Check my latest book in the Axel Files series.

The Axel Files:
Snuffed

The Sūn Collection Feud

Available On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Axel-Files-Snuffed-Collection-Feud-ebook/dp/B0DG97SM18

The Sūn Collection auction of Qing Dynasty snuff bottles at the Shangri-la Hong Kong Hotel was highly anticipated. Three super-wealthy international financial magnates wanted the collection, but only one could get it. The winner, Kyan K. Tomkins of Toronto, represented by Alastair Hughes, snagged the prize. Tomkins’ British competitor, Sir Benedict Foxcroft, had to settle for two miniature jade Fu Dogs that cost him a paltry five hundred thousand bucks. American Michael C. Bullock was represented by his daughter-in-law, Wu Jing. She came up empty. The other significant bidder for the collection was Lester Green, representing Texas oilman Bobby Crawford. None of these men like to lose, but Bullock is the only one willing to do something about it.

Wu Jing’s uncle, HKPF Senior Superintendent Chan Fu, was responsible for protecting the items stored overnight in the vault room in the basement of the Shangri-la Hotel. Chan worked with two shady subordinates, Constables Lin Shi and Xū Chun. Chan looked forward to a comfortable retirement funded by Bullock if he could steal the snuff bottles from the vault room. The task proved more complicated than expected. The three crooked cops couldn’t crack the vault lock, so they spent the night breaking through the brick above the vault door. After hours of hard work, they finally created a large enough hole for Constable Lin to crawl through. He immediately spotted the snuff bottles. He tied them to a rope so his partner, Xū, could hoist them out of the vault. Lin looked around and saw the two miniature jade Fu Dogs. He was alone in the vault, so he stuffed the two jade miniatures into his pocket. It was almost the perfect crime, but the Fu Dogs would be their undoing.

Tomkins was livid when he heard the news. He demanded Hughes get his snuff bottles back. Hughes called Private Investigator Axel Webb an expert in finding lost, stolen, or misappropriated art and artifacts. Within hours, Axel was on a plane to Hong Kong. And so, the story of the Qing Dynasty Sūn Collection begins.

The 12th Book In The Axel Files Series.

Written by Jerry Bader

Check my latest book in the Axel Files series.

The Axel Files:
Snuffed

The Sūn Collection Feud

Available On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Axel-Files-Snuffed-Collection-Feud-ebook/dp/B0DG97SM18

The Sūn Collection auction of Qing Dynasty snuff bottles at the Shangri-la Hong Kong Hotel was highly anticipated. Three super-wealthy international financial magnates wanted the collection, but only one could get it. The winner, Kyan K. Tomkins of Toronto, represented by Alastair Hughes, snagged the prize. Tomkins’ British competitor, Sir Benedict Foxcroft, had to settle for two miniature jade Fu Dogs that cost him a paltry five hundred thousand bucks. American Michael C. Bullock was represented by his daughter-in-law, Wu Jing. She came up empty. The other significant bidder for the collection was Lester Green, representing Texas oilman Bobby Crawford. None of these men like to lose, but Bullock is the only one willing to do something about it.

Wu Jing’s uncle, HKPF Senior Superintendent Chan Fu, was responsible for protecting the items stored overnight in the vault room in the basement of the Shangri-la Hotel. Chan worked with two shady subordinates, Constables Lin Shi and Xū Chun. Chan looked forward to a comfortable retirement funded by Bullock if he could steal the snuff bottles from the vault room. The task proved more complicated than expected. The three crooked cops couldn’t crack the vault lock, so they spent the night breaking through the brick above the vault door. After hours of hard work, they finally created a large enough hole for Constable Lin to crawl through. He immediately spotted the snuff bottles. He tied them to a rope so his partner, Xū, could hoist them out of the vault. Lin looked around and saw the two miniature jade Fu Dogs. He was alone in the vault, so he stuffed the two jade miniatures into his pocket. It was almost the perfect crime, but the Fu Dogs would be their undoing.

Tomkins was livid when he heard the news. He demanded Hughes get his snuff bottles back. Hughes called Private Investigator Axel Webb an expert in finding lost, stolen, or misappropriated art and artifacts. Within hours, Axel was on a plane to Hong Kong. And so, the story of the Qing Dynasty Sūn Collection begins.

The 12th Book In The Axel Files Series.

Written by Jerry Bader

Check my latest book in the Axel Files series.

