


The wild colors of some houses, the sound of the volunteer fire company siren, the canal that brought life and the highway that took it away all figure in the novel. “The book is my way to share and show off Chesapeake City to the real world. “I really love Chesapeake City and want others to appreciate it,” Healey said. The result is a new mystery called “The House That Went Down With the Ship.” And melded those concepts with the colorful charm of Chesapeake City. He imagined a crew creating an online series about house renovations. He imagined a corpse, mummified after 90 years, between the walls. No hidden money has been found in that house in Chesapeake City, Md., but the encounter made new homeowner David Healey think “about the secrets that an old house keeps.” “Did you ever find any money in the house?” he asked plaintively. The mystery started when the old man knocked on the door of the old house, once owned by his mother.
