HE HAD TO SOLVE HIS OWN MURDER William Brenton was a newlywed, happy and healthy and embarked on a new life with his wife, Alice. But on Christmas Eve at his own party, Brenton feels ill. He goes upstairs, lies down on his bed . . . And wakes up dead. Floating above the scene he sees it all. His dear wife discovering his dead body the next morning, her horror and grief -- the household in uproar. . . . And then a fellow named Ferris makes his acquaintance. You're in a different world, a better world, so don't look back, the man tells him. But then the police come. William Brenton had died of a morphine overdose, and his wife is accused of the murder. Brenton knows what he must do, even from the world beyond. FIND OUT THE TRUTH! With the help of a hard-boiled Chicago newsman and the ghost of a famous French detective, William Brenton searches for the truth that will set his wife free. But can his soul deal with what he finds?

Author Biography

Robert Barr (1849 - 1912) was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1881 Barr decided to "vamoose the ranch," as he stated, and relocated to London, to establish there the weekly English edition of the Detroit Free Press. In 1892 he founded the magazine The Idler, choosing Jerome K. Jerome as his collaborator (wanting, as Jerome said, "a popular name"). He retired from its co-editorship in 1895. In London of the 1890s Barr became a more prolific author-publishing a book a year-and was familiar with many of the best-selling authors of his day, including Bret Harte and Stephen Crane. Most of his literary output was of the crime genre, then quite in vogue.