Robert J. Muller

Murder at Mount Vernon (The Founding Fathers Mysteries, #1) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Politics, murder, and mortal danger confront retired General George Washington as he considers whether to accept the presidency of the United States.

The General has retired to his farm, Mount Vernon, but he cannot escape the politics of his time. The new constitution requires a president, and no one doubts it must be him. Except himself.

Colonel David Humphreys, Washington's aide-de-camp in the war, has come for a protracted visit to his friend the General. He's working on his poetry and a biography of his benefactor while he enjoys the bucolic life in Virginia, but his aversion to enslavement distresses his New England sensibilities.

Colonel George Mason of Gunston Hall, a nearby plantation, is the General's principal political opponent in the area.

When the General and Colonel Humphreys find a murdered slave by the river, events take a darker turn. The General fears the event will give his political enemies ammunition to use against him, complicating his decision to accept the presidency.

As the official investigation proceeds, two things are clear. Colonel Mason and his allies believe they can charge the General with murder, and the General discovers that not all is well on his own plantation. Goods are missing, and he discovers growing problems with his enslaved workers. Probing these problems reveals connections to an effort by the British to stir up trouble in Alexandria and elsewhere in the former colonies.

To accept the presidency, Colonel Humphreys and the General must show he is innocent of the crime. As they investigate, they fall deeper into the political conflict of the day and find themselves in increasing personal danger. But the General must also confront a great moral decision-whether to free his slaves.

Murder at Mount Vernon is the first novel in the Founding Fathers series of historical mysteries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Poesys Associates
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781939386038
• Artikelnr.: 59743018

Autorenporträt

I stumbled into writing through technical documentation. I had just discovered the work of Robert B. Parker, the great detective novelist, and I wondered: could I write a detective story that helped somebody learn how to use regular expressions? It turned out I could, and that article was very popular. Years later, I had the opportunity to ghostwrite a technology book that conveyed database management system technology through a story about a nineteenth century farm ledger, which was a best seller. Why not inject technology into fiction?

Over the years, I developed many interests: science, technology, mathematics, ancient and modern history, archaeology, cooking, psychology, and classical literature. So many great writers, so many excellent books! I use the encyclopedia of knowledge I acquired over those many years to inform my fiction, written in the mystery, historical, and science fiction genres. I create alternate histories that upend the assumptions we make about our own history. I use language (ancient Egyptian and its hieroglyphs, slave dialect, and so on) to take people out of their own world and into somebody else's' world. I use historical characters to explore both their moral character and their actual role in history, writing about themes like civil rights, political compromise, public and moral duty, and slavery. I use science and technology to inject reality into mysteries, thrillers, and science fiction, both to inform the reader on the subject and to show how the science and technology affects the world in which we live, or in which we could live.

I discovered Jane Austen in graduate school and learned that a fine brush is often better than a huge canvas at conveying the relationships between people and the world in which they live. How the world works, how people construct it, how people live and die in it, and why they live the kinds of lives they do.

I live and work in San Francisco with my wife and illustrator, Mary L. Swanson.

You can connect with me through my Author Page at http://www.poesys.com.