Shadow Mountain
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About This Book
Wiley Homan has a business plan for Virginia, a waitress and the daughter of the same man whom his own father had robbed once. Naturally, Homan's return to the Death Valley sounds alarm bells all over the decrepit mining town and Virginia cannot believe that he is up to any good. To add to the mystery, there is also a slight possibility that Virginia's father did not die as she was led to believe. But what does Homan wants from her? Where is her father?ExcerptShe showed him into the spacious dining room, Where the Colonel had once presided in state, and hurried into the kitchen. The young man ...
Chapters (35)
- SHADOW MOUNTAIN
- CHAPTER I The Last of Ten Thousand
- 10CHAPTER II The Shotgun Widow
- 22CHAPTER III The Shadow
- 30CHAPTER IV The Ghost-Man
- 38CHAPTER V A Load of Buckshot
- 48CHAPTER VI All Crazy
- 58CHAPTER VII Between Friends
- 68CHAPTER VIII The Tip
- 78CHAPTER IX A Peace Talk
- 89CHAPTER X The Best Head in Town
- 98CHAPTER XI A Touch
- 106CHAPTER XII The Expert
- 118CHAPTER XIII A Sack of Cats
- 127CHAPTER XIV The Explosion
- 135CHAPTER XV The God of Ten Per Cent
- 143CHAPTER XVI A Show-down With the Widow
- 151CHAPTER XVII Peace–and the Price
- 160CHAPTER XVIII On Christmas Day
- 170CHAPTER XIX The Enigma
- 179CHAPTER XX An Appeal to Charley
- 187CHAPTER XXI The Dragon’s Teeth
- 196CHAPTER XXII Virginia Explains–nothing
- 204CHAPTER XXIII On Demand
- 214CHAPTER XXIV Double Trouble
- 223CHAPTER XXV Virginia Repents
- 231CHAPTER XXVI The Call
- 239CHAPTER XXVII The Thunder Clap
- 248CHAPTER XXVIII The Way Out
- 259CHAPTER XXIX Across Death Valley
- 269CHAPTER XXX An Evening with Socrates
- 279CHAPTER XXXI The Broken Trust
- 290CHAPTER XXXII A Huff
- 299CHAPTER XXXIII The Fiery Furnace
- 305CHAPTER XXXIV A Clean-up
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