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Flames of silver : a Ralph Compton western  Cover Image Book Book

Flames of silver : a Ralph Compton western / by Jackson Lowry.

Lowry, Jackson,. (Author). Compton, Ralph. (Added Author).

Summary:

Thanks to the discovery of the Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Nevada, has made many a rough-hewn millionaire. It seems like everyone is looking to strike it rich, but to Morgan Mason, the real prize is being selected as one of the volunteer firemen. Recently inducted into the fire brigade, Mason is called to put out a blaze and stays to investigate its cause. His searing discovery? The fire was no accident - it was deliberately set. Mason knows he is the only one who can take the heat and catch the crooks before the wealth of the entire town goes up in smoke.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593333815 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 278 pages ; 18 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Berkley, 2021.
Subject: Fire departments > Fiction.
Arson > Fiction.
Virginia City (Nev.) > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Western fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Ralph Compton stood six foot eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. His first novel, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was the USA Today bestselling author of the Trail of the Gunfighter series, the Border Empire series, the Sundown Riders series, and the Trail Drive series, among others.

Jackson Lowry is the western pen name for Robert E. Vardeman, author of more than three hundred novels. Nominated for multiple awards, Vardeman received the 2017 Western Fictioneers Lifetime Achievement Award. His Western titles include Sonora Noose, Great West Detective Agency, and the weird Western trilogy Punished. He was born in Texas and has lived in the wilds of New Mexico most of his life.


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