Cast a Blue Shadow: An Ohio Amish Mystery

197 Pages·2003·0.8 MB·English

by  Gaus Paul L

Table of Contents

A PLUME BOOK
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright Page
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Epigraph

Chapter 1 - Saturday, November 2 Dawn, Holmes County, Ohio
Chapter 2 - The Night Before—Friday, November 1 6:00 P.M.
Chapter 3 - Friday, November 1 8:10 P.M.
Chapter 4 - Friday, November 1 8:30 P.M.
Chapter 5 - Friday, November 1 8:45 P.M.
Chapter 6 - Friday, November 1 8:50 P.M.
Chapter 7 - Friday, November 1 9:00 P.M.
Chapter 8 - Friday, November 1 9:20 P.M.
Chapter 9 - Saturday, November 2 7:30 A.M.
Chapter 10 - Saturday, November 2 8:00 A.M.
Chapter 11 - Saturday, November 2 8:35 A.M.
Chapter 12 - Saturday, November 2 8:50 A.M.
Chapter 13 - Saturday, November 2 8:55 A.M.
Chapter 14 - Saturday, November 2 8:58 A.M.
Chapter 15 - Saturday, November 2 9:15 A.M.
Chapter 16 - Saturday, November 2 9:35 A.M.
Chapter 17 - Saturday, November 2 9:45 A.M.
Chapter 18 - Saturday, November 2 9:45 A.M.
Chapter 19 - Saturday, November 2 10:20 A.M.
Chapter 20 - Saturday, November 2 10:30 A.M.
Chapter 21 - Saturday, November 2 10:35 A.M.
Chapter 22 - Saturday, November 2 10:50 A.M.
Chapter 23 - Saturday, November 2 11:00 A.M.
Chapter 24 - Saturday, November 2 11:20 A.M.
Chapter 25 - Saturday, November 2 11:45 A.M.
Chapter 26 - Saturday, November 2 11:50 A.M.
Chapter 27 - Saturday, November 2 Noon
Chapter 28 - Saturday, November 2 12:30 P.M.
Chapter 29 - Saturday, November 2 1:45 P.M.
Chapter 30 - Saturday, November 2 6:20 P.M.
Chapter 31 - Saturday, November 2 7:40 P.M.
Chapter 32 - Saturday, November 2 8:30 P.M.
Chapter 33 - Sunday, November 3 Noon
Chapter 34 - Sunday, November 3 1:00 P.M.
Chapter 35 - Sunday, November 3 1:20 P.M.
Chapter 36 - Sunday, November 3 2:30 P.M.
Chapter 37 - Sunday, November 3 4:45 P.M.
Chapter 38 - Sunday, November 3 5:00 P.M.
Chapter 39 - Sunday, November 3 5:15 P.M.
Chapter 40 - Sunday, November 3 5:25 P.M.
Chapter 41 - Sunday, November 3 7:15 P.M.
Chapter 42 - Sunday, November 3 9:30 P.M.
Chapter 43 - Sunday, November 3 11:20 P.M.
Chapter 44 - Monday, November 4 8:10 A.M.
Chapter 45 - Monday, November 4 10:15 A.M.
Chapter 46 - Monday, November 4 7:30 P.M.
Chapter 47 - Thursday, November 7 7:30 P.M.

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A PLUME BOOK
CAST A BLUE SHADOW
PAUL LOUIS GAUS lives with his wife, Madonna, in Wooster, Ohio, just a few
miles north of Holmes County, where the world’s largest and most varied
settlement of Amish and Mennonite people is found. His knowledge of the
culture of the “Plain People” stems from more than thirty years of extensive
exploration of the narrow blacktop roads and lesser gravel lanes of this pastoral
community, which includes several dozen sects of Anabaptists living closely
among the so-called English or Yankee non-Amish people of the county. Paul
lectures widely about the Amish people he has met and about the lifestyles,
culture, and religion of this remarkable community of Christian pacifists. He can
be found online at: www.plgaus.com. He also maintains a Web presence with
Mystery Writers of America: www.mysterywriters.org.

For Laura and Amy, and dedicated to my father, Robert L. Gaus, 1924-2002, one
of the quiet heroes of the twentieth century.
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Cast a blue shadow : an Ohio Amish mystery / P. L. Gaus.
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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
All of the characters in this novel are purely fictional, and any apparent
resemblance to people living or dead is coincidental. The Holmes County setting
for this story is authentic, but Millersburg College is fictional.
The recent sensational trial of an Amish midwife in Holmes County was not
used as a model for anything in the present story, and no similarities with, or
conclusions about, this trial or the people involved are intended.
The author especially wishes to thank Pastor Dean Troyer, Heyl Road Church
of Christ, Wooster, Ohio.
I Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
Some people, eager for money, have wandered from
the faith and pierced their hearts with many griefs.

I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the
Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
—E. B. White