Deadman's Float

by Robert Sugarman

A lovely summer morning in the Vermont college town of Kent. Retired academic Henrietta Brown has just taken her early morning swim to the raft in Lake Benson. After catching her breath, she dives in to head to shore and finds herself facing the drowned President of Kent College, fully dressed, wedged between the barrels under the raft. She informs the police so they can remove the body before the morning s swim classes. Henrietta, who as director of the College s Early Learning Center has unique experience with both the town and its rather exotic liberal arts college, finds herself involved in solving the mystery. Who killed President Kaplan? Few liked him, but who would kill him? Secrets are revealed as Henrietta works to solve the mystery.

249 pages, Paperback

First published August 8, 2014

About the author

Robert Sugarman is writing his second Henrietta Brown mystery. The first was DEADMAN'S FLOAT. His latest play, KAUFMAN'S BARBERSHOP, was produced by Shakespeare & Co. (Lenox, MA) in 2013. He was a member of the Playwrights and Directors Unit at Actors Studio in New York City and worked with director Joan Littlewood in London. For seventeen years he was chair of the Circus Area at the Popular Culture Association. He taught at State University of New York/Albany, Bennington College, Cazenovia College and Southern Vermont College. His non-mystery novel ANTIBES will be published by Puck Press in 2016.

Reviews

[K · Rating 4 out of 5]

A sweet engaging mystery, with an amateur sleuth main character who is essentially one of my favorite people in the entire world, Sally Sugarman. Familiar setting and characters aside, it is a nice fun light read worth buying to support an awesome lifetime writer who hasn't been published as much as he should. Can't wait for the next Henrietta Brown Mystery.