Hundreds Hall was a grand old mansion, a park (gardens and green space that were fenced in) and extensive farmland beyond that.

Clara Marrow was finally getting recognition for her art. After years of living on the income of her husband Peter’s work, she had an individual show in the leading gallery in Montreal.

“Tales of the South Pacific” was Michener’s first work of fiction and it won a Pulitzer Prize.

Early in World War II, Germany overran France. France, and especially Paris, was awash with branches of the German military.

To have an Amish barn burn to the ground is a tragedy. To find that the family’s eldest son was burned with it is beyond tragedy.

Eliza Sommers is being raised by Rose and Jeremy Sommers in Valparaiso, Chile. She was found at their doorstep, an apparently abandoned baby.

Dave Cubiak is now sheriff of Door County. He originally came to Door a year ago to get away from several problems that developed while he was a policeman in Chicago (detailed previously in “Death Stalks Door County”).

Dave Cubiak’s life was a mess. His wife and daughter had been killed by a drunken driver, and his grief left him totally unable to function, let alone be an effective police officer.

“The Eighty-Dollar Champion” is nonfiction, based on actual events. Much of the story took place in the mid-1950s.

The Second World War has been over for some time; England is still adjusting, Lord Darlington has died, and Darlington Hall has been sold to an American, Mr. Faraday.