The Poor Farm

by Dov Silverman

Overview

An action-packed mystery, elderly love and ghost story (157 pages)
A 1930s Poor Farm in Justice County, Missouri, bought by Alice and Leroy Griggs in 2009, is taken over by drug lords and jealously guarded by the ghosts of Blacks who were wards of the state during the Great Depression of the 1930's.

Alice and Leroy Griggs believe themselves secure in the last economic venture of their lives. They are active, hard-working seventy-year-olds, still deeply in love.

Alice and Leroy buy the abandoned Poor Farm to plant Christmas trees. Tilling the soil together, they find bones of murdered Blacks from the time of the Great Depression. Along with the skeletons, they uncover spirits from the nether world.

Corruption, past and present in Justice County, finds Alice and Leroy. The two are helped by Jeremiah, leader of the ghosts, to join with members of the First Baptist Church of Wilson to fight the White Angel. And the drug dealers. The descendants of pioneers who freed the prairies and plains of Indians, Commancheros and Renegades, rally under Leroy's leadership to battle against trained killers.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044249721
Publisher:	Dov Silverman
Publication date:	01/12/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	170 KB

About the Author

Dov (Robert Joseph) Silverman

My Father (The Teacher) has left us 20/1/2021.

He asked that I write "המורה" (The Teacher) on his grave. Of all the many things he did in life, this is how he wanted to be remembered.

These included –
* US Marine Sergeant under heavy fire in Korea
* Long Island Railroad Conductor
* Auctioneer of many interesting items for the NY Police department
* Teacher in the holy city of Safed
* Singer/entertainer during the Yom Kippur war with a group of Safed students
* High school principal
* Supervisor of English teachers in the Galilea, Israel
* City Councilman
* Bestselling novelist - https://dov-silverman.com/books-2/
* Volunteer bowls instructor for the blind - https://magazine.esra.org.il/esramagazine/look-into-it/our-authors/dovsilverman.html
* and more… https://dov-silverman.com/about/

He published over 40 novels and short stories and had 5 books on the best seller's list in England.

For me he was "Da", a very special man who encouraged me to do many things.

He is survived by me, his granddaughters Loriel Sher and Anav Youlevich and Shira, Bar and Ya-ara. He had a son Jeffrey – a very handsome basketball player and all around good guy. He had a wife of over 50 years (my mother) who he loved very much – Janet Silverman – now they are together.

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Born in Brooklyn, New York, Dov Silverman served as a U.S. Marine in the Korean War, worked as a Long Island railroad conductor, been an auctioneer, and even established the Autar Microfilm Service. While working so hard on the railroad, he earned his high school diploma and went on to graduate from Stony Brook University, Long Island, New York, cum laude, at the age of 39. He and his family settled in Safed, Israel in 1972.

He credited a spiritual meeting with God and a Tzaddik (righteous man), Jules Rubinstein, in the Brentwood (New York) Jewish Center, with setting him on the path of study, religious involvement and settlement in Israel.

His novel, FALL OF THE SHOGUN, appeared on the London Times Best-Seller List and has been published in multiple languages. He also won a 1988 Suntory Mystery Fiction Award, Japan, for REVENGE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDS.