Marshall Godwin Livres

Standing on a wharf in Port St. William, a small outport in Newfoundland, Uncle John and young Johnnie share stories from their lives as they watch the sun rise out of the ocean every Saturday morning. Uncle John, who is 86 years old when the story begins, tells tales about his encounters with women he loved throughout his life. Young Johnnie, 16 when the story begins, tells stories of his teenage and early adult life. The effects of Uncle John's past life on young Johnnie's current life bring their stories together as one tangled tale with repercussions no one expected.

Mary Jane was born, lived her life, and died on the south coast of Newfoundland. A life of tragedy. A life of poverty come riches. Husbands, children, lovers, and evil men. Mary Jane was a strong women who carried herself with pride and stood fast to protect and raise her children well above all else. Her early life was marked by a series of tragic losses. A woman of lesser metal would have been broken for a lifetime. But Mary Jane grieved, then rose from the tragedy, and married a wealthy business man. Then the rest of life ...

Charlie and Mary, at the end of the book Charlie Freake from Scilly Cove, decide to start a private investigator agency called Charlie and Mary: Private Eyes. This is the first book in a series that details the cases they work on and the trouble they get into. This first book, The Case of the Old Man with the Hat, tells of an early case they take on which is somewhat humorous, and then main case about a man who stole a winning lottery ticket, sewed it in the lining of his fedora, but then had it blown of his head by his brother wielding a shotgun. It goes from there and ends up down near the town of Trepassey with a truckload of something loaded on a boat and headed out to sea; likely to South America.