MASSIVE MYSTERY BIG BOXSET — VOLUME TWO

20 Weird & Whacky Florida Mysteries Featuring Gumbo Malone

20 mysteries. One stubborn private investigator. And an entire state that apparently has no adult supervision.

Welcome back to Cedar Key, Florida.

Where the beer is cold, the weather is hot, the pelicans are judgmental, and the criminal population seems determined to keep one reluctant detective employed forever.

Meet Danny "Gumbo" Malone.

Former corporate middle manager. Accidental private investigator. Proud owner of a questionable boat, a trusty composition notebook, and a remarkable talent for getting involved in other people's bad decisions.

He moved to Florida looking for a little peace and quiet.

Florida had other plans.

Now Gumbo is back for twenty more complete mysteries featuring suspicious deaths, crooked businessmen, stolen designer shoes, missing chickens, corporate conspiracies, and the kind of criminal stupidity you simply cannot make up.

Except I did.

And I've collected all twenty adventures into one MASSIVE MYSTERY BOXSET!

HERE'S WHAT YOU GET INSIDE VOLUME TWO

1. MOON SHINE MARINA 🍹

A backwoods mechanic invents a miracle engine cleaner that turns out to be 180-proof moonshine. Now federal agents, corporate thieves, and an army of retirees are fighting over the recipe.

2. ABOVE BOARD 🚤

A luxury yacht explodes off the Florida coast, and everybody calls it an accident. Gumbo follows the money into a swamp of crooked developers, insurance fraud, and waterfront corruption.

3. BONE DEEP 🦴

Three stolen Ice Age fossils should be an easy recovery job. Instead, Gumbo stumbles into a multimillion-dollar black market where prehistoric bones are worth killing for.

4. DUMB AND FAMOUS 🎬

A Florida film production is plagued by a mysterious stalker. Someone is filming the danger, manufacturing viral moments, and planning a finale nobody will forget.

5. PI PROBLEMS 🔎

Gumbo's fellow investigator Artie misses a steak dinner, and rumors of a mysterious "Artie Collector" start circulating. In Florida, even a ridiculous urban legend can lead to genuine trouble.

6. SWEET TROUBLE 🍬

A sugar heiress disappears into the Everglades carrying evidence that could ruin her family's empire. Gumbo follows her trail into a dangerous mix of corporate secrets, betrayal, and swamp-country trouble.

7. JACK THE STRIPPER 💃

A young dancer turns up dead, and the circumstances are anything but ordinary. Gumbo follows the clues through Florida's nightlife and discovers a carefully organized web of secrets.

8. SAND TRAP ⛳

A wealthy developer turns up dead in a golf course bunker. The authorities see a heart attack, but Gumbo sees strange footprints, missing evidence, and a widow who may know too much.

9. MESSING AROUND 🗑️

A garbage truck driver is murdered on a lonely county road. His secret investigation into suspicious landfill activity leads Gumbo toward toxic waste, corporate corruption, and some very dirty money.

10. BAKED NAKED 🛥️

A dead entrepreneur falls from a luxury party barge, and a naked fugitive vanishes into the mangroves. Before long, influencers, conspiracy theorists, and television cameras descend on Cedar Key.

11. SENIOR DISCOUNT 👵

A gang of senior citizens is accused of organized shoplifting. Gumbo discovers that beneath the supposed crime spree lies a much larger battle involving corrupt HOAs, powerful interests, and retirees who refuse to surrender.

12. HIGH JINX 🌊

A missing woman, a mysterious package floating in the Gulf, and a retirement plan involving drug smugglers and a flare gun. What could possibly go wrong?

13. HOLY ROLLERS ⛪

A donated church RV disappears and turns up in a luxury vacation rental business. Gumbo uncovers a million-dollar scheme hiding behind good intentions and religious respectability.

14. WASHED UP 🌀

A television weatherman disappears just as a Category Four hurricane threatens Florida. His disappearance leads to a stolen forecasting system and powerful people desperate to control it.

15. PICKLE TICKLE 🏓

A seventy-one-year-old pickleball champion dies during a match. Gumbo investigates a retirement community where suspiciously athletic seniors and a secret wellness program are hiding a dangerous game.

16. IN FLUENCER 📱

A social media celebrity's luxury yacht goes up in flames. Her perfect life has millions of followers, but nearly everything about it is fake—and somebody wants the world to know.

17. SEASHELLS SHE SELLS 🐚

A successful seashell jewelry designer receives a blackmail demand. When her collecting records disappear, Gumbo discovers a twelve-year-old dispute that threatens her entire business.

18. FOWL MOUTH 🐔

A prize-winning chicken vanishes just before the county fair, and the prime suspect is a hawk. Gumbo must solve the mystery of a missing celebrity hen before the neighborhood completely loses its feathers.

19. SHOE FLY 👠

Four hundred and twelve pairs of designer shoes worth $2.3 million vanish overnight. The prime suspect is in prison, the owner is stuck wearing discount flip-flops, and Gumbo is about to discover the criminal side of high fashion.

20. COW TRIPPIN 🐄

A muddy, barefoot young woman arrives at Gumbo's marina with an extraordinary story: four people are missing. What begins with an urgent plea for help pulls Gumbo into another bizarre Florida countryside mystery.

TWENTY MYSTERIES. ONE BIG BOXSET. ENDLESS FLORIDA TROUBLE.

Inside this collection, you'll discover:

• 🌴 Colorful Gulf Coast characters and outrageous Florida situations
• 🔎 Twisty mysteries, missing persons, suspicious deaths, and strange crimes
• 😂 Sharp dialogue, dry humor, and plenty of laugh-out-loud moments
• 🐊 Crooked corporations, shady politicians, swamp conspiracies, and spectacularly bad decisions
• 🍺 A reluctant private investigator who would rather be enjoying a cold beer
• 📚 20 complete Gumbo Malone adventures in one convenient digital collection

Whether you're a longtime Gumbo Malone fan or discovering his world for the first time, Volume Two offers another enormous helping of mystery, mischief, and Florida sunshine.

Why buy your mysteries one at a time when you can get twenty together?

No hunting down individual titles.

No waiting for the next case.

Just pick up the collection, open the first mystery, and follow Gumbo straight into trouble.

And when you finish one adventure?

Nineteen more are waiting.

GRAB MASSIVE MYSTERY BIG BOXSET VOLUME TWO TODAY!

Twenty stories. Hundreds of suspects. More Florida nonsense than should be legally permitted.

Because in Cedar Key, the question isn't whether something weird will happen.

It's whether Gumbo can finish his beer before it does.

By C LOWRY

Perfect for readers who enjoy the offbeat Florida crime fiction of Carl Hiaasen, the outrageous characters of Tim Dorsey, and the sharp dialogue of Elmore Leonard.