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The Web Site of Robert P. Fitton
The Web Site of Robert P. Fitton
Fitton on the Air Podcasts
Fitton on the Air Podcasts
Cape Cod author Robert P. Fitton presents podcasts, featuring episodes from his books. Fitton adds a unique perspective with a New England accent in his own whimsical way several times a week.
Introduction
Introduction
Robert P. Fitton loves writing time travel and science fiction books and has loaded his audio, paperback and kindle links on this site. His unique Matthias Jones Mysteries Series features humor (lol) interspersed into murder investigations! But he hasn't left out the thriller mysteries, short stories, novellas and poems. For your reading and listening pleasure.
Time Travel Books
Time Travel Books
The Time Travel Page Audio Samples
It was a time when liars were heroes and killers walked free. Jake McBride is a San Francisco assistant district attorney who watches the killer Johnny Rheingold go free on a technicality. Mr. Melbourne offers Jake a chance to bring Rheingold to justice in the old American West. Jake becomes Marshal Jake McBride from Brinson, Nevada. The adventure begins when silver on the way to the US mint in Carson City disappears from Overland Train 924 outside Brinson. Rheingold arrives in town on the evening stage and the quest for justice begins.
In a wild time travel novel, Mark McKenna and the crew of Time Portal Alpha board a vehicle which had only simulated journeys back in time. The maniacal Dr. Nieeko Mauro, a man both genius and evil has broken the time barrier to radically alter the current timeline. Nieeko wishes to diminish the United States of America into a minor world power, seething in poverty and unable to economically take care of its own people. A point in time exists in the twentieth century where Nieeko altered the timeline and prevents a project that brought economic growth to America in the 20th century. McKenna is confronted by Nieeko with unforeseen circumstances and a surprise ending.
An update of 1927 by Robert P. Fitton with color photos from 1927. Charlie Russo is a part of the remarkable events of 1927, including Babe Ruth's quest for 60 home runs, Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic and the Dempsey-Tunney "Long Count" fight. Jamal, from the distant future, befriends and falls in love with Charlie. From Boston to Niagara Falls they are chased by government agents and bioenergy beings. Under attack, Jamal tries to save the human race from eventual destruction by attempting to send an outer space signal high above downtown Manhattan.
A new version 0f 1939 by Robert P. Fitton with color photographs and hyperlinks. Andy Reese, an exoplanet astronomer living in the distant future contacts the Enclave, the last vestige of humanity. To stop the annihilation of the human race by the Seraph, post biological life forms, Reese is sent back along the timeline to prevent the evolution of the Seraph from computers. The link in time is an Iowa farm girl, Lucy Apel who has won a national contest to travel to the 1939 New York World's Fair and Professor Herman Geiger a gifted scientist, writer, and social philosopher. To change history Reese must avert Geiger's death at the fair. But the Seraph have other plans as they follow Reese back to 1939 to thwart changing history.
Kathryn is plagued by reoccurring nightmares of a murder committed over forty years in the past by Conrad Ridder, a present day TV talk show guru. She returns to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the Pilgrims landed- also the scene of the murders. There she meets Tucker, a truck driving cowboy from Arizona, who has dreamed the same dreams. When her free spirited friend Roz arrives in Plymouth they are all spirited back to 1958. Their mission: Confront the young talk show host and bring justice for the dead.
Caroline's husband Greg is gunned down on a Chicago street by Marco, a vengeful high school acquaintance. Her encounter with a time altering gypsy brings her and her uncle back to Greg's high school days in 1968. Stopping a basketball accident that ruined Greg's life will prevent his untimely death in the future. But the young Marco's obsessive lust for Caroline and his awareness of her purpose back in time threatens to thwart her plans to divert Greg from smashing into the basketball backboards late on a December afternoon in 1968.
An updated version of 1961 by Robert P. Fitton- with CIA names, period photos, enhanced audio.In 1986, led by terrorist Carlos Sánchez, nuclear devices are planted in American cities. As New York and other cities are swallowed up in fireballs, Patch Kincaid is sent back in time to prevent the destruction. He lands in 1961, where he chases Sánchez into the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Captured by Castro, Patch and his mentor Meinkewitz chase Carlos Sánchez into rural Cuba.
