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The wanton murder of a deaf pregnant farm girl is all but forgotten for 60 years until doctoral student Keith Flynn, also deaf, discovers the story and decides to look into it. Being mindful of his backspace becomes a matter of life and death as he visits the town where the murder occurred. The investigation becomes a fast-moving journey fraught with unexpected episodes of danger and death. Being targeted in a town full of gossipmongers and strangers, while being irritated by a well-meaning local interpreter, leads Keith to adventurous twists and turns that challenge his survival instincts. The moment of truth, love, and justice for Keith means trusting the world from his daily blind spots. Would you take such a risk while checking your backspace?

Backspace Dr Stephen C Baldwin Books

Backspace by Steve C. Baldwin, published by Savory Words Publishing (2015)

Set in southeast Texas, Dr. Steve Baldwin crafted a briskly paced murder mystery filled with family violence, addiction, bullying, blackmail, deceit and greed, murder, and incest. In the early 1950’s, stuck in an unsympathetic hearing world filled with ignorance, misinformation, and shame, Joanne Webster, an 18 year-old girl who is deaf has few options but to be her family’s maid. She manages to find solace in long walks in the piney east Texas woods picking flowers living in her own dream world surviving by her own instincts with a few pitying friends and family members to console her. In author, Steve Baldwin’s words, “Joanne was a lonely soul craving meaningful two-way communication.” Baldwin deftly creates memorable characters such as Joanne, a naïve deaf girl, the annoying and unscrupulous Zenith hearing aid dealer who tries to sell a hearing aid to Joanne’s family, to uncouth bullying youths, to a jealous older sister, to a police system is incompetent in finding Joanne's killer, and the court system is too hurried to provide justice, to a deceitful and greedy doctor. But sixty years later, a “Lone Ranger,” comes to town. A young and handsome Deaf doctoral student with social justice leanings takes it upon himself to find our more facts about the case. He meets a sign language interpreter and together they solve the mystery of the identity of Joanne’s cowardly killer.
Baldwin’s story will not only captivate murder mystery fans, but also deaf studies enthusiasts. A prolific writer and historian by professional training, Baldwin captures the history of treatment of deaf people in the 1950’s and how deaf people were often hidden in their homes and not provided education. He balances his deaf characters from an illiterate deaf girl to a highly literate Deaf doctoral student who is bilingual in American Sign Language and English, so Baldwin does not leave the readers with Deaf stereotypes as many novels do. He also shows that during this era, hearing families did not learn sign language so deaf persons, like Joanne, were socially isolated from daily family life and had to rely on gestures and body language. To further depict society’s response, Baldwin showed how Deaf people were often made fun of and thought to be less intelligent than hearing people, when in reality there were just as intelligent but simply couldn’t hear.
Coincidently when Dr. Baldwin told me about his book, Backspace, I was deep into my own academic writing updating a textbook and reviewing literature on visual attention and deafness by neuroscientists whose laboratory experiments revealed that deaf people—both signers and nonsigners have more enhanced peripheral vision. (You will see in the story that Joanne, a nonsigner was able to detect jumping squirrels and flying birds in her side-space quicker than John, her hearing companion saw them.). So, as my fingers turned the e-book pages, I was delighted to see how Dr. Baldwin cleverly wove this science into his story. Readers will quickly understand how space figures into Joanne’s demise.
I highly recommend this book. With a click of your mouse, you can buy it through Amazon for the price of $3.99, download to your Kindle and begin reading it in less than a minute.

Product details Paperback 92 pages Publisher Savory Words (November 1, 2015) Language English ISBN-10 0986355232

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Backspace Dr Stephen C Baldwin Books Reviews

A great read. An excellent mystery. One would never guess the ending of the story. Highly recommended for a fast paced book.
Review of “Backspace” - Author Steve C. Baldwin

As an avid reader of novels, but a reluctant writer of such, I found Baldwin’s foray into fiction writing may easily inspire other novices to dive into the world of writing. Generally, I will read the first few pages to determine whether or not to stay with it; if there isnt a “hook” I don’t read the rest of it. This one did indeed hook me to the very end. Baldwin’s organization of the story was a clever combination of introducing common beliefs or practices within the deaf community along with a story line that manages to hold the reader’s interest throughout the book.

Compared to previous deaf fiction writers’ attempts to publish their work, Baldwin has done a masterful job of setting the right examples to follow for aspiring deaf writers. Baldwin’s novella is a tapestry of a sequence of storytelling with true facts that are practiced or or observed throughout the culture of the deaf community. While the deaf reader is bound to delight in reading this novel, the true test is whether or not the non-deaf community will find it equally compelling; I believe it is. As for the final guess as to the guilty suspect in this “whodunit” novel, I blew it and guessed wrong. Author Baldwin scores big here and more power to him in his future novels. I would hope he will develop into a deaf writer who is not stuck into only a genre of deaf character-led novels, but novels that any reader would become captivated to the end of every story.

