"Phineas Fletcher is down-home fresh. I didn't want to stop reading. What happens next is always a surprise." - D.G. PHINEAS FLETCHER is a middle-aged widower living in Spencer's Mill, Ohio, in 1887, retired but bored and looking for excitement. We first met him as a minor character in the novel, "Teacups and Lies." In the sequel, "The Rippling Effect," he stumbled onto a new line of work: private investigator. The rush it gave him was...