Duplicates - Softcover

McCall, Lacy R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403343977 ISBN 13: 9781403343970

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2002

Synopsis

OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI, 1957: Reaching the top of his profession, lawyer Robert Andrews Winslow wins the triple murder/rape trial of black man Otis Lee Williams, but less than a year later, Otis Lee is executed for a similar crime. Guilt-ridden for not helping save Otis Lee and scorned for helping in the first trial, Winslow's slide begins. Alone, broke and usually drunk, he leaves Mississippi and his profession.OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI, 1991:Down and out, Winslow has no place left to go but home to the small bungalow on General's Road outside Oxford, his meager inheritance. Now a writer, he's given two files, which might contain a desperately needed story, and musters himself for a last try to salvage his life. He drags his weary, sedentary and abused body along dusty back roads where he encounters Mississippi Delta families who share the land, wealth and a special desire to conceal secrets long-buried in the rich black soil.Constantly in danger and aided by friends whose motives he doubts, Winslow pieces together the story hinted in two autopsy files: Rosemary Thompson - Antigua, Raymond Thompson - Los Angeles. The twins died almost the same time at age thirty-two, thousands of miles apart, both naked in bed. The dead twins are the story but when Rob discovers the other DUPLICATES, he begins to realize the connection to himself, his past... and his downfall.A few secrets remaining, the murder of his black friend Hook Todd forces Rob Winslow back into to the courtroom in defense of another innocent man. Manipulating the justice system he once loved, Winslow is able to solve six crimes committed over seventy-five years, including his own murder by a so-called crazy man who isn't crazy at all.

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About the Author

LACY McCALL was born in 1937 in North Mississippi at a time when there were still few paved secondary roads and electricity hadn't made its way beyond the towns. The rural South had changed little since the Civil War.This was a place where water came from a cistern, light from a coal oil lamp and warmth on cold nights from the backlog, which usually burned out about daylight. Vegetables came from the garden, watermelons from the patch and money from cotton. Strong recollections aside, and as strange as it might seem, Lacy McCall finds himself at home in cyberspace.He attended high school in Memphis, college at Auburn University, Memphis University and finally Huntingdon College where he received a liberal arts education, which included an abundance of religion, history and philosophy.In 1963, he became registered as an architect and established his own design firm in Montgomery, Alabama. Since, he has designed projects for business and the military as far west as Elephant Butte, New Mexico, and as far south as Key West. Besides a fascination with Southern history, hobbies include computer programming, amateur radio and sailing.In the late eighties, after writing a column for a technical journal, he began his first novel. Devoted to learning the craft, he has studied fiction writing, participated with writers' groups and attended conferences. Most recently, this included the Seaside/FIU Writers' Conference headed by Les Standiford.Work includes several suspense novels, a futuristic saga set in 2020, a Western series set in the 1850's and a humorous mystery series about a Southern good old boy, who can't stay out of trouble. Samples of his work can be seen on Lacy McCall's website at www.lacymccall.com.Lacy McCall and his wife, Anne, have one son, two daughters and six grandchildren. They divide their time between a homes at Seagrove Beach, Florida, and Pensacola, Florida, where his architectural practice still flourishes.

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403343977
• ISBN 13: 9781403343970
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 436