Murder On Old Mission - Softcover

FACT: In the summer of 1895, Woodruff Parmelee, the son of a well-to-do farmer on Old Mission Peninsula, was tried for the murder of Julia Curtis, his pregnant girlfriend. Parmelee's defense rested on his alibi supported by the testimony from his fifteen year old son.FICTION: These are the bare facts from which Lewis weaves his fictional version of this compelling story. His novel focuses on the son's dilemma. What is he himself was in love with the victim?

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Stephen Lewis now lives in a century old farmhouse on Old Mission Peninsula in northern Michigan. He is Professor of English Emeritus at Suffolk County Community College, Long Island, New York. Murder On Old Mission is his sixth novel.