The Gibbs' Place Mystery

ISBN: 0741432013

Author: Baldwin, Richard D.

Condition: New

Product DescriptionA promising young painter, Hawkins Shortreed, and his friend, a gifted sculptor, happen upon an abandoned seaside farm. The stately Eighteenth Century farmhouse, a barn, an overgrown graveyard, a contending granite cliff and the surging ocean create strong illusions of past time and ghosts of past lives. How unsuspecting the artists are of the mystery and the danger attached to this idyllic property two and a quarter centuries before... mystery and danger which they stumble into.About the AuthorDoctor Baldwin a college and medical school student during the turbulent post WWII years, ruefully regarded the crafty designs of Americas merchant princes and their media stooges. Though medicine consumed his time and interest, the obvious schemes of rich men required only slight and skeptical attention to discern their intentional deviltry advancing the eternal class war. (To this day the Taft-Hartley law of 1947, renders labor unions impotent.) After illness forced his retirement in 1994, he contemplated a satirical delineation of the self-seeking types who strut and fret their hour upon the politic-media stage to swindle the publics taxes.