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Elke White’s disappearance appeared suspicious to police from the get-go, and
Put-in-Bay author Bob Adamov investigators soon focused on her husband, Spider. Rumors abounded about marital
strife and an affair.
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Did Elke run away from her troubles or was her disappearance a homicide? And what
releases White Spider Night was the motive? Who was responsible? And what about the connection to Middle Bass
Island? Suspects were lining up like planes waiting to land at an airport.
Emerson Moore fi nds himself entangled in a spiderweb full of mystery as he investi-
gates her disappearance. It’s a scrambled jigsaw puzzle of suspects.

Adamov’s Memory Layne wins Best General Fiction Award at the 2022 Next
Generation Indie Book Awards
The Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group has just named the best indie
books of 2022 in the largest international book awards program for independent
publishers and self-published authors. Memory Layne was named the winner in the
General Fiction (under 70,000 words) category and fi nalist in the Action/Adventure
category.
About the author
Adamov was the featured author at the 2006 Ernest Heming-
Award-winning, island author Bob Adamov celebrates his 20th year of writing Put-in- way Literary Festival in Key West and named as one of Publish
Bay-based, mystery adventure novels with the release of White Spider Night. Sunset Blues Ohio’s favorite authors in 2020. He was named Writer of the
was released on April 1st and a rewritten edition of his fi rst novel, Rainbow’s End, will be Year (2010) in regional competition sponsored by the Univer-
available on October 19, 2022. sity of Akron’s Wayne College. Adamov’s fi rst novel - Rainbow’s
“My boyhood dream was to write a novel one day and I didn’t realize that dream until I End - was a 2003 runner-up as the top fi ction novel in the Great
wrote Rainbow’s End, which was released on October 19, 2002 at Put-in-Bay’s Park Hotel. Lakes (won by Pulitzer Prize winner – Middlesex.) His novels were
As I was encouraged to write another novel by my readers and the awards started coming rated 5 Stars by the Midwest Book Review and several were
in, I thought I’d do a second novel. I had no idea that I would have written 16 novels by named as top novels in northeast Ohio by the Akron Beacon
now,” Adamov commented. “I can’t thank my readers enough for the support and encour- Journal. Adamov’s novels additionally have won awards at the
agement I’ve been given. Thank you.” Hollywood Book Festival, London Book Festival, New York
His string of island bestsellers in the popular Emerson Moore series includes Rain- Book Festival, the Indie Awards, Great Midwest Book Festi-
bow’s End, Pierce the Veil, When Rainbows Walk, Promised Land, The Other Side of Hell, Tan val and Florida Book Festival. Adamov has also presented at
Lines, Sandustee, Zenobia, Missing, Golden Torpedo, Chincoteague Calm, Flight, Assateague Dark several of the Clive Cussler Collectors Society conventions.
and Sunset Blues plus Memory Layne. His writing style has been compared to bestselling A Kent State University graduate, Adamov resides in Wooster,
authors Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy. Ohio. He often can be seen in Put-in-Bay, Key West, Chincote-
ague Island and the Cayman Islands with his scuba diving,
White Spider Night boating and treasure hunting friends. He had worked for an Arlington, Virginia-based
After Labor Day, the residents of South Bass Island and its popular resort village of Put-in-Bay were defense contractor in the intelligence sector.
looking forward to a calm fall following a busy summer. That changed when they were shaken by the For more information or to have Adamov speak at your event, visit: www.BobAdamov.
news that one of their well-liked bed & breakfast owners had disappeared. com or call: 330-289-7616. Follow Adamov on Facebook. MAB

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