Murder at Spoleto

Maurice is a high school teacher, assistant to the Editor of the Women’s Page of the local newspaper, lecturer, historian, and preservationist who has prepared audiovisual materials for science and produced multi-thousand person meetings worldwide. She met and married Leigh while they were at the College of Charleston. When he worked one year so she could complete her baccalaureate she agreed to reciprocate, not knowing that he intended to be a student until retirement. After earning his PhD (Pharmacology), MD (Johns Hopkins), and Internal Medicine Residency (Johns Hopkins and NIH) she put him to work. Leigh built three of the first Intensive Care Units, ran analytical laboratories, became Professor of Medicine, edited ten textbooks and authored 285 scientific papers while lecturing worldwide. He pioneered live medical telecasts to physicians and hospitals and was a prize-winning medical news reporter for NBC-TV and then joined Eli Lilly and Company and retired as Chief Scientific Officer. He is a member of many boards and consults globally to health care, pharmaceutical, and biotech corporations. Maurice and Leigh, multigenerational Charlestonians, live in a colonial home and enjoy the local people, cuisine, arts, and Gullah culture. This is their first novel, written about their hometown and its major Spring arts festival.Thompson, Leigh L. is the author of 'Murder at Spoleto' with ISBN 9781930859548 and ISBN 1930859546.