The Elf Owl and Imagined Amenities: A Crime Story and List of Inventions to Make Everyday Life More Pleasant or Less Annoying

This is the story of the tragic adventures of Jay White, loving husband, father, and friend. Jay is the highly successfully inventor of ingenious gadgets and machines designed to make everyday life more pleasant or less annoying. He is a straight shooter who does not suffer fools gladly. Jay’s stubborn defiance to the preposterous, unethical demands of psychopathic twin brothers imperils the lives of Jay’s family and friends. After the reckless acts of the Wolf twins, the Wolf family matriarch and her murderous progeny destroys the people Jay loved and all of the good things in his life, Jay invents his own brand of justice by entombing the villains in a state of suspended animation. Was he guilty of murder? A photograph of an elf owl and a fingerprint on a blazer button lead a tenacious state policeman to team with an inquisitive sheriff who fabricates information for a search warrant. What they find creates moral and ethical dilemmas for the judicial system, and lands Jay in a mental hospital where he is later bullied into revealing his secret process to unscrupulous, enterprising staffers who use it to profit from euthanizing elderly people including defenseless mental patients. Jay is sent to a SuperMax where he is confined for over 20 years before he is allowed to return to the state mental hospital, demented and at death’s door. Over 100 ideas for patentable inventions are discussed and listed in the Appendix.