Easy Pickings, Richard S. Wheeler
Easy Pickings, Richard S. Wheeler
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Easy Pickings

Author: Richard S. Wheeler

Narrator: Andrea Gallo

Unabridged: 8 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/10/2016


Synopsis

Life hasn't always been easy for March and Kermit McPhee, but things are looking up. March gives birth to a healthy son, and their small gold mine is looking better and better as Kermit blasts his way along a good seam of ore. Then Kermit is crushed by a cave-in.As soon as her husband dies, crooks are at March's door, eager to get their hands on the mine. The peaceful town of Marysville, Montana, is peaceful no more. March's home is burned and her baby killed. Terrified and threatened, she is targeted by the wealthy and powerful. March fights back every way she can. She discovers she has allies: a saloon man named Tipperary Leary, an assayer named Rolf Wittgenstein, and a slippery lawyer named Hermes Apollo. Still, March must ask herself whether it is worth it; whether a gold mine, or wealth of any sort, should be defended at such a price.

About Richard S. Wheeler

Richard S. Wheeler is the award-winning author of historical novels, biographical novels, and Westerns. He began his writing career at age fifty, and by seventy-five he had written more than sixty novels. He began life as a newsman and later became a book editor, but he turned to fiction full time in 1987. Wheeler started by writing traditional Westerns but soon was writing large-scale historical novels and then biographical novels. In recent years he has been writing mysteries as well, some under the pseudonym Axel Brand. He has won six Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the literature of the American West.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Donna on March 26, 2019

A clean read.......more

Goodreads review by Clayton on September 26, 2024

Did not love the ending......more

Goodreads review by Jim on May 01, 2020

Well written and interesting book with Wheeler once again creating believable and sympathetic characters. And his bad guys in this one are bad in such a matter of fact way. Really disturbing and effective. And then the ending. Perhaps the worst I’ve ever read. As I advanced to the final couple of pa......more

Goodreads review by Dave on August 21, 2016

Quick read, after a 699 page fiction. Gold, causes a Montana miner to die in his mine and all the baddies in town try to take the mine from the widow, starting with arson and murder of the miner's child. Ends when some Irish miners defend the Scottish widow........more

Goodreads review by Ray on January 05, 2017

Good book right up to the stupid ending. Author must have been sick of writing or couldn't think of an ending......more