I give this a 4.5 star rating, as Baldwin has to be motivated to write another book. Kudos, sir.

Timothy A. Jaech, retired deaf educator and columnist
This is a story of intrigue, temptation, dysfunctional families, mystery and redemption. Of pasts being exposed and righting wrongs. This story is instructive, entertaining, and quite suspenseful in its focus on an unsolved murder of a young deaf girl and a small rural community grappling with its shameful past."Backspace" is a provocative read which invites layer upon layer of insights into the world of deafness. But, it is more than just a mystery. Foremost, it is a story that dispels many myths and shines a light on many universal truths about people who are deaf. As a baby boomer raised by deaf parents who came of age in the 1940's, I can relate to the story quite intimately--the story resonated with me in many ways as I, too, am an interpreter for the deaf. One of the characters in this story, an interpreter for the deaf, adds another dimension; having a protagonist, the intense doctoral student who is deaf and the earnest interpreter--both characters crucial to the outcome of the unsolved murder. The fabric of deaf life is one that is truly unique and this e-novella explores the issues of deafness throughout the story. The advent of hearing aids, assistive listening devices, e.g. fire alarm, nightstand clocks with lights, etc. are explored and they weave their way into the story to introduce readers to these important technological advances in the lives of persons who are deaf. "Backspace" is a term eloquently introduced by Dr. Steve Baldwin that explains how visual acuity is highly developed among deaf persons and this cannot be overstated. I will forever be impacted by this phenomenon of peripheral space magnification that deaf people naturally possess. Without reservation, I recommend this e-novella highly and would relish to see this become a movie in the Stanley Gardner tradition with all of its pivots and twists. An excellent read!
Jennifer Berg, CSC, Level V Interpreter-Texas.
Backspace by Steve C. Baldwin, published by Savory Words Publishing (2015)

Set in southeast Texas, Dr. Steve Baldwin crafted a briskly paced murder mystery filled with family violence, addiction, bullying, blackmail, deceit and greed, murder, and incest. In the early 1950’s, stuck in an unsympathetic hearing world filled with ignorance, misinformation, and shame, Joanne Webster, an 18 year-old girl who is deaf has few options but to be her family’s maid. She manages to find solace in long walks in the piney east Texas woods picking flowers living in her own dream world surviving by her own instincts with a few pitying friends and family members to console her. In author, Steve Baldwin’s words, “Joanne was a lonely soul craving meaningful two-way communication.” Baldwin deftly creates memorable characters such as Joanne, a naïve deaf girl, the annoying and unscrupulous Zenith hearing aid dealer who tries to sell a hearing aid to Joanne’s family, to uncouth bullying youths, to a jealous older sister, to a police system is incompetent in finding Joanne's killer, and the court system is too hurried to provide justice, to a deceitful and greedy doctor. But sixty years later, a “Lone Ranger,” comes to town. A young and handsome Deaf doctoral student with social justice leanings takes it upon himself to find our more facts about the case. He meets a sign language interpreter and together they solve the mystery of the identity of Joanne’s cowardly killer.
Baldwin’s story will not only captivate murder mystery fans, but also deaf studies enthusiasts. A prolific writer and historian by professional training, Baldwin captures the history of treatment of deaf people in the 1950’s and how deaf people were often hidden in their homes and not provided education. He balances his deaf characters from an illiterate deaf girl to a highly literate Deaf doctoral student who is bilingual in American Sign Language and English, so Baldwin does not leave the readers with Deaf stereotypes as many novels do. He also shows that during this era, hearing families did not learn sign language so deaf persons, like Joanne, were socially isolated from daily family life and had to rely on gestures and body language. To further depict society’s response, Baldwin showed how Deaf people were often made fun of and thought to be less intelligent than hearing people, when in reality there were just as intelligent but simply couldn’t hear.
Coincidently when Dr. Baldwin told me about his book, Backspace, I was deep into my own academic writing updating a textbook and reviewing literature on visual attention and deafness by neuroscientists whose laboratory experiments revealed that deaf people—both signers and nonsigners have more enhanced peripheral vision. (You will see in the story that Joanne, a nonsigner was able to detect jumping squirrels and flying birds in her side-space quicker than John, her hearing companion saw them.). So, as my fingers turned the e-book pages, I was delighted to see how Dr. Baldwin cleverly wove this science into his story. Readers will quickly understand how space figures into Joanne’s demise.
I highly recommend this book. With a click of your mouse, you can buy it through for the price of $3.99, download to your and begin reading it in less than a minute.