Where’s Merrill?

A Genealogical Thriller

 

By

Gearóid O’Neary

 

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Smashwords Edition : Copyright 2013 Gearoid O’Neary

 

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Although this is a fact-based story, the names of the principal family characters have been changed in order to protect the privacy of any individuals with a relationship to the real-life people involved, these persons being deceased in the vast majority of cases. Any consequential resemblance between disguised characters and unassociated persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Certain other characters may be composites of inspirational figures, or entirely fictitious, for dramatic purposes.

 

 

Table of Contents


Prologue

Chapter I - Whos Merrill?

Chapter II - Taming The Tiger

Chapter III - The Family Man

Chapter IV - Missing Ancestry

Chapter V - Midwest Business

Chapter VI - Dark Clouds

Chapter VII - Tragic Endings

Chapter VIII - Financial Affairs

Chapter IX - Wedded Bliss

Chapter X - Forster Forefathers

Chapter XI - Irish Intuition

Chapter XII - Case Files

Chapter XIII - Case Review

Chapter XIV - The DC Connection

Chapter XV - Case Solved?

Chapter XVI - Horace Outed

Chapter XVII - Prohibition

Chapter XVIII - A Little Accident

Chapter XIX - Minnesota Madness

Chapter XX - Echo From The Past

Chapter XXI - Accidents Do Happen

Chapter XXII - Worth A Punt

Chapter XXIII - Happy Families

Chapter XXIV - They Seek Him There

Chapter XXV - Twin City Life

Chapter XXVI - Homing In

Chapter XXVII - Background Research

Chapter XXVIII - Mississippi Mud

Epilogue