The Fall Of The House Of Spade

About the Book

In 1913, several brutal murders occurred in the small town of Canton, Kentucky.  Quentin Spade, the scion of a wealthy family—intellectual, respected. artistic, reserved,—was accused of being a psychotic killer—but was he?  In the early Twenty-First Century, Tiffany Gray, a college student, becomes obsessed with the century old murders and attempts to discover what really happened.  The Fall of the House of Spade is a fast-paced novel which moves back and forth from past to present.  It presents a story of greed, hatred, political treachery, vengeance, violence, and love, set against the decline of Canton as a center of riverboat trade and wealth.

"Kenneth Tucker has woven a haunting story whose characters linger beyond a final page of  history or text."

    Katherine C. Kurk, Kentucky Philological Review

"Tucker tells a fascinating  story of these evil doers... It's an interesting part of our history..."

Jesse Stuart Foundation.

"Tucker effectively uses dialogue and and clear, graphic details to bring to light a sad chapter in Kentucky's history."

    Steve FlairtyKentucky Monthly

About the Author

Kenneth Tucker grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and received his Ph. D. from the University of Kentucky.  Now retired, Dr. Tucker taught English at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky for 31 years.  His academic specialties were Shakespeare and literature of the English Renaissance.  He has published widely, writing book reviews and articles on a variety of writers, including Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, John Webster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Penn Warren, H. G. Wells, and H. P. Lovecraft.  He is also the author of Eliot Ness and the Untouchables, The Historical Reality and the Film and Television Depictions (2000), Shakespeare and Jungian Psychology, a Reading of the Plays (2003), and A Wilderness of Tigers, a Novel of the Harpe Brothers and Frontier violence (2005).