Recently deserted by his beloved Linda, a lonely, dissolute and strangely paranoid Sam Carpenter is writing his fifth crime novel, The Bronze Bull. And it isn't going well.He has grown attached to one of his characters, Peter Wishart, a dealer in stolen archaeological treasures and his intended murder victim. In order to type the sixth chapter and the obligatory murder, Sam drinks himself into a stupor and eventually passes out. But when he wakes, he finds himself in a very different Edinburgh from the one in which he fell asleep.When he meets a distraught archaeologist who just happens to be the partner of the fictional character murdered in his novel the night before, Sam realizes that his creative imaginings have turned into something very real. As the players in The Bronze Bull reveal more complications than he dreamed possible, Sam needs to identify the murderer if he is ever going to find out what happened to him and how he can get back to his own world in this absorbing mystery.Author Bio: ABOUT THE AUTHOR-Mark P. Henderson is an accomplished