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THE MEISTERMANN FAMILY: THE DEVIL’S REVENGE

Introducing Buddy Burke
Connecticut State Marshall

By Peggy Jean Cramer
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A sincere, very special, thank you goes to Carl Reiner and AuthorHouse for launching my imagination for fiction writing. The adventure began in May 2013 when they selected my entry, Adolf Meistermann: The Devil’s Legacy, as the winner of their Novel Beginnings writing contest. Carl Reiner wrote the first chapter introducing two main characters, Adolf Meistermann and his son, Matt, laying the ground work for a murder. Since I did not expect to win, I ended the story about a half hour before the contest deadline, ran Spell Check, and turned it in. However, the characters have more of their story to tell. …show more content…

I want to thank the support system that encourages me to keep writing, proofreads my draft manuscripts, and supports my book signings. Because Carl Reiner wrote the forward for the first book, I did not get to acknowledge all those who helped me with the publishing of Adolf Meistermann: The Devil’s Legacy. Sheryl Haag and Carolyn Hallin proofread the pre-print manuscript and gave me valuable feedback. For both books, Judy Roberts and Hilda Roberts, neighbors and friends, corrected grammar and typos and gave constructive suggestions. Rose Ann Perry edited with a sharp eye for punctuation and sentence structure. And, thank you to my friends who sat with me at my signings, keeping me company and promoting my …show more content…

Matt started in the molten furnace division with the midnight to 8:00 o’clock shift, just as his father had done when he arrived from Germany as a young man. Over the next three years, Matt rotated through the all the departments learning the business from the ground up. It was a great learning experience he could not have received so quickly at any other place. Finally, there was an opening in the administration office, and Matt was moved to the Accounts Payable department. He met all the vendors that brought in raw materials. He negotiated better unit prices, mostly by economies of scale. Then he moved to Accounts Receivable and learned the distribution system to the end users before moving up to Vice President of

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