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Title details for A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage by Mark Twain - Available

A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage

by Mark Twain
Roy Blount, Jr.
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Set in the quaint hollow of Deer Lick, a mythical town resembling Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri, this bizarre tale chronicles the fortunes of a humble farmer, John Gray, determined to marry off his daughter, Mary, to the scion of the town's wealthiest family. But the sudden appearance of a stranger found lying unconscious in the snow not only derails Gray's plans but also leads to a mysterious murder whose solution lies at the heart of this captivating story.

Twain, already one of the country's most celebrated authors, composed this story in the year of America's centennial as a work of entertainment, a so-called "blind novelette." He then dared other great writers of the day, including Henry James and William Dean Howells, to compose other endings to the story, but the competition never took place and the story was thought by many to have been lost.

In addition to a Foreword and Afterword by the Southern novelist and humorist Roy Blount Jr., the book is also graced by six newly commissioned illustrations by Peter de Sève, whose atmospheric renderings compellingly re-create the rural world of nineteenth-century Missouri in all its quirky detail. Unique to the eBook are a comprehensive bibliography, a timeline, and the wonderful collection, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain, filled with quotes from America’s favorite humorist.

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