Five children at play are visited daily by a strange woman in black, who disappears mysteriously when she reaches the doorstep....

The Union Army, heading south to suppress insurrection, is duped by a local farmer into traveling ten miles out of its way, while greatly outnumbered rebels escape to safety...

Wile on a hunting trip the President of the United States drops in at an isolate farmhouse and meets a little boy who bears the name of his greatest political enemy...

Scheduled to open on a tiny island, a traveling circus must figure out how to get a 2,774 punt elephant across the Chesapeake Bay...

These are just a few of the True Tales of the Eastern Shore, a storied little peninsula east of the Chesapeake, fervently Virginian despite being attached geographically to Maryland. 

This is Mariner's seventh book about his native Eastern Shore, and ocne again he combines careful research and good writing. Almost every corner of the Eastern Shore of Virginia has its own tale, and this book is further proof that Mariner is among the peninsula's best story-tellers.

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