The entrance of Scattergood Baines into Coldriver Valley, and the manner of his first taking root in its soil, are legendary. This much is clear past even disputing in the post office at mail time, or evenings in the grocery-he walked in, perspiring profusely, for he was very fat.
The entrance of Scattergood Baines into Coldriver Valley, and the manner of his first taking root in its soil, are legendary. This much is clear past ...
TO CELEBRATE THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, WE'RE REPRINTING THIS CLASSIC MYSTERY SET IN YOSEMITE AND WRITTEN TO CELEBRATE THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PARK SYSTEM "Clarence Budington Kelland is master of the slick, swift, entertaining yarn." -The New York Times "First Kelland book I ever read. Got me hooked." -Goodreads The Sinister Strangers starts in midcentury Yosemite National Park when probationary ranger Linc Sawtell becomes suspicious of Joan Vanderlee, maid/secretary to Letitia Potwin, an outrageous Boston Blueblood on a hunt for a real-life treasure lost in the...
TO CELEBRATE THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, WE'RE REPRINTING THIS CLASSIC MYSTERY SET IN YOSEMITE AND WRITTEN TO CELEBRATE THE 40...
RICHES NOT ROMANCE, WAS HER AIM - SO SHE FOUGHT AGAINST LOVE ALL THE WAY -The time is the Eighteen Seventies; the place is gaudy, lavish San Francisco. Anneke Villard, of haunting grace, comes to the city on the Golden Gate with Hepsibah, her duenna, from Kentucky. There is no love in Anneke's eyes, no desire to turn her beauty to account save for money. Once accepted into society (that being bankers, real estate and mining speculators) Anneke listens to conversation with naive charm. From tidbits dropped here and there she finds ways to fatten her bankroll through stock coups of various...
RICHES NOT ROMANCE, WAS HER AIM - SO SHE FOUGHT AGAINST LOVE ALL THE WAY -The time is the Eighteen Seventies; the place is gaudy, lavish San Francisc...
-Your town, - said he, -is growin'. Its population jest increased by me.- -Sizable growth, - said Old Man Penny, dryly, letting his eye rove over Scattergood's bulk. -My line, - said Scattergood, -is anythin' needful. Outside of a railroad, what you figger you need most?- Nobody answered. -Is it a grocery store?- asked Scattergood. Locker stiffened in his chair. -Me and Sam Kittleman calc'lates to sell all the groceries this town needs, - he said.
-Your town, - said he, -is growin'. Its population jest increased by me.- -Sizable growth, - said Old Man Penny, dryly, letting his eye rove over Scat...
-An absorbing novel of espionage and romance - an unforgettable story of the amazing ship that saved the Union.- New York Herald Tribune -One of America's most famous authors tells of the fateful battle of the ironclads-and the beautiful woman who turned the tide of history.- Detroit News -Espionage and romance; and also the story of the amazing ship that saved the Union.- -Hanover Evening Sun Yvonne Constant of Val-Fleury was a pampered, privileged daughter of the south and an ardent champion of the Confederate cause. Eric Nelson was a Swedish immigrant and a committed Union patriot, working...
-An absorbing novel of espionage and romance - an unforgettable story of the amazing ship that saved the Union.- New York Herald Tribune -One of Ameri...
The Cardiff Giant Affair is set in Syracuse in 1869 and deals with a happy melange of medicine shows, con games, 'brawling canawlers, ' high society and murder, with two highly spirited women and incidental glimpses of P. T. Barnum. All this is interwoven with the splendid true story of the Cardiff Giant hoax; the two plots, fictional and real, illuminate each other and the author's thesis that 'folks jest naturally crave to be gulled.' This light and charming romance is easily the most successful of Mr. Kelland's ventures into the mystery field.- -Anthony Boucher, The New York Times The...
The Cardiff Giant Affair is set in Syracuse in 1869 and deals with a happy melange of medicine shows, con games, 'brawling canawlers, ' high society a...
