The Woodenhead
Treachery at the Northern Edge
2024
by: Mike Skubal
In the Spring of 2023, The Outhouse Papers: Gene Shepard and the Hodag, appeared in Rhinelander – a small city in the heart of Wisconsin’s Northwoods. The book follows the protagonist, The Old Man, as he works out of a remote cabin to discover the true story behind Rhinelander’s beloved and nationally celebrated mascot, the Hodag. The book brings together Rhinelander’s distant past with the author’s current investigation into a captivating tale that makes even Rhinelander’s old-timers question what they thought they knew. You may have even read it – many of us have.
The Woodenhead – Treachery at the Northern Edge, follows the same Old Man, still working out of his rustic cabin, on a new quest of discovery. The Outhouse Papers had brought the author some notoriety and with it a letter addressed to “The Old Man who writes in a cabin in the woods.” The letter asks him to find a missing chest containing the memorabilia of Harry (The Great) Lester, an internationally acclaimed vaudevillian ventriloquist and one of Rhinelander’s most notable early 20th-century residents. His investigation turns up more than just the chest, however, and he shines new light on a nearly century-old tragedy that took place at a long-forgotten resort on Moen Lake just outside of Rhinelander. In this second book in the Old Man Series, readers are again taken along with the writer as he weaves in and out of Rhinelander’s past and discovers that there is, once again, more to the story.
ISBN: 978-0965374569
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