A Bit of Nylon

About the Book

Ryan Collins is a single master cabinet maker who was not really looking for love, but love found him anyway at all of all places the local post office. His expertise in his trade was directly responsible for the discovery of a body in the barrow ditch beside the road that he traveled in returning home from delivering some cabinetry to a customer. His call to nine-one-one brought a couple of county deputy sheriff's as well as an ambulance. They discovered that every bone in the body was crushed, and there was an indentation in the ground where he landed, apparently being thrown out of a high flying aircraft. The whitish powder in his blood and on his clothes indicated a new form of anthrax, the origin completely unknown.

Ryan met a long time friend who was also single, and they became good friends, to marry a bit later. Betty was divorced by her former husband who gained custody of their only son to her despair. Just as they were retiring one evening the telephone rang long distance from Florida, and her former husband demanded thousands of dollars in child support. This brought to the forefront the fact that he was directly responsible for the four year old's care according to the court's decision. In an effort to regain custody of the boy, they were forced to go from Texas to Florida and let the courts there decide on the custody; the father needed the money to continue his drug habit. Ryan presented the information to his friend the local judge who was a good friend of a judge in Miami, so he relayed that information and requested aid for Betty's regaining custody of her son. The trial not only returned custody to the mother, but it also placed the druggy in prison for many years.

But what about the cadaver that Ryan discovered? How was it transported to this out of the way place on the edge of the desert? Throwing a body from the passenger's compartment was ruled out for obvious reasons. A short paragraph in a daily newspaper gave the neighbor of Sheriff Jones an idea which he followed through on. What was this solution and how did the federal officers become involved? Directly from the pen of the author will these and many other questions be answered as you read his solutions, including a rather surprise ending.

About the Author

R. Roy Simmons was born in small West Texas community of poor dry land farmer parents. They had a few milch cows, some swine, and horses for the plow. In nineteen thirty two they moved to New Mexican where Simmons began his education in the second grade and was a junior in high school when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy, spending almost two years aboard a service vessel mostly in the Pacific around the Panama Canal, Columbia, Ecuador, and the Galapagos Islands area. For a nineteen year old farm boy, this was actually a pleasure cruise in spite of the dangers of way. Returning home, he married and raised two children. he made their living as a construction worker, but he was always interested in the written word, reading books by Zane Gray, Clements, Defoe -- all of the authors that were available in a small town library. This peaked his interest in writing, but was much later that the desire really took hold on him. His love of writing continues today.