The Scarlet Rider

by Lucy Sussex

Book Overview

Working for an all-female publishing company, young Melvina Kirksley sets out to learn who wrote "The Scarlet Rider, or A Mystery of the Gold-Diggings", which was serialized anonymously in an 1860s... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1921857226
• ISBN13: 9781921857225
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Ticonderoga Publications
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Bildungsroman meets mystery meets Santeria

Combines Australian history, genealogical research methods, publishing and academia, Santeria, and a plain old good story. Owes something to Quest for Corvo, and possibly to Madison Smartt Bell's Washington Square Ensemble, and also to Conan Doyle. Magical realism is beginning to seep into the "western" mainstream, it seems, and a good thing