Summer Street Business Owner Brings Magical Gumshoe Tale to Life With New Book

Aubuchon Hardware might be gone, but a few doors down on the Summer Street Plaza stands the home base for an aspiring local author and his growing franchise of magical murder mystery books.

Andrew Kirschbaum of 3 Trolls Games and Puzzles is hoping to gain some acclaim with “Monday and the Counterfeit Corpse,” the second novel in his series of stories about Zach Monday, a hardboiled detective who lives in a world of magic and urban noir flair.

A Chelmsford resident since 1977 and a Chelmsford High graduate, Kirschbaum believes being within the community helped here in his latest work.

“Chelmsford is a part of me, it affects everything I do,” he says. “It definitely impacted the book, but I’m not sure how.”

Kirschbaum has sold a few hundred copies of his first book “Monday and the Murdered Man,” and got stuck about 80 pages into an initial attempt at a sequel, leading to something of a change of pace with “Counterfeit Corpse” while keeping some of the original world in the first saga.

“It was different than I was expecting, but I am really pleased with the result,” he said. “It’s better than the first one, more focused and more fun.”

The book will become available on March 1 and Kirschbaum says he is already working on his third book, as well as more expansive space opera fantasy epic that will take place outside of the first two novels.

More information on Kirschbaum’s work is available at www.andrewkirschbaum.com and on his Amazon page.