The Axel Files:
Snuffed

The Sūn Collection Feud

Available On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Axel-Files-Snuffed-Collection-Feud-ebook/dp/B0DG97SM18

The Sūn Collection auction of Qing Dynasty snuff bottles at the Shangri-la Hong Kong Hotel was highly anticipated. Three super-wealthy international financial magnates wanted the collection, but only one could get it. The winner, Kyan K. Tomkins of Toronto, represented by Alastair Hughes, snagged the prize. Tomkins’ British competitor, Sir Benedict Foxcroft, had to settle for two miniature jade Fu Dogs that cost him a paltry five hundred thousand bucks. American Michael C. Bullock was represented by his daughter-in-law, Wu Jing. She came up empty. The other significant bidder for the collection was Lester Green, representing Texas oilman Bobby Crawford. None of these men like to lose, but Bullock is the only one willing to do something about it.

Wu Jing’s uncle, HKPF Senior Superintendent Chan Fu, was responsible for protecting the items stored overnight in the vault room in the basement of the Shangri-la Hotel. Chan worked with two shady subordinates, Constables Lin Shi and Xū Chun. Chan looked forward to a comfortable retirement funded by Bullock if he could steal the snuff bottles from the vault room. The task proved more complicated than expected. The three crooked cops couldn’t crack the vault lock, so they spent the night breaking through the brick above the vault door. After hours of hard work, they finally created a large enough hole for Constable Lin to crawl through. He immediately spotted the snuff bottles. He tied them to a rope so his partner, Xū, could hoist them out of the vault. Lin looked around and saw the two miniature jade Fu Dogs. He was alone in the vault, so he stuffed the two jade miniatures into his pocket. It was almost the perfect crime, but the Fu Dogs would be their undoing.

Tomkins was livid when he heard the news. He demanded Hughes get his snuff bottles back. Hughes called Private Investigator Axel Webb an expert in finding lost, stolen, or misappropriated art and artifacts. Within hours, Axel was on a plane to Hong Kong. And so, the story of the Qing Dynasty Sūn Collection begins.

The 12th Book In The Axel Files Series.

Written by Jerry Bader

Check my latest book in the Axel Files series.

The Axel Files:
Snuffed

The Sūn Collection Feud

Available On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Axel-Files-Snuffed-Collection-Feud-ebook/dp/B0DG97SM18

The Sūn Collection auction of Qing Dynasty snuff bottles at the Shangri-la Hong Kong Hotel was highly anticipated. Three super-wealthy international financial magnates wanted the collection, but only one could get it. The winner, Kyan K. Tomkins of Toronto, represented by Alastair Hughes, snagged the prize. Tomkins’ British competitor, Sir Benedict Foxcroft, had to settle for two miniature jade Fu Dogs that cost him a paltry five hundred thousand bucks. American Michael C. Bullock was represented by his daughter-in-law, Wu Jing. She came up empty. The other significant bidder for the collection was Lester Green, representing Texas oilman Bobby Crawford. None of these men like to lose, but Bullock is the only one willing to do something about it.

Wu Jing’s uncle, HKPF Senior Superintendent Chan Fu, was responsible for protecting the items stored overnight in the vault room in the basement of the Shangri-la Hotel. Chan worked with two shady subordinates, Constables Lin Shi and Xū Chun. Chan looked forward to a comfortable retirement funded by Bullock if he could steal the snuff bottles from the vault room. The task proved more complicated than expected. The three crooked cops couldn’t crack the vault lock, so they spent the night breaking through the brick above the vault door. After hours of hard work, they finally created a large enough hole for Constable Lin to crawl through. He immediately spotted the snuff bottles. He tied them to a rope so his partner, Xū, could hoist them out of the vault. Lin looked around and saw the two miniature jade Fu Dogs. He was alone in the vault, so he stuffed the two jade miniatures into his pocket. It was almost the perfect crime, but the Fu Dogs would be their undoing.

Tomkins was livid when he heard the news. He demanded Hughes get his snuff bottles back. Hughes called Private Investigator Axel Webb an expert in finding lost, stolen, or misappropriated art and artifacts. Within hours, Axel was on a plane to Hong Kong. And so, the story of the Qing Dynasty Sūn Collection begins.

The 12th Book In The Axel Files Series.

Written by Jerry Bader

Check out my lastest book in the Axel Files Series.

The Axel Files:
Snuffed

The Sūn Collection Feud

Available On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Axel-Files-Snuffed-Collection-Feud-ebook/dp/B0DG97SM18

The Sūn Collection auction of Qing Dynasty snuff bottles at the Shangri-la Hong Kong Hotel was highly anticipated. Three super-wealthy international financial magnates wanted the collection, but only one could get it. The winner, Kyan K. Tomkins of Toronto, represented by Alastair Hughes, snagged the prize. Tomkins’ British competitor, Sir Benedict Foxcroft, had to settle for two miniature jade Fu Dogs that cost him a paltry five hundred thousand bucks. American Michael C. Bullock was represented by his daughter-in-law, Wu Jing. She came up empty. The other significant bidder for the collection was Lester Green, representing Texas oilman Bobby Crawford. None of these men like to lose, but Bullock is the only one willing to do something about it.

