The book is a mystery story and memoir of a family, the Pecords, who vanished from their home, the last remote stop on the authors paper route, about 50ft from the Connecticut River one Friday evening, early fall,1959. Instead of calling the police he called two buddies to do their own investigation and nearly got killed. The author allows the reader to peer into the 50's era through the use of flashbacks that he incurred during a run for his life.. Because of a sworn oath, he was unable to tell the story until now. As a coincidence, a relatively new college Goodwin College purchased the missing family's home last summer and invited the author to tour the home after 53yrs. They also shared with him, that the home was part of a ferry service set up by Samuel Colt(Colt45) and a was a home that he lived in for awhile.