William Barclay (a Police Investigator, but also Clark's friend), is labeling this death as an accidental drowning. The body of a young woman had just been pulled out of the Delaware River and the police need the Evening Bulletin readers’ help to identify her. At this stage of Clark’s life, he’s a respected crime reporter for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin – and on this particular April morning, Clark was unceremoniously roused from his slumber at five o’clock and escorted by a policeman to the city’s waterfront. Once readers finish the Foreword, they will turn the page and meet a much younger Edward Clark from 1869. Clark’s granddaughter, Isabel, has a deep-seated interest in the macabre (and other-worldly), so when she learned that her grandfather had personal experience with a ghostly murder she requested that he write his account down for posterity’s sake. Things Half In Shadow is fiction, yet, as I read, Edward Clark, the book's main character explained (via the Foreword) that this recounting is, in fact, truth. Finn has written this tale in the first person (a style that I sincerely enjoy) and I truly loved the manner in which he shared the story – using verbiage and mannerisms that made me feel as if I really was in a previous century. Having also noticed that Things Half In Shadow was 400 plus pages long, I certainly hoped that it would at least be an interesting read – and thankfully, it did not disappoint.įrom the very first paragraph of the Foreword, I was captivated. Yes, of course I'd read the book’s Amazon ‘about’ blurb, but that only seemed to make the book a bit more ‘mysterious’ and thereby more challenging to categorize into one specific genre.
I was uncertain what to expect when I agreed to read Things Half In Shadow by Alan Finn. Publisher: Gallery Books, A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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