Death in a Sawmill Town

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Death in a Sawmill Town is written by J. Richard Lewis and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 099742110X (ISBN 10) and 9780997421101 (ISBN 13).

A burnt body is discovered after a suspicious fire. A man flees Norway after stabbing a friend. A Knights of Labor agent is mangled beyond recognition. A "woods rat" couple plans a scam that goes awry. A black man is sent to a work camp that likely means his death. A violent man seeking revenge is redeemed by love until . . .All of these events and characters are brought to vivid life in Death in a Sawmill Town, a novel set in nation's richest longleaf pine sawmill town during the turn of the twentieth century. Author J. Richard Lewis's first novel is set in the prosperous northwest Florida lumber mill town of Bagdad, at the confluence of Mill Pond Creek and the Blackwater River. The town is filled with colorful characters, like "Box" Thackston (a former Pinkerton agent and union buster), Ulye Cotton (a highly-skilled black sawyer), Perly and Junie Floyd (a couple who use her beauty to climb out of poverty), and Eric Sorenson (who touches death three times). Their hard-scrabble lives reveal the rich tapestry of life in Bagdad, filled with ambition, violence, and death.