| Authors: |
Graysmith, Robert.
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| Material type: |
Biography |
| Subject: |
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century.
Adventure and adventurers -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography.
Fire fighters -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography.
Fires -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 19th century.
Arson -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 19th century.
Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character)
Sawyer, Tom,1832-1906.
Twain, Mark,1835-1910 -- Friends and associates.
Twain, Mark,1835-1910 -- Sources.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Crown Publishers, c2012. |
| Description: |
x, 268 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780307720566 030772056X |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Summary: |
An account 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. |