The Father The Son and the Railroad Ghost

by Dan Starrett


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Softcover
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Softcover
$15.94

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 2/5/2001

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 488
ISBN : 9781588207869

About the Book

The Father, The Son, and the Railroad Ghost is the bittersweet epoch saga of three generations of cops beginning with the career of T.J. (Pappy Tom) Starrett, an ex-Virginia State Trooper and Game Warden torn between a brain tumor and the stigmas of leaving the state police and an accidental gunshot wound.

Continuing the saga is T.J.’s second son Dan, a Virginia law enforcement officer and correctional officer. After seven years of research Dan uncovers the mystery surrounding his grandfather Walter B. Starrett’s line of duty death. Walter was killed in a running gun battle on Christmas Eve of 1917 while a detective for the B&O Railroad Police Department in Mitchell, IN.

Dan must live with the stigmas of an illicit love affair and his struggles to place his grandfather’s name on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Written in cop talk, The Father, the Son, and the Railroad Ghost involves life, death, murder, and adultery topped off with a startling revelation-- and an ultimate triumph.


About the Author

Dan Starrett, a native Virginian, his wife Faye and dog Muffin make their home in Reidsville, NC. Dan has been involved in police and corrections work since 1969. He has traveled extensively throughout the country obtaining documentation and story line for this book and perhaps another one about his life in corrections.

Dan has worked in nine separate institutions and four state governments: Virginia, Montana, South Carolina, and North Carolina Department of Corrections consisting of maximum and minimum custody levels. He has also been a police officer for six years. He is the third generation of law enforcement in the Starrett family.

Dan is presently working for the City of Martinsville, VA Sheriff’s Office as a deputy. Dan and his wife Faye are members of the East Side Baptist Church in Reidsville, NC.