Shadows on the Swing ~ My Story
Shadows on the Swing
My Story
This story is based—loosely—on real events. I’ve chased this tale for more than fifty years, through yellowed newsprint, half-forgotten websites, and dead-end files.
Each time I sat down to tell it in my own fashion, I found myself writing the same book the original author had already written. This version lets me step out of those shadows and follow a detective’s trail into imagined territory.
The original account never answered the question, Who Dunnit? So I took my own shot at it. What you’ll find here is fiction: conclusions drawn from research—countless newspaper clippings, archived correspondence, and conversations with fellow writers—but the twists I chose belongs to this novel, not to history.
The truth, I suspect, still lies out there—
Just beyond the reach of any final chapter.
