ROCK HALL

About the Book

Frustrated over his failure to sell antiques in Betterton, a small town on the Chesapeake Bay, Mark Hopkins, a handsome, rich and bright 27-year old former SEAL, decides to become a private art dealer and buys a farm outside Rock Hall, near the Eastern Neck Island Wildlife Refuge. Two weeks later he discovers an important impressionist painting in an antiques store in Baltimore, which he buys for $10,000 and sells for $329,000.

His joy, however is short-lived when his father dies unexpectedly, forcing him to take over operation of his family’s steel mill in Baltimore. After the funeral, his death is ruled “by suspicious means.” A subsequent murder resolves everything, with at least two gorgeous women always competing for his love. The characters are strong, with a storyline that reads like a movie script.

About the Author

The author, born in Highlandtown, Southeast Baltimore, earned degrees from Washington College (All-American soccer goalie 1954 & 1955) and ORSORT, and owned Szymanski Gallery from 1968 to the present. After 50 years in Southern California, he relocated to the eastern shore of Maryland in 2002 and began writing BETTERTON and ROCK HALL, two regional novels about small fishing towns.