While a character’s speech may often reflect regional origins, it also can convey attitudes common in the day. So that readers can better grasp such cultural and historical terms, uncommon words or expressions of the era, the following glossary has been provided.  bale ring: in a large tent, the...
And murder was to be the task of Kurt Reid. The first week he spent worrying. No one came to see him, no one advised him of the exact nature of his arrest, he heard nothing of the two strange women who had indirectly caused his incarceration. A man can find a great deal to worry about when he is ...
He was between two rocks, voraciously gnawing at the packet of dried meat that Bonnet had furnished.He had eaten the packet of food halfway before he felt nausea; it was not an immediate thing and he attributed it to the starvation he had suffered. But when he took his next bite he realized that ...