{"id":4203,"date":"2020-07-21T20:41:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T20:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=4203"},"modified":"2020-07-21T20:43:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T20:43:45","slug":"cliff-knowles-mysteries-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/cliff-knowles-mysteries-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Knowles Mysteries &#8211; free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you know by now that I write the Cliff Knowles Mysteries and that they can be downloaded free from my <a href=\"https:\/\/cliffknowles.ackgame.com\/\">Cliff Knowles<\/a> website. I recently checked the logs and found that they have been downloaded more than 13,000 times since last April when I first made them free. Here&#8217;s a graph of how many downloads there have been. The books are in chronological order.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4201 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/image001-500x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/image001-500x300.png 500w, https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/image001-624x374.png 624w, https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/image001.png 755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think the reason <em>Cold Case<\/em> doesn&#8217;t have so many is because it was published only six months ago, well after I first publicized the fact all the Cliff Knowles books are freely available. I think a lot of people downloaded them all at that time. So if you didn&#8217;t get the word, feel free to add <em>Cold Case<\/em> to your collection now. I hope to have another one out before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The graph does not include sales or free promotional downloads from Amazon. Also, <em>The Cryptic Crossword Caper<\/em> is a cozy mystery and not part of the Cliff Knowles series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you know by now that I write the Cliff Knowles Mysteries and that they can be downloaded free from my Cliff Knowles website. I recently checked the logs and found that they have been downloaded more than 13,000 times since last April when I first made them free. 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