Ethan Holmes

Author of The Keystone, Earth’s Blood
and A Multi-Pack of Brain Flakes

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Someone is knocking off the residents of The Keystone but Violetta Carbona, head of the board of directors of The Keystone Hotel, wants to keep this cash cow up and running. Once a grande dame of hotels in North Scranton, Pennsylvania servicing high society traveling on the Lackawanna/Reading Rail Line, The Keystone is now a dilapidated, run-down home to the cast-offs of society. State-sponsored recovering drug, alcohol and mental patients live side by side with senior citizens who have chosen life at The Keystone over a nursing home.

The feeling around Scranton is; if you go to live at The Keystone, you're supposed to die at The Keystone, so no one thinks anything unusual is going on when bird-caging, riding the gargoyle, bodies in the elevator and drug overdoses start claiming some of the residents.

Private Detective Titus Kofi is originally brought in to investigate suspected employee theft. His job duties change drastically when the ever-suspicious and manipulative Ms. Carbona wants him to do just enough to get Pennsylvania State inspectors off her back and keep the money flowing.

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