Belle Starr battles against men, masculine roles, and the turmoil of menopause as she runs roughshod over the Oklahoma Territory of 1899 wiping out banks, posses, train bridges, and telegraph lines

Belle Starr: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Morgan, Speer

Literary

Little,Brown & Co

A coon hunter stumbles onto a trailer full of brightly lit computer terminals . . . and one electrocuted corpse. A cop stops a car with the drug-wired daughter of the president of DataForm--a transplanted Silicon Valley security firm. There is something rotten in Dubois, Arkansas. An estranged husband-and-wife detective team temporarily rejoin forces, following a bizarre trail to big bucks and murder . . . as schemes, scams and a seemingly superhuman computer turn a sleepy southern town into a high-tech hotbed. "The first masterful novel about computers . . . holds the same place as The Godfather, about the underworld, and Dog Soldiers, about the Vietnam era."  - San Francisco Chronicle". . . a fast-paced, high-tech thriller . . .”  - Publishers Weekly"You don't have to know anything about computers to appreciate the intricacies Speer Morgan has dreamed up."  - Los Angeles Times Book Review

Assemblers

Worldwide Library

THE WHIPPING BOY.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. BOSTON 1994

belle Starr

"Belle Starr is a wonderful book, singing with the wild energy and zany humor (and, too, the ineffable sadness) of the final years of the Old West. Speer Morgan has created a tragic and triumphant story, rich with truly dimensional characters and with scenes and events which live on the page and then haunt the memory. Belle Starr is an important novel, a genuine contribution to the legend and history of America." ----George Garrett, author of Death of the Fox

Belle Starr

Contemporary

Pocket

Speer Morgan shares his powerful memories through short fiction that moves from the sloughs of mid-Arkansas to the fifth floor of a wholesale hardware company that overlooks Indian Territory, to a house haunted by a bad cat, to the living room of a woman suffering the worst headache of her life, to a sewage pond where two good ole boys are hunting for frogs. The contemporary freestyle narration Morgan uses is suspenseful, humorous, natural, and conversational. In some of the tales he weaves fantasy into reality; in others he captures the cruelty of life's underside.

Frog Gig, and other stories (A Breakthrough book)

Short Stories & Anthologies

University of Missouri Press

The Best of the Missouri Review: Fiction, 1978-1990

Michaelson, Greg

History & Criticism

Univ of Missouri Pr

A collection of war diaries by American soldiers spans two centuries and more than a dozen conflicts to probe the inner feelings of soldiers faced with injury and possible loss of life. 15,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

For Our Beloved Country: American War Diaries from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf

History

Americas

Atlantic Monthly Pr

The Freshour Cylinders

WINNER OF THE 1999 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD
Tom Freshour needs a vacation. It's the dusty, hot summer of 1934, and he'd like to escape both the heat in western Arkansas and his cases at the county prosecutor's office for the calm and solitude of a fishing trip. But his old Ford won't start, and while it's being repaired, an eccentric and enigmatic collector of Indian artifacts is brutally murdered.
It doesn't help matters that the executor of the collector's estate is Rainy Davis, a beautiful, intelligent young archaeologist who's uncertain why she was appointed to oversee the estate of a man whom she'd met only once.
Nor does it help that the most formidable county judge has asked personally that Freshour take the case.
But Freshour agrees, drawing himself into a tense and violent investigation of murder, political scandal, and some very private affairs.
In this suspenseful literary mystery, Speer Morgan takes us back to the events surrounding the discovery and destruction of the Spiro Mound, the most significant pre-Columbian temple mound ever found in North America. Weaving history with the compelling story of murder, broken hearts, and greed, Morgan gives us one of the most engrossing, sexy, and suspenseful reads of the year.

United States

MacMurray & Beck

Assistant prosecutor Tom Freshour investigates the brutal murder of an eccentric and enigmatic collector of Indian artifacts

Macadam Cage Pub

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