A spirited rifle shooting contest and a horse race are the highlights of the Bella County fair, 1929. Victor Stuart and John Dow are in heated competition with each other as they try to impress Julia Vanderkamp. This animosity is fueled by criminal interests afoot in the background. When things go a muck a lynch mob is formed and John Dow is running for his life. Will philosopher Jefferson John Brown (Estate Steward and amateur detective) be able to solve the case? Time is running out.
Michael Boylan (Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Chicago: M.A. English Literature, University of Chicago) is Professor of Philosophy at Marymount University. Boylan is the author of 31 books and over 130 Scholarly and popular articles on topics ranging from Philosophy to Literature.
Boylan's latest Philosophy books are Natural Rights: A Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press/September 2014) and The Origins of Ancient Greek Science (London: Routledge/ May 2015). His recent novels are, Rainbow Curve (2014), To the Promised Land (2015), Naked Reverse (2016), and Georgia: A Trilogy--Part One (2016) & Georgia: A Trilogy--Part Two (2017).