Gazette columnist John Kalbfleisch launches debut historical novel

Longtime Gazette contributor John Kalbfleisch has mined Montreal’s history for interesting stories to recount, writing his weekly Second Draft column for the paper since 2000.Now Kalbfleisch has turned his writing skills to fiction, penning a debut novel, titled A Stain Upon the Land, a whodunit based on the real-life account of Robert Watson, a prominent Montreal merchant shot to death in his home on March 30, 1827. Who killed him and why?Kalbfleisch explores that line between f