Ruby Wilbur, the 18-year-old daughter of a Goose Pond farming family, is missing. Sheriff Wilson has only a broken fragment of a tombstone and a red-stained ladies garment as evidence of a possible crime. He assumes that Ruby has been murdered. Additional pieces of the tombstone are needed to find her killer.
The Tombstone Puzzle is a historical fiction novel about 18th century Goose Pond, a once thriving Northeast Georgia community that was settled by Virginia and North Carolina tobacco growers because of its fertile soil. Its residents included Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery, George Mathews, and George Gilmer, both governors of Georgia. Also, Ben Taliaferro and David Meriwether who have Georgia counties named after them. Ultimately Goose Pond became a ghost community, lost in time. The only indication of its existence is a small road sign.
