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Murder Impossible
When Elizabeth Peach Poindexter, septuagenarian and local sleuth in her small Georgia hometown, was diagnosed with breast cancer, she, accompanied by her identical twin sister, Dr. Mary Peach, traveled to Augusta for her treatments. Upon arrival, they soon settled into a B & B that had once been a colonial plantation mansion. Little did the sisters know that soon they would be involved in the mysterious goings-on in this grand old house. First there was the lady ghost, apparently the wife of the first owner. Then there were the curious seemingly identical deaths of cancer patients behind bolted doors.
The latest death occurs shortly after the sisters arrive. This precipitates the arrival of the cousin of the deceased who says the deceased’s ghost had told her that he was murdered. Claiming to be a medium, she has come seeking justice, beginning by having a séance. That night she is accosted by the lady ghost and was almost smothered—or so she says.
One of Elizabeth’s and Mary’s favorite fellow inmates of Magnolia Hall is William Denver—a tall, sophisticated, black gentleman—a retired lawyer from Rochester, New York. He is not a cancer patient but a genealogist working on his family history. He thinks that the original owners might have given aid to some of his slave ancestors. Imagine his surprise when the sisters’ dippy, octogenarian cousin-by-marriage, Felicity Peach, shows up and insists that not only did her family once own his family, but that she and Denver are probably cousins.
As her body weakens from the treatments, Elizabeth keeps her mind alert by trying to solve the mysteries of the old mansion, mysteries that began more than a hundred years ago with the Johnson family and the building of the mansion. She’s especially intrigued by the locked-door mysteries. Slowly, Elizabeth begins to think that the only reasonable solution to all these deaths is that maybe ghosts can kill.
The latest death occurs shortly after the sisters arrive. This precipitates the arrival of the cousin of the deceased who says the deceased’s ghost had told her that he was murdered. Claiming to be a medium, she has come seeking justice, beginning by having a séance. That night she is accosted by the lady ghost and was almost smothered—or so she says.
One of Elizabeth’s and Mary’s favorite fellow inmates of Magnolia Hall is William Denver—a tall, sophisticated, black gentleman—a retired lawyer from Rochester, New York. He is not a cancer patient but a genealogist working on his family history. He thinks that the original owners might have given aid to some of his slave ancestors. Imagine his surprise when the sisters’ dippy, octogenarian cousin-by-marriage, Felicity Peach, shows up and insists that not only did her family once own his family, but that she and Denver are probably cousins.
As her body weakens from the treatments, Elizabeth keeps her mind alert by trying to solve the mysteries of the old mansion, mysteries that began more than a hundred years ago with the Johnson family and the building of the mansion. She’s especially intrigued by the locked-door mysteries. Slowly, Elizabeth begins to think that the only reasonable solution to all these deaths is that maybe ghosts can kill.
236 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 3, 2012
About the author
Sharron Martin
9 books1 followerIrish born New Zealander, Sharron Martin lives with her husband, three teenage children and menagerie of animals on the north shore of Auckland. Always an avid reader, she grew up on a diet rich in Irish literature and devoured every book she could get her hands on. Sharron earned a degree and a masters in Information Systems from Massey University and has spent most of her working life in the IT Industry. A keen writer, she published her first novel 'Discovering Orla' in June 2023.
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