(Now available in paperback!)

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Fowl play on the Chesapeake Bay!

So you think Chesapeake Bay ducks have a dull life? Then you;ve never met Duckworth and his friends; not to mention the peanut butter and jelly fish or the alligator stone.
The seas are high and the stakes are higher as daring blockade runners risk the Union Navy's deadly ring of fire and steel.
One German POW in northern Canada has learned a secret that could change the course of the war and lead to a Nazi victory.
And he has just escaped.
Can he be stopped in time?

 

John's previous books:
Mt Holly Master Detective Tour! The Mt Holly Master Detective tour took place on September 22 and was attended by over 50 hearty souls who gamely trekked between the various sites in the 87 degree heat. A gaggle of EllisParker descendents were part of the crowd, and brought a scrap book filled with his old driver's licenses, Elks Club membership cards, and just about every other document that was part of his life. A good time was had by all and the proceeds went to the Mt Holly Library!
In Search of the American Sherlock Holmes: The story behind Master Detective
John's Appearance Schedule
Read what readers and reviewers are saying about Master Detective.

What is The Duckworth Project?
Check out The Duckworth Chronicles and find out
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MASTER DETECTIVE:
The Life and Crimes of Ellis Parker, America's Real-Life Sherlock Holmes

Fascinating people and    events you've probably never heard of
  Someone said truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to be believable and truth doesn't. That's why I write books based on true, but hard to believe events. The books deal with everything from a French invasion of Mexico during the Civil War to a Spanish Conquistador who became a Mayan war chief. They might be hard to believe, but they're based on things that really happened. Take a look at some of the unexpected corners of history............
Did a county detective solve the Crime of the Century?
 John's latest!
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Why your copy of Master Detective may become a collector's item!
Fighting submarines in the Canadian woods!
Confederate blockade runners in the Bahamas!

 

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It contains his blog entries.
(If you like that sort of thing.)
Flash!                   
 Master Detective goes international!

Kensington Publishing has just licensed Chinese rights for Master Detective to the Goodness PublishingHouse in Taiwan. A Chinese language edition of the book will be out within a year or so.
 
Master Detective is already available in the English language edition in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, New Zealand, Estonia, Norway,and the UK. More to follow.
(Here's what it looks like in Japan!)
(Here's what it looks like in Estonia.)
(Here's what it looks like in Norway.)
(Here's what it looks like in Taiwan.)
(Here's another Japanese site)
    And here's the translationof that page. It was done by a computer so it, shall we say, lacks precision!