Porter's Quest
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Eddie Porter, a professional gambler, arrived at the village of Fallston, North Carolina in 1930 with the rarest of commodities: money. He was there to investigate the prospect of buying a sprawling, run down tobacco farm. Eddie knew, at once, that he has found the place he had long been seeking. It was sound rather than site that told Eddie this. The people of Fallston had the exact same accent and voice inflections of the man he was seeking. It has taken Eddie a dozen years to find this place. After a week in Fallston, Eddie calmly bet the bulk of his fortune and the last ten years of his life on Fallston.
In June of 1940, Eddie Porter was found murdered in his home in Fallston.Ten year old Jubal Scott was the first to reach the scene. Jubal caught a glimpse of Eddies killer, before he, too was knocked unconscious and left for dead. Soon, the Sheriff of Green County, Jubals father Mason Scott and Eddie Porters daughter join forces to hunt for his killer. Months of sleuthing later, the trio have only a budding romance between Monica Porter and Mason Scott to show for their efforts. Tensions mount with each attempt on Jubals life. Finally, Monica discovers a letter from her father naming John Lofton, a local, as the man who killed his friend in France during World War I. Soon after Eddies murder, Lofton is the victim of an apparent suicide. Monica Porters says, Case Closed!
Mason Scott, however, remains unconvinced. The case reaches an exciting climax when Jubal Scott recognizes the real killers picture in a newspaper. Discover how Eddie Porters final corageous act of love changed his vengeful quest into a remarkable legacy of love.
William M Davenport
About The Author William Davenport spent his preteen years in a thinly populated rural area of North Carolina during The Great Depression. Because of failing health, both of Davenports parents became dependents rather than providers while the author was still in diapers. Thus, the onus of supporting Davenports large family of ten children fell upon his older siblings. The author, a frail, sickly child was accordingly sheltered, pampered and doted upon by neighbors, teachers and loving siblings. Those pseudo idyllic years and rustic setting provided the location and characters for Davenports first two novels. In 1940, the increasing need for medical services and jobs forced the Davenport family to relocate in a tough inner city neighborhood. The thirteen years old author was ill prepared to face the life style awaiting him there. The adventures and misadventures he enjoyed and endured on Railroad Street at the outset of World War II provide the real life setting and characters for There is a Way. After working for the Atlantic Coast Railroad and serving in the Air Force during the Korean War, the author used the G. I. Bill to pay for his college education. He graduated from East Carolina University in 1963. That same year, Davenport began a career as an aeronautical engineer at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. He retired from NASA in 1995. While writing as a hobby, several of Davenports articles were published in major magazines; including Readers Digest and Guideposts. After retirement, when the author was sure that his family wouldnt starve, he began to write novels. Dragons Die at Dawn published in 2000 was followed by Porters Quest in 2006. As in previous novels, the setting and characters for There is a Way are real. The rest is fiction.
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