Books with author Richard Madison

A coming of age story is featured as the 10th novel in the Richard, the Norphlet Paperboy Series. Richard and John Clayton encounter unusual family problems and they decided to spend a few days with Uncle Swamp hoping that their family problems will work out while they are gone. However, rain and more rain floods the area and they are swept down the river on an epic flood. After days on the Ouachita, Black, Red, and finally the Mississippi they manage to swim ashore near New Orleans. Penniless, wearing only cutoff shorts they, they struggle to survive in the French Quarter. After a week of living in the Quarter by eating out of garbage cans and sleeping in a drainage culvert they are picked up and sent to a repressive Louisiana Reform School. The breakout and struggle to return home tests every fiber of the boys emotions. It's a true test of the boys resolve and determination to survive.

As a young boy, Richard Mason lived the life of the paperboy, ‘Richard, in the novel. His interactions with the people in the small town of Norphlet, Arkansas, and the surrounding woods and swamps, form the basis of his seven-book Richard, the Paperboy series. It was a time of brown, sunburned feet and shirtless summers, when a boy’s only entertainment was his imagination. Richard Mason has written seven books in the Richard, the Paperboy series: The Red Scarf, Lyin’ Like a Dog, The Yankee Doctor, The Danged Swamp! “I will drink your blood” The Vampire-Werewolf of Flat Creek Swamp, The Mystery of the Canebrake, The River Rat, and a Catahoula Hog Dog, all part of the series inspired by his early years in Arkansas.

Richard the Paperboy's dog: Not just any hound, but the hero dog of Norphlet! A paperboy’s dog who everyone in the little village adored. It’s a Tom Sawyer like tale of a remarkable dog who stayed in trouble, because he couldn’t resist trying to be a “good dog.” A nip at a bully’s seat, being the only dog ever baptized, and being dognapped could only happen to one remarkable dog, Sniffer.

It’s the summer of 1944 and Richard, the Norphlet Paperboy, John Clayton, and Ears are in one heck of a mess. Yeah, there was an ‘accident’ involving a small herd of 10 Chihuahuas, which has sent the whole state into an uproar, and the three boys are right in the middle of it. An attack by the Chihuahuas on Richard, the paperboy has left the brown, award-winning Chihuahuas with white spots, and as Richard will tell you, “It was all a danged accident, but we’re in big trouble, and if lying won’t get us off, then maybe the Norphlet Mafia is gonna hafta do something really, really bad. You know, like dognapping, or something so gross it will run the Little Rock private eye right out of town.”