This book details the emotional pendulum experienced by a grandson on a journey to solve a riddle, and being repeatedly shocked and dumbfounded by what he found.
This book chronicles the journey of discovery by a man who went on a quest to solve a mystery. Did his grandmother die the way he was told she had, or was she murdered? The rumor had plagued his family for almost four decades. Could the unthinkable be true, that his own grandfather might have been involved with the mysterious death of his grandmother?
Along the way in his multiyear odyssey, the author discovers his family roots, his family tree, and the disturbing secrets long buried by his family. He vividly portrays the life and culture of Paducah, Kentucky, East St. Louis, Illinois, and Okeechobee, Florida, in the 1910s through the 1970s. He displays a culture and dialect of a strong breed of people that lived in rural western Kentucky in the early 1900s. He discovers extreme violence, knife fights, gunfights, bigamy, racism, thievery, bootlegging, and long-lost siblings. He discovers secrets within military and government files, unknown mental illnesses, wife-beatings, and murders. He discovers his grandfather’s World War II emprise, and the surprises it revealed. He uncovers the secrets of Freemasonry, and how it may have been involved in his grandmother’s death. He uncovers many lies from many people, and lawlessness by some in his family. The story includes attempts at a belated exhumation and autopsy to finally solve the mystery once and for all. He finally brings together all the evidence, pieces of a bizarre mystery, never before assembled by his family, to solve the enigma of his grandmother’s death.
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This book details the emotional pendulum experienced by a grandson on a journey to solve a riddle, did his grandmother die the way he was told, or was she murdered? He is repeatedly shocked and dumbfounded by what he found.
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Review by OverMyDeadBody.com mystery reader's website
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PEEPEYES
By Dwain S. Tucker
Xlibris, Corp., March 26, 2011 ($19.99)
ISBN-10: 1456885421
ISBN-13: 978-1456885427
Reviewed by Cherie Jung
For nearly four decades, a rumor had dogged the author's family. Did his grandfather have something to do with his grandmother's death? Was she, in fact, murdered? Or did she die in the
way he had been told? PEEPEYES chronicles Mr. Tucker's search for answers.
The unraveling of the mystery surrounding Nell Tucker's death makes for fascinating reading. It's
not just a story about one family and what happened a long time ago. It's about a time and place in our history as a nation. Kudos to Mr. Tucker for beginning his quest to know the truth, or as much of it as he could uncover, regarding his grandmother's death and for continuing the quest even when
he wasn't sure he would find the answers he was lokking for or like the answers he found.
Reading PEEPEYES brought back memories of my own family's tainted history. We know that one of my distant uncles was hanged as a horse thief and that my great-great or maybe great-greatgreat
grandmother once hid Jesse James under the floor boards of her kitchen when the sheriff came a callin'. (But we don't know if she hid him willingly.)
I think most readers will find PEEPEYES mesmerizing and inspiring tale. It is a journey of
discovery.
In the author's own words, he describes the reason for this book. "I wanted to describe an individual
(myself) experiencing the discovery of how an extraordinary, bizarre mystery happened in a rather
normal, Midwest family."
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