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Also by J. R. Lindermuth:

Sooner Than Gold, April 2013
Paperback
Practice to Deceive, August 2012
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SOONER THAN GOLD
By: J. R. Lindermuth

Oak Tree Press
April 2013
On Sale: April 4, 2013
Featuring: Sheriff Sylvester Tilghman; Lydia Longlow; Dr. Hiram Mariner
190 pages
ISBN: 1610090837
EAN: 9781610090834
Paperback
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Mystery | Romance | Historical

It’s the summer of 1898. The nation, just coming out of an economic slump, has been at war with Spain since April. And Sylvester Tilghman, sheriff of Arahpot, Jordan County, Pennsylvania, has a murder victim with too many enemies. There’s Claude Kessler, who is found standing with a knife in his hand over the body of Willis Petry. There’s Rachel Webber, Kessler’s surly teen-aged stepdaughter, who admits an act intended to cause him harm. Then there’s the band of gypsies who claim Kessler is the goryo who stole one of their young women. If this isn’t enough to complicate Tilghman’s life, add in threats to his job by McClean Ruppenthal, former town burgess; a run-in with a female horse thief; scary predictions by a gypsy fortuneteller, and the theft of Doc Mariner’s new motorcar.