Author: robertbrucestewart

In 1905, the great Henry James arrives in Northampton, Massachusetts, to deliver a lecture to the local literati. He is feted in a grand style—and so is the Englishman impersonating him.In the meantime, a vacationing Harry Reese has stumbled upon a body marinating in an abandoned canal bed. But rather than report the corpse, Harry decides to use it to distract his wife Emmie from her own literary … Emmie from her own literary ambitions. Then the body vanishes. Twice.These two plots, each sufficiently ludicrous in its own right, coalesce to produce a truly remarkable story, one that dares to…