Everyone who enjoys unravelling complex true-crime mysteries should read the book. Bill was right after all, but I can’t apologize for my skepticism: The grand old man died in 1994 at the age of 89.Įveryone who has a connection to the times and the place should read Deep Water. Sheldon confirms it all, at least to my satisfaction. Darn, how I wish now that I could apologize to Bill. To say I was skeptical is a severe understatement, but now comes Ken Sheldon’s thoroughly researched and masterful book about the very times, the place, the lights, and the murder itself: Deep Water, Down East Books, Lanham, MD 2022. He also said, “they murdered a doctor named William Dean in Jaffrey.” German spies? Flashing coded signal lights? In 1918? In remote and rural New Hampshire? Many many miles from, well, anything, certainly anything of military or industrial significance? “Right, Bill,” I thought. My father-in-law, who was born in south-western New Hampshire in 1905 and who well-remembered the First World War, he was a teenager, used to regale me with tales of the Kaiser’s spies flashing lights on Mount Monadnock, the dominant physical landmark in the area.
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