie, but he&#8217;s considering shutting down the detective business he started years ago. They&#8217;re comfortable in their surroundings without the need for more business, thanks to the cash that&#8217;s accumulated over the years. His biggest problem is how he&#8217;ll broach the subject to Maddie.</p>
<p>When Harry Delany comes knocking on his office door, Jim&#8217;s thoughts of retirement are put on the back burner. Someone is missing, and reluctant as Harry is to discuss it, he finally asks Jim for his help.</p>
<p>After a near-disaster with Harry&#8217;s bodyguard, Ziv, Jim Nash is convinced he must gather his crew together for yet another assignment. It would be tough to turn Harry Delaney down after he came to Jim&#8217;s rescue in North Africa where he and Maddie found themselves on their honeymoon.</p>
<p>With no ransom demands and consequently no one on the hook for the kidnapping, all hands on deck are forced to work to come up with an action plan to find the perpetrators.</p>
<p><strong>E-book available from all the usual suspects in the sidebar. Print books available from Amazon and Ingram Spark, too.</strong></p>The post <a href="https://pxduke.com/trouble-in-paradise/">Trouble in Paradise</a> first appeared on <a href="https://pxduke.com">P X Duke</a>.]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>The Lady in Yellow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Jim Nash and the fedora Maddie has forbidden him to wear in public is on another tear. This time, he’s after a woman wearing a yellow dress who shows up at his office. Melanie Taylor wants him to prove she hasn’t murdered her husband in cold blood. Nash is reluctant to accept the case—that is, &#8230; </p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" src="http://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/JN-Lady-Yellow-FLAT-96dpi-16x24-2025-10-25-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-10530" srcset="https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/JN-Lady-Yellow-FLAT-96dpi-16x24-2025-10-25-200x300.jpg 200w, https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/JN-Lady-Yellow-FLAT-96dpi-16x24-2025-10-25-683x1024.jpg 683w, https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/JN-Lady-Yellow-FLAT-96dpi-16x24-2025-10-25-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/JN-Lady-Yellow-FLAT-96dpi-16x24-2025-10-25-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/JN-Lady-Yellow-FLAT-96dpi-16x24-2025-10-25-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/JN-Lady-Yellow-FLAT-96dpi-16x24-2025-10-25.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" />Jim Nash and the fedora Maddie has forbidden him to wear in public is on another tear. This time, he’s after a woman wearing a yellow dress who shows up at his office. Melanie Taylor wants him to prove she hasn’t murdered her husband in cold blood.</p>
<p>Nash is reluctant to accept the case—that is, until Taylor crosses his palm with an envelope containing a cool hundred bucks. He immediately accepts the challenge, and after Taylor departs, he heads over to his favorite bar. There, he encounters his cop friend, Danny Boyle. He flashes Boyle a twenty from his proceeds, and asks the cop to tell him all about the case.</p>
<p>Boyle isn’t reluctant. In typical cop fashion, he tells Nash what he knows, and what he doesn’t know.</p>
<p>Will Jim Nash get sucked into Melanie Taylor’s web of lies? Only time will tell, and it’s not doing much talking.</p>The post <a href="https://pxduke.com/the-lady-in-yellow/">The Lady in Yellow</a> first appeared on <a href="https://pxduke.com">P X Duke</a>.]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>No Escape</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The wedding of Jim Nash and Maddie Spence has gone off without a hitch—that is, until Maddie gets a bee in her bonnet about Djibouti in North Africa. While the couple honeymoon in Málaga, Spain, Jim is offered a flight to Djibouti to visit for a couple of days. Maddie jumps at the chance to &#8230; </p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-10523 alignright" src="http://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Djibouti-downtown-01-FLAT-16x24-96dp1-2025-11-05-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" srcset="https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Djibouti-downtown-01-FLAT-16x24-96dp1-2025-11-05-200x300.jpg 200w, https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Djibouti-downtown-01-FLAT-16x24-96dp1-2025-11-05-683x1024.jpg 683w, https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Djibouti-downtown-01-FLAT-16x24-96dp1-2025-11-05-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Djibouti-downtown-01-FLAT-16x24-96dp1-2025-11-05-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Djibouti-downtown-01-FLAT-16x24-96dp1-2025-11-05-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://pxduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Djibouti-downtown-01-FLAT-16x24-96dp1-2025-11-05.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" />The wedding of Jim Nash and Maddie Spence has gone off without a hitch—that is, until Maddie gets a bee in her bonnet about Djibouti in North Africa. While the couple honeymoon in Málaga, Spain, Jim is offered a flight to Djibouti to visit for a couple of days. Maddie jumps at the chance to jump on the airplane with Jim to learn more about Harry Delaney&#8217;s base in Djibouti.</p>
<p>While Jim steps out of their hotel to pick up a rental car, he ends up getting kidnapped. Is it a random act by locals hoping to get a few meagre Djibouti Francs from what they see as a rich tourist, or is it something more sinister?</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 1rem;">No Escape is a collection of two works, Stealing America and Blame It on Djibouti. You can get both volumes in one when you download No Escape. Available at all the usual suspects in the sidebar.</span></p>The post <a href="https://pxduke.com/no-escape/">No Escape</a> first appeared on <a href="https://pxduke.com">P X Duke</a>.]]></content:encoded>
					
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