Delaware Authors: William Francis

A novel based on the 1892 murder of Miss Katie Dugan and suicide of Louis DuPont.

Dr. Charles Sampson, a history professor at the University of Wyoming, returns to his boyhood home in Delaware to confront the suicide of a life-long friend and and high school English teacher Arthur Wilson. Instead of leaving a suicide note, Arthur codes the reason for his self destruction in a poem. Charles must unravel the clues, and in the process, he exhumes not only Artie's secret past, but the dark, unsavory and emotional details of his own childhood.