Return to Dallas is an encyclopedic sourced novel surveilling Lee Oswald in the summer and fall of 1963 as well as highlighting the surrounding plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Return to Dallas utilizes the evolving information while discarding debunked JFK Assassination theories. Photographs paint the era in vivid color rather than aging vintage black and white stills. Those associated with the plot to kill Jack Kennedy as well as peripheral characters are woven into a pertinent historical context. The reader will soon understand the whirlwind around Lee Harvey Oswald and why President Kennedy was removed from office. Why are Oswald’s movements around the southern United States in the summer and fall of 1963 relevant? The Kennedy Assassination is now part of history and the narrative of Lee Oswald shooting the president from a sixth-floor window is mired in the public consciousness. Oswald
Colorado: 1539- Ricardo and Martin stumble upon an abandoned alien mountain outpost called Cibola. The Entities inside allow Ricardo to jump at will into many worlds. Just before the millennium Ricardo rips Peter Sturgis from Jeannie and his children, and inserts him ahead in time, where Jeannie is a Hollywood star, Jean Carlisle, married to Ricardo. Peter pursues Jeannie but faces his ultimate showdown when Ricardo orders Jeannie's death.
The Matthias Jones Mysteries
The Matthias Jones Mysteries
"Murder, mayhem, and monkey business."Four women are brutally murdered in six weeks by a killer wielding a razor's deadly blade. Matthias Jones, just taking the reins of coaching at Hamilton College, learns tangentially of the Prince William Slasher. He is introduced at a Hamilton College trustees' meeting and catches the eyes of the retired model Pia. Jones and Cocoa are witness to a fifth gruesome murder and Jones begins the pursuit of the killer. Jones must deal with the antics of the irascible Arnie Dewars and his goofy friend Muddy Jacobs. The slasher attempts yet another murder and begins taunting Jones on the phone. Pia and Jones begin dating but Pia has grand designs on the Hamilton College coach. As Jones's basketball team begins winning, the killer threatens him directly with murder.
"Murder, mayhem, and monkey business."Four women are brutally murdered in six weeks by a killer wielding a razor's deadly blade. Matthias Jones, just taking the reins of coaching at Hamilton College, learns tangentially of the Prince William Slasher. He is introduced at a Hamilton College trustees' meeting and catches the eyes of the retired model Pia. Jones and Cocoa are witness to a fifth gruesome murder and Jones begins the pursuit of the killer. Jones must deal with the antics of the irascible Arnie Dewars and his goofy friend Muddy Jacobs. The slasher attempts yet another murder and begins taunting Jones on the phone. Pia and Jones begin dating but Pia has grand designs on the Hamilton College coach. As Jones's basketball team begins winning, the killer threatens him directly with murder.
Lake Brad Davis was a brilliant genetic researcher working for Hamilton Fletcher and Hamilton College. But Davis’s wild life of parties, booze, drugs and sex made him many enemies. When he is murdered a Hamilton College student Amy Pollard is found with her personally owned handgun, the gun that killed Brad Davis. Just that afternoon Davis bloodied his benefactor, Hamilton Fletcher’s nose. Lurking in the background is Davis’s mob connection to Albert Fiore in Boston. A Hamilton College professor, Zoey Wilmont is suspiciously surveilling the lake house area. The Fletchers reach out to Matthias Jones to protect the college’s interest and find the murderer. Jones ends up with his nefarious friend Cocoa Stefani in Boston eventually confronts the murderer directly.
Club Max, owned by Jones's friend and underworld character Cocoa Stefani, is a cauldron for risky behavior. Jones's star football player is arrested for the murder of a Club Max hooker. Jones jumps into the case, irritated by a Sherlock Holmes buff trying to solve the crime. Mobsters and students are all suspects and it is only in the hair raising final scene where the true killer is revealed
Did Father Jim Gallagher murder Dr. Sergi Povitch? The police think so. Povitch dies at his observatory from poison at Gallagher’s dinner table. Now Gallagher is on the run. Matthias Jones tries to exonerate the priest, but he also suspects his star player who confided drug use to Dr. Povitch. A Povitch colleague has stolen vital notes from the doctor's notebook for a book deal. And was Povitch's companion, Elsie McIntire, after his money?Blocking Jones's investigation is a bumbling security cop, Bucky Driscoll. Driscoll clumsily destroys vital evidence and his constant stupidity annoys Jones' temperamental close friend-a sly underworld figure named Cocoa Stefani. Then a second murder-one of Jones's cheerleaders. While at the funeral in her hometown, Jones finds the evidence he needs to confront the murder.
