The Will of the Turntable

Secret Service operatives Merritt and Argent are redirected, once again, from their usual duties to help in the case of Mary Warner, a woman they escorted, during the entire month of April, from her farm in Kentucky to meet with President Grant in Washington.

Two months later, they find that M — as they have come to know her — has escaped the confines of her Washington residence. Moreover, Merritt and Argent discover she is trailed by a host of police, private detectives, and bounty hunters as she runs, dodges, and scrounges through the wilds of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

It is in the rail yard of Martinsburg, WV, however, where the chase really begins and it is the glorious roundhouse there, and the clever turntable at its heart, that will decide M’s fate and future.