First Chapter - First Paragaph(s) - Tuesday Intros

This week's choice:

Outlander by Gabaldon 

October 9, 2001- Doubleday

 

 It wasn't a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance.  Mrs. Baird's was like a thousand other Highland bed-and-breakfast establishments in 1945; clean and quiet, with fading floral wallpaper, gleaming floors, and a coin-operated hot-water geyser in the lavatory.  Mrs. Baird herself was squat and easygoing, and made no objection to Frank lining her tiny rose-sprigged parlor with the dozens of books and papers with which he always traveled.