In Funeral March for the Maestro, the conductor of the Prince William Symphony is murdered with a single bullet yet two shots were fired-a minute apart. Beloved coach Lark Larsen has tested positive for firing a gun.With the help of wacky locals in Hamilton New Hampshire, Matthias Jones zeroes in on the real murderer-someone who knew the maestro very well.
Hamilton Fletcher leader in the town, industry, and patriarch is murdered in his study. His money grubbing daughter was on the Fletcher Estate in the carriage house. A gun toting neighbor lurked in the shadows. The company controller may have wanted more power. And the fired groundskeeper was upset with Hamilton Fletcher. Matthias Jones finds Hamilton dead at his computer with a mystery file called Jersey imports on the screen. After being shot at on numerous occasions, threatened and targeted for murder, Matthias Jones locates the accused. Of course the local yokels impede and help him solve the murder-all with much (lol).
Mob boss Albert Fiore is under suspicion of fixing races on Channel Z, a nationwide gambling video feed. To clear himself of the charges Fiore plans to implicate Charlie DiPiro, former mob boss now suffering from dementia. Cocoa Stefani was brought up in DiPiro’s organization and has an unyielding loyalty to his boss. In this backdrop a Mustang explodes behind Coach Matthias Jones’s baseball game. As Cocoa disappears Jones follows a lead to find out why the car exploded. Sidetracking the investigation Is boisterous sportswriter Billy Bobcat. In the course of turning up clues, Jones uncovers the truth but also faces Fiore’s wrath.
Was there an unseen murder in Hamilton twenty-five years in the past? Matthias Jones begins to wonder what happened to Professor Harrison Mobley decades ago. Did he leave town when of all his enemies descended on his colonial on the common twenty-five years ago? Or was there foul play? Jones has a side road theory that Mobley may have been murdered. Perhaps in his own house. But it’s more complicated. All of the suspects from twenty-five years ago are alive in Hamilton today, some in prominent positions. And someone does not want Jones uncovering the details of what happened one night at his house so long ago.
What became of Anthony Stefani, who disappeared five years ago? Within the humor of the wacky characters of Hamilton, New Hampshire Matthias Jones begins a murder investigation after a bizarre murder in Hamilton. Events turn serious when Jones tracks the killer to New York City and a violent international gang. The investigation crosses the cold case trail of Anthony Stefani. Jones risks his life in a tense confrontation with the gang. The answer to the Hamilton murder yields the secret of the disappearance of Anthony Stefani.
A collision of Lark Larsen’s new boat with “the Maintenance Free” in Hamilton Bay leads to the murder of local handyman Webster Howard. Lark hires an intelligence operative, Detective Clyde Hooper whose antics annoy and frustrate Matthias Jones’s investigation of the murder. Cocoa Stefani falls in love with a beautiful but innocent brunette, Janet Boudreaux, but J.B. soon becomes a Jones suspect. Trooper Banastre O’Connell appears to have been romantically involved with the overspending Mabel Howard, Webster’s wife. In the middle of the investigation is Reverend John Paul Bricker and” his church.” From a bar on Cape Cod Jones and Cocoa track the killer, while shadowed by Clyde Hooper and his helper, the ever-bumbling Bucky Driscoll.
Mathias Jones’s longtime friend Leo Crowley is found dead under a concrete foundation at the Applegate Development in Hamilton, New Hampshire. Bonner Development’s unsavory owner Bobby Bonner becomes an immediate suspect because of his activities around the time of Leo’s murder. The belligerent attitude of Bonner’s construction superintendent Scott Gleason begins confronting Jones and Cocoa Stefani as they delve into the murder. Dennis Cruchek, who lured Leo out to the site, has disappeared and Kim Rose, a tall blonde seemingly is deeply involved in the development. Watching over the development is the pugnacious Red Kroc a Bonner worker on the site who will instantly pick a fight with anyone. As always District Attorney Herbert Lane tries to block Jones's efforts. Jones finds love with his friend Frannie McShane but needs counseling from Father Gallagher when fate takes a turn for the worse.
