Bibliograph

Black fire, [the true story of the original Tom Sawyer---and of the mysterious fires that baptized gold rush-era San Francisco], Robert Graysmith

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Black fire, [the true story of the original Tom Sawyer---and of the mysterious fires that baptized gold rush-era San Francisco], Robert Graysmith

Language

eng

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Intended audience

General adult

Literary text for sound recordings

biographyhistory

Main title

Black fire

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Oclc number

800740592

Responsibility statement

Robert Graysmith

Sub title

[the true story of the original Tom Sawyer---and of the mysterious fires that baptized gold rush-era San Francisco]

Summary

First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco

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