Wu Jing’s uncle, HKPF Senior Superintendent Chan Fu, was responsible for protecting the items stored overnight in the vault room in the basement of the Shangri-la Hotel. Chan worked with two shady subordinates, Constables Lin Shi and Xū Chun. Chan looked forward to a comfortable retirement funded by Bullock if he could steal the snuff bottles from the vault room. The task proved more complicated than expected. The three crooked cops couldn’t crack the vault lock, so they spent the night breaking through the brick above the vault door. After hours of hard work, they finally created a large enough hole for Constable Lin to crawl through. He immediately spotted the snuff bottles. He tied them to a rope so his partner, Xū, could hoist them out of the vault. Lin looked around and saw the two miniature jade Fu Dogs. He was alone in the vault, so he stuffed the two jade miniatures into his pocket. It was almost the perfect crime, but the Fu Dogs would be their undoing.

Tomkins was livid when he heard the news. He demanded Hughes get his snuff bottles back. Hughes called Private Investigator Axel Webb an expert in finding lost, stolen, or misappropriated art and artifacts. Within hours, Axel was on a plane to Hong Kong. And so, the story of the Qing Dynasty Sūn Collection begins.

The 12th Book In The Axel Files Series.

Written by Jerry Bader

This is a Neo-Noir Podcast Review of author and screenwriter Jerry Bader's books written to be turned into television or feature film franchises.

"The Axel Files: Florence's Floozy" is the first book in the ten book series about Privare Detective Axel Webb who travels the world finding lost, stolen, and mis appropriated art and artifacts. If you like "The Maltese Falcon," you should check out The Axel Files.

The Axel Files:
Florence’s Floozy

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B4NWHBPV/

Who Will Find The Savola Diamond,
And Who Will Die Trying?

What would you do to be rich? Not just rich, but fabulously rich. Perhaps you are that unique soul that has no dreams, no aspirations, no agenda… well if you are, good luck. It must be a very dreary existence. But if you’re like the rest of us, you have a fantasy, a vision of what could be, of what you could be. Maybe that dream is selfish, or maybe it’s altruistic, or maybe... it’s extremist.

What if there was a family jewel, an exquisite 133-carat pink piece of perfection, a diamond that historically belonged to you, and what if that gem was stolen and disappeared for eighty years? And what if, rumour had it, that diamond suddenly reappeared? What lengths would you go to get it back? And what if the person who stole that diamond promised it to some very bad people so he could get his family to safety during a war. And what if that person was murdered for making that Faustian deal that he refused to deliver on? What if… What if…

When people are desperate, when people run out of options when people have no other place to go… who do they turn to? Perhaps to a man like Axel Webb. Why? Just ask him. He’ll tell you: “I find things; I find out things about things, and I find evidence of things.”

So it’s not surprising that an exiled Italian Conte and his wife, a pair of religiously motivated social extremists, and the great-granddaughter of the man who stole the gem all find their way to Axel Webb’s office.

International intrigue, religious extremism, self-preservation, and murder are all facets of the glittering pink prize. Who will find it, and at what cost? Or does it even still exist?

"The Axel Files: Florence's Floozy" is the first book in the ten book series about Privare Detective Axel Webb who travels the world finding lost, stolen, and mis appropriated art and artifacts. If you like "The Maltese Falcon," you should check out The Axel Files.

The Axel Files:
Florence’s Floozy

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B4NWHBPV/

Who Will Find The Savola Diamond,
And Who Will Die Trying?

What would you do to be rich? Not just rich, but fabulously rich. Perhaps you are that unique soul that has no dreams, no aspirations, no agenda… well if you are, good luck. It must be a very dreary existence. But if you’re like the rest of us, you have a fantasy, a vision of what could be, of what you could be. Maybe that dream is selfish, or maybe it’s altruistic, or maybe... it’s extremist.

What if there was a family jewel, an exquisite 133-carat pink piece of perfection, a diamond that historically belonged to you, and what if that gem was stolen and disappeared for eighty years? And what if, rumour had it, that diamond suddenly reappeared? What lengths would you go to get it back? And what if the person who stole that diamond promised it to some very bad people so he could get his family to safety during a war. And what if that person was murdered for making that Faustian deal that he refused to deliver on? What if… What if…

When people are desperate, when people run out of options when people have no other place to go… who do they turn to? Perhaps to a man like Axel Webb. Why? Just ask him. He’ll tell you: “I find things; I find out things about things, and I find evidence of things.”

So it’s not surprising that an exiled Italian Conte and his wife, a pair of religiously motivated social extremists, and the great-granddaughter of the man who stole the gem all find their way to Axel Webb’s office.

International intrigue, religious extremism, self-preservation, and murder are all facets of the glittering pink prize. Who will find it, and at what cost? Or does it even still exist?