Science Fiction
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OUTER SPACE
Science Fiction
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OUTER SPACE
Galactic Command
Fitton's Galactic Command Series. Voyage 24. Join Commander John Ross and the crew of ESS-14, after the Antarian War, to a planet bordering a nebula on the edge of the galaxy. Ross chases a derelict ESS Commander and his Antarian conspirator. Beyond the Nebula is an enclosed solar system, controlled by omnipotent life forms that desire a cataclysmic future for Galactic Command.
Commander John Ross leaves with his first officer Lindy for down time with his family on the resort starship Earthstar. Ross dreads the arrival of his cold and calculating Intelligentsia father, John Ross, Sr. who was away during Ross’s childhood working for the Command intelligence service. His brother’s ship is hijacked with intense tug drag beams to the planet Scaeva Tengal. Ross and Lindy appropriate a hotel ship but are also taken to Scaeva Tengal by the tug drag beams. They are prisoners of the Sol Domain. Sol is a Cyvac, a human whose neurological pathways have merged with advance nanocircuits. Cyvacs are programmed and follow order. Human destiny and aspirations are stripped away. Such beings are the result of a runaway Command project call the Pegasus-Merisheli. As Lindy and his family face revacing at Sol City, Ross escapes to the Heartland with his father, gaining a closer bond as they search for the director of the Pegasus-Merisheli Project, Dr. Tsiolkovsky. After encountering a divergent religious order called the Elias Sect, Ross and his father reenter Sol City for a final show down with Sol. But Sol has joined forces with Ross’s defeated enemy from the Antarian War, Rafac and a rogue Command ESS commander Jack Bragg. Using the revacing technology they have taken over ESS ships, including Ross’s own vessel to avenge the Antarian loss to Command during the war. All of Command is threaded unless Sol and Rafec are stopped
Harry Cobb Intra-Solar System Investigator
Harry Cobb Intra-Solar System Investigator
Harry Cobb: An Inner Solar System Private Investigator. Journey to Mars with Intra-solar system investigator, Harry Cobb. Cobb wants answers when a potential client is murdered in the Martian desert. He is hindered by the powerful Turcotte family and suspects one of their employees. Aided by his investigative team, Cobb believes his old love could be the killer and he travels to her space colony to find the truth.
Aboard a space cruise liner with a young woman named Angelique, Harry Cobb is receives an emergency call from his old friend Mark Belkin that his wife Jenna has been murdered in a tracer explosion on Neptune's moon, Triton. Cobb embarks for Triton, but is kidnapped and almost killed in deep space.He follows the murder trail through Station 32 on Triton encountering the powerful Lovinski Cartel and Buck Wiley, a wacky local inspector. Yet, someone is still trying to kill him. Only on Olympus Mons on Mars does he find answers with the help of Angelique.With the entire Intra Solar System Investigative Bureau descending upon him he solves the crime in the Ice Mountains on Triton.
Kron Man: Mega Human Good Guy
Kron Man: Mega Human Good Guy
Just returned from the Air Force, Randy Wilson uses his mechanic’s skills at Eddie’s Quick Fix Garage in Camden Bay, New York. Randy’s sister is harassed by the nefarious Junior Janus, a spoiled rich kid dabbling in criminal activities even murder. After a beating by Junior’s security men, Randy returns home. But that evening he encounters a mysterious force that causes him to have no recollection of the next two days of his life. The quirky and annoying Eddie Conover, owner of Eddie’s garage, witnesses Randy turning into a bulky blue creature as he leaps to the top of the garage. Randy’s detective friend, also observing Randy’s incredible speed and strength calls Colonel Briggs of a special division of the Air Force. After being shot in public view with no ill effects Randy is brought by Briggs for observation at a secret location. Assisted by Lieutenant Fogarty, an attractive blonde navy doctor, Randy is placed under hypnosis. The truth of the lost two days and the reality of Kron Man comes forth. Randy is returned to Camden Bay where he confronts Junior Janus and the heinous plot to kill the president.
Tom Loftus was banished from all intelligence work because his mentor, running for president died in a prodigious boat explosion. Now his old boss is calling Captain Loftus back into action. But going back into action means seeing his lost love from years ago. In the shadows are beings not of this world. In a magnificent odyssey Tom Loftus and Zach cross the Intergalactic Passageway connecting earth with the planets of humanity's origin. Awaiting them are other worlds, vast armies, and Sard, the Vargut Emnas now the leader of the Creod Realm.
