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Killing Mister Watson

Part of the Shadow Country Trilogy series

By the author of "The Snow Leopard", "The Tree Where Man Was Born" and "On the River Styx", this novel is based around the circumstances of the death of a man in Florida 1910, who had terrorized his community and who very possibly had a criminal past.

Subject
biographyhistory
Genre
crimeliterary fictionhistorical fictionmystery
Setting
floridaamerican southeverglades
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 384 pages

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