I'm jazzed to announce that Planet Mertz has published Death In Springtime, my noir detective novella set in 1953 Los Angeles! In a world without electricity. What if Ben Franklin had been electrocuted by that famous lightning bolt? What if Thomas Edison and Robert Fulton's experiments had led to their deaths? What if electricity and internal combustion were forbidden and civilization ran on a watchmaker's wind-up world of springs and gears? And what if a noir detective murd