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Cape Car Blues

By Richard Hughes & Lavinia M. Hughes
Cape Car Blues by Richard Hughes & Lavinia M. Hughes digital book - Fable

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A small used car dealer tries to make ends meet from his dealership in tiny Truro, Massachusetts, population 2000. Truro is a beautiful beach community of sand dunes and ocean views.

 

Cape Car Blues is the story of how 6-year old Mikey Mayflower acts out with his pranks then eventually worms his way into the hearts of the used car staff, finding love and acceptance as they fill the role of "extra parents" for him.

 

The owner, Sam Oscar Shallow, is always trying to think up new schemes to make a profit, many of them ill-conceived and in bad taste. A bureaucratic pair of fish cops show up routinely with their overly officious antics and pester the locals with excessive regulation reminders.

 

An unusual test drive of an orange El Camino bedevils the dealership. A few New England Patriots players stop in and buy classic cars. One woman trades in her horse for a car. A few hapless criminals are in a hurry to buy the six cars they failed to purchase at the car auction.

 

Read Cape Car Blues and immerse yourself into a nostalgic 1975 summer when hope and laughter was in great supply.

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About Richard Hughes

Richard Hughes graduated from Massachusetts Maritime Academy with a B.S. in Marine Transportation, then obtained an M.S. from Lesley University. He operated a safety training center on Cape Cod with his wife & fellow author Lavinia M. Hughes. He wrote Deep Sea Decisions and the Cape Safety, Inc. - Danger Dogs Series—a collection of 5 novels detailing the exciting lives of a top-notch safety consulting firm based in Woods Hole, MA, employing actual technological stories from the news that his characters use to solve global problems.

Lavinia M. Hughes

Lavinia M. Hughes is the author of Enter Through the Bulkhead, the successor to the author’s first collection of paranormal short stories entitled Enter Through the Crawlspace. The Twilight Zone and the Alfred Hitchcock Hour are her inspiration for these mystical stories that feature drama and a human nature twist.

Her other books include An iGen Cookbook for the Unskilled, an instructional cookbook.

A native New Englander, she has also co-authored three novels—Newtucket IslandTraining Ship, and Cape Car Blues

She lives and writes with her husband and co-author Richard Hughes at their Cape Cod home in the seaside village of Waquoit, Massachusetts.

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