Stories by Duncan Caldwell

Story:

A Murder, Bombing, and Trip to Neolithic Monuments (Webpage version)

Story:

The Drowning Client - Misadventures in the Search for a French Country Home (PDF)

Story:

The Drowning Client - Misadventures in the Search for a French Country Home (Webpage version)

Story:

A History of Old Nantucket: Iron rule with a Woman's Touch.

This is the English version of a chapter that I was asked to write for a book about whales. The main author was the courageous navigator Alain Bombard. Although the publishers told me they loved the manuscript when they received it, I was later informed that they were abandoning the project because of Jacques Chirac's rise to power when his conservative party beat President Mitterand's coalition, which included Ecologists. I was so naive at the time that the news that the firm was jettisoning the non-partisan book (which it had commissioned without paying an advance) just because the political winds had changed came as a revelation. I will never forget how shocked I was by the company's craven self-censorship and alacrity to fall into line.

Story:

Lifting the Curse of Glozel

Story:

Lifting the Curse of Glozel (pdf version)

Novel:

Two chapters from Sleeping Dogs

Novel:

Two chapters from Beyond Reprieve

Please contact me at caldwellnd(at)aol.com if you're interested in publishing my writing, including my novels, Beyond Reprieve and Sleeping Dogs.

Please click on the icons to the left of the titles to open stories about:

- my misadventures, which involved murders and bombings, while visiting dolmens,

- further mishaps while searching for a French country home,

- Keziah Coffin's iron rule over Nantucket and other surprising tales from its early history,

- and passages from my novels, Beyond Reprieve and Sleeping Dogs, which were inspired by real incidents.