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    The Undertaker's Wife
    The Undertaker's Wife
    The Undertaker's Wife
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Undertaker's Wife

    Written by Loren D. Estleman

    Narrated by Henry Strozier

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    About this audiobook

    Author Loren D. Estleman has won four Golden Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, as well as the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Western Novel from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. Also a Pulitzer Prize nominee, he pens a dramatic tale set in the early 1900s about a retired undertaker, Richard Connable, and his wife Lucy. In order to save the country from financial disaster, Richard must disguise the suicide of one of the most preeminient financiers in America.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateNov 26, 2007
    ISBN9781449800130
    The Undertaker's Wife
    Author

    Loren D. Estleman

    Loren D. Estleman is the author of more than eighty novels, including the Amos Walker, Page Murdock, and Peter Macklin series. The winner of four Shamus Awards, five Spur Awards, and three Western Heritage Awards, he lives in Central Michigan with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.

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    • 3/5
      Just a good story--nothing more, but nothing less--more about the undertaker than his wife, despite the title. It follows his career, from his apprenticeship with his father in Monroe, Michigan, through Civil War service, a failed attempt to challenge the corruption in San Francisco as the transcontinental railroad is completed, then a partnership in Fort Hays, Kansas (again with a corrupt sheriff in control) as the railroad is arriving, another partnership briefly in Virginia City, Montana, a stint teaching mortuary science in Chicago, another brief venture in St. Louis before ending his career in Buffalo as a nationally known undertaker.