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Excerpts from “What Gold Buys: A Silver Rush Mystery”

Autumn 1880 in the Rocky Mountains brings frost, snow and the return of Silver Queen Saloon owner Inez Stannert to Leadville, Colorado, in What Gold Buys, the fifth of Ann Parker’s Silver Rush historical mystery series. In this silver rush boomtown, those who are hungry for material riches seek their fortunes in precious metals while others, hungry for spiritual relief, seek to pierce the veil between life and death with the help of fortune-tellers, mediums and occultists. Deep in the twisted byways of Leadville’s Stillborn Alley, soothsayer Drina Gizzi is found murdered, strangled with a set of silver and gold ...

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