In the Curse of Lucky Joe German, death follows a young boy like a shadow. First, it takes his family in the winter of 1850. Only 17, he sets out from his farm in the Minnesota Territory toward the California Gold Rush. Whichever method of travel to the gold fields...
Early in the California Gold Rush the village now named Placerville was called Hangtown. Before law and order eventually came with statehood, men were hanged here for good reason and for no particular reason. In this novel of Hangtown, five leading citizens appointed themselves as The Hanging Committee to save...
Max Bronstein figured out how to exert control beyond his own grave. If his three wives are to share in his estate, they must live together for a year. Frieda Sadloff, first wife, has hated Max since . . . well, she can’t recall not hating him. Ilse Schultz stole...