Tom Loftus was banished from all intelligence work because his mentor, running for president died in a prodigious boat explosion. Now his old boss is calling Captain Loftus back into action. But going back into action means seeing his lost love from years ago. In the shadows are beings not of this world. In a magnificent odyssey Tom Loftus and Zach cross the Intergalactic Passageway connecting earth with the planets of humanity's origin. Awaiting them are other worlds, vast armies, and Sard, the Vargut Emnas now the leader of the Creod Realm.
The House Series Mysteries
The House Series Mysteries
"Fear begins when the lights go out in a house where you're all alone."
Mattie Summers is caught in the throes of an abusive marriage. A gentle, sensitive soul, Mattie separates from her husband John after physical and emotional turmoil. She retreats to Maine on vacation, exchanging her Arizona home for a 19th century house on rocky cliffs overlooking the Atlantic. Alone and five miles from the town of Rexford, Mattie is harassed by eerie phone calls on the old rotary dial phone. McCabe, owner and manager of many local properties, helps Mattie with her broken down rental car and with problems around the Exchange House. McCabe takes Mattie out on a date but she finds evidence that her estranged husband is in the area. A pony tailed and weird mechanic stalks her. As a fierce storm hits the area, someone on the property cuts the phone wires and Mattie is forced to flee for her life. Not until the final moments with her life in the balance does the identity of the assailant become evident.
Mary Ellen brings her children on the boat to Sabines Island. Through the binoculars, she is stunned to see the orange Mustang in her beach house driveway. Her husband Tony is alone painting the house and the car belongs to a twenty-three-year-old provocative woman, Su Lee. Kel, a retired police officer helps her investigate the mischief. Su Lee’s presence to three deaths and then a fourth, prompts Kel to unravel her background. Mary Ellen finds herself alone in the beach house to face a possible killer as she fights for her own life.
Framed
Framed
"Ambition, lust, murder, and arrogance."
Ambition, lust, murder, and arrogance. Loser Gordon Butts, recently fired at a dead-end job, happens upon a new job opportunity, where he cons his way through an interview with the company president, Walter Thornton. Butts claws his way to the top, removing all obstacles in his path. But ambition, lust, murder, and arrogance all have a stated price. Butts’s outlandish and reckless behavior demands eternal justice. And justice is most assuredly served!
Adventure and Intrigue
Adventure and Intrigue
Adventure and Intrigue Link
A seasoned reporter, Roy Garrison is drawn to the California high desert by a local woman's bizarre claim of weird happenings on the state highway. Garrison is soon fleeing for this life as he pursues the lead, and soon finds himself trapped within the machinations of the Defense Security Agency. Across the country in Florida a couple falls into the same project but from another angle. On the run with an old friend, Garrison links up with the Florida couple. The intense espionage, double-crossing and government overthrow swirls into an unexpected finale, leaving behind a wake of death and destruction.
Rekindled Romance
Rekindled Romance
Rekinded Romance Link.
Alan Sacket is about to be promoted to Vice President of sales for Lamberts, a mega store chain. Despite his large sales increase, Sackett is fired as the stock market plummets in 2008. Alan Sackett’s huge salary had supported his burgeoning debts. His debt swells with his income gone and payments due on his hotel suite, several vehicles, a six-figure boat, and mountain condo. He makes a deal with a notorious loan shark, Roscoe, to minimize his debt while he looks for work.
Alan flies to Barclay Idaho, where he spent a summer at age ten, to sell his late aunt’s general store. He meets Soonie, his ten-year-old friend from that summer. Soonie’s situation and Alan’s love for her and the small-town clash with opposing forces. His plan involves the town, Soonie and Roscoe’s demand for the entire loan.
21st Century Poetic License
Fitton's Freebies
Fitton's Freebies
A detailed and expansive site dedicated to the assassination of the 35th President of the United States and the reasons behind the assassination..
Robert P. Fitton provides commentary on his books, complete with full audio performance of each book.
Robert P. Fitton provides commentary on his books, complete with full audio performance of each book.
For your reading and listening pleasure.
For your reading and listening pleasure.