Final Voyage

Fowler, Wade

CreateSpace Independent Publis

John Franklin Kincaid clocks out at 4 PM on Thursday, August 27, 1953, after his shift at New York Shipbuilding Corporation's sprawling shipyard in Camden, New Jersey, never to be seen or heard from again.
A little more than a decade later, a little girl is assailed by a terrible recurring nightmare. She dreams she is a man, buried alive in a dark compartment in the bowels of a ship under construction.
On November 16, 1963, President Kennedy helicopters to that ship, now a US Naval vessel called the USS Compass Island, as it steams off the coast of Florida to witness the firing of a Polaris missile clandestinely targeting Cuba's Fidel Castro. 
And so topple the first dominoes in a chain of events leading inexorably to the president's assassination one week later in Dallas, Texas. 
Who killed JFK -- the president and shipyard worker? The answers abide on the Compass Island as the old ship casts off on its final voyage to the scrap yard in October of 2003 with descendants of John Franklin Kincaid on board and determined to solve not one, but two murder mysteries.

The Compass Island Incident: November 1963

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Milford House Press

Six-foot-seven-inch ex-cop Suds Ferguson is a big man with an even bigger problem. He is a prime suspect in a string of murders that begins when a private investigator is crushed under a skid of beer on the loading dock of Hop Central Craft Brewery where Suds works as director of security. Suds's ex-wife, Evie, is chief of the local police force. Still stinging from Suds's spectacular infidelity, captured on tape in the evidence room of the police department, Evie relishes the chance to throw her ex-husband in jail on a murder rap as people close to the case keep dying under the influence of beer - an assistant brewer, overcome by CO2 spewing from an open-tank fermenter, a lawyer, drowned in a beer bath, and the promiscuous wife of the brewery's owner, shot dead in the head with Suds's personal handgun, a Walther PPK.Suds is a suspect with an airtight alibi, having crawled back into Evie's heart and into her bed. They join forces to unmask who-done-it and rebuild their relationship which was destroyed by Suds's infidelity and the cancer death of their five-year-old son.

Death by Beer

Humor & Satire

Who hated Christy Henshaw enough to shoot her in the throat with an arrow, slash her corpse with hundreds of crisscrossing wounds and deposit her naked body in Roanoke Sound? The answer is no mystery to an immortal man named John Savage, whose gift and whose curse is to recognize the dead among the living. In Henshaw's murder, Savage divines the echoes of the ancient crime that claimed the life of his soul mate, Mary Colman, one of Sir Walter Raleigh's famous lost colonists. Savage chases Mary, and her murderer, a Native American named Wanchese, across the pages of history. He finds them, in various incarnations, among Blackbeard's brigands, on a Civil War battlefield and on modern day Roanoke Island where he forsakes his hatred of Wanchese and offers up his life on the altar of love. The First Ambassador is a love story, a modern-day murder mystery, and a work of historical fiction that offers a plausible, first-person account of the fate of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony of 1587.

The First Ambassador: Confessions of a 440-Year-Old Man

As journeyman journalist Revere Polk investigates the 40-year-old murder of his grand greatuncle, Jacob Wissler Addison, a cold case suddenly comes to a full boil. What did Uncle Jake's top secret, but ill-fated, mission to Tokyo in August of 1945 have to do with a modern-day plot to assassinate the president of the United States? And was the atom bombing of Japan really necessary? The answers await in "Rising Sun Descending."

Rising Sun Descending

Sunbury Press, Inc.