Black Fire: The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer--and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-Era San Francisco

By Robert Graysmith

Book Overview

The first biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-19th century San Francisco.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030772056X
• ISBN13: 9780307720566
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Crown
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.1" x 6.5"