Richard A Coffey: 4 books

Rookie newspaperman Alex Woollcott is sent into the Colorado mountains to write about a dying adventurer and returns with the man and a story about one of the world's rarest postage stamps, the threepenny plum. This is Alex's story about an unusual stamp—and the unusual men that the stamp has defamed.

Bogtrotter is the story of a man and woman who sold most of their material possessions to buy time away from their ordered urban lives to explore simplicity and discover their connection to the natural world. Living in a rude one-room cabin on a northern Minnesota bog, they found remarkable happiness,...

Anthony Wolff is a thirteen-year-old paperboy who feels marooned in childhood after two murders stupefy the adults of his town and put his life on hold. Anthony narrates a boy’s-eye-view of mayhem and harmony with poignant observations of a prosperous, post-war prairie town stunned by the savage...

Firemen discover a man’s body and a valuable stamp collection after a fire in a mobile home park on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. While philatelic experts try to understand how a trailer park resident built a collection worth three million dollars, the county sheriff—and the stamps—go missing....