Pulse Presents The Cobb Legacy, By J. Conrad Guest

Feb. 6, 2012 - PRLog -- Pulse is proud to announce the official publication of The Cobb Legacy, an intriguing murder mystery centered around baseball legend Ty Cobb and the shooting death of his father - by his own mother.

About The Book

Cagney Nowak is writing a novel around the 1905 shooting death of baseball legend Ty Cobb's father, William, by his mother a week before Ty was called up by the Detroit Tigers. Although she was acquitted by an all-male jury on the grounds that the incident was accidental, the townspeople of Royston, Georgia, thought otherwise. Gossip had it that Amanda Cobb, at age thirty-three - and twenty years her husband's junior - was having an affair and that William, having told her he was going out of town on business, returned to catch her with her lover. At her trial, the questions were never raised as to why she had locked her second story window on a hot August night, or why she'd shot twice - surely she knew, after firing the first barrel of her shotgun, at whom she was shooting? A boyhood friend of Ty's was first on the scene that night, claiming years later that he knew that Amanda had had a lover with her that night, and that he even knew who it was...

When Cagney begins to relive the night of the shooting in his dreams, more than a century later and in the guise of Amanda Cobb, he is led to discover his father's deepest secret. More than a mystery, The Cobb Legacy is the story of a man's efforts to connect with his dying father, a World War II veteran suffering from what today is known as Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, and to come to terms with his obsession over the Cobb legacy as well as his own adulterous affair and impending divorce, while doubting that love with an old friend can be his.

Apex Reviews has awarded The Cobb Legacy its highest rating of 5 stars, hailing the book as “...an eye-opening tale of drama, scandal, and intrigue highlighting the living, breathing history of a fatally-flawed, intrepid folk hero.”

For an enticing preview of The Cobb Legacy, visit The Pulse Studio to view its exciting book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/pulsepublishing.

The Cobb Legacy is available as a $2.99 digital download for Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and all eReaders, smart phones, and laptop and PC systems. The novel will be available in hardcover and paperback format in May 2012. For more information, please visit www.pulsepub.net.

About The Author
 
J. Conrad Guest is the author of Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings, for which he used his love and knowledge of baseball to complete, as well as One Hot January and January’s Thaw. Backstop was nominated as a 2010 Michigan Notable Book, while the Lewis Department of Humanities at the Illinois Institute of Technology adopted the title as required reading for one of their spring 2011 courses: Baseball: America's Literary Pastime.

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