The Publick House Historic Inn, Sturbridge, MA was the setting for The Friends of the Joshua Hyde Library 9th annual “Stewing Over Mysteries” dinner, Wednesday January 23, 2019. Good cheer and good fare were in abundance. The evening was an outstanding success as folks exchanged lively conversation with each other and a master storyteller. A sellout crowd of 80 people packed the Tap Room celebrating William “Bill” Martin and the release of his latest novel, “Bound for Glory.”
Friends President, Donna Englander, introduced the guest of honor as “king of the historical thriller.” Martin is a successful historical fiction writer with eleven published books. The principal protagonist, Harvard educated antiquarian, Peter Fallon, appears in six novels. The characters premier was in, “Back Bay”, a New York Times bestseller in 1979. Martin specializes in bringing American history to life with such novels as “Citizen Washington”, “The Lincoln Letter” and “The Lost Constitution”.
The newest, “Bound for Glory”, takes place in 1848 during the California gold rush. Readers join a group of Bostonian’s as they set sail for the Pacific coast, navigating around Cape Horn in South America to the goldfields of California. Martin said the novel is adapted from a screenplay he penned in 1974 titled “ The Mother Lode”. The screenplay won him a Hal Wallace Screen Writers Fellowship at the famed University of Southern California Film School. Martin, a Harvard graduate, completed his M.F.A. in 1976. Continue reading ““Stewing Over Mysteries” at the Publick House”
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