THE GREAT TWAIN ROBBERY

Guntrum, Robert

ISBN 10: 1885173024 / ISBN 13: 9781885173027

Published by Write Way Publishing, Aurora, CO, 1994

About this Item

Guntrum's first novel is a humorous bibliomystery featuring Henry Nash, an autoworker buried under a mountain of bills, who thinks he's due a break, and Lilith Bright, a Mark Twain relative of a distant, uncertain sort, who's sure a newly discovered, unpublished Twain manuscript belongs to her. Nash decides to steal the manuscript and finds himself being chased through a New York City blizzard not only by Bright, but the FBI, the Army, some terrorists and a couple of insurance agents. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows no more than a bit of of edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Laid-in is a typewirtten letter, signed by Guntrum, to a New York literary agent soliciting the agent's services for the publication of Guntrum's second novel, a synopsis of which is attached to the letter. A collectable bibliomystery with an interesting bit of ephemera.

Seller Inventory # 004629

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE GREAT TWAIN ROBBERY
• Publisher: Write Way Publishing, Aurora, CO
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1885173024
• ISBN 13: 9781885173027
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bibliomystery
  • Crime
  • Humor

About this title

Synopsis

Book by Guntrum, Robert R.

Reviews

Guntrum's first novel has an engaging premise-a newly discovered manuscript by Mark Twain is stolen before it can be auctioned off-but the story bogs down in a morass of minor characters. An avid fan of Wild West novels, the financially beleaguered antihero, Henry J. Nash, a UAW worker at a N.J. Chevy plant, is facing the prospect of a strike. Learning about a forthcoming Twain auction, he decides to play Jesse James and join the action. A Texas woman claiming to be Twain's only living relative (his great-great-niece-in-law) hopes to cash in on her connection after accidentally meeting the Connecticut woman who discovered the lost manuscript in a tag-sale trunk. Scattered among the clutter of plot lines-which coalesce into a 250-page car chase in New York City during a blizzard-are the mismatched curators of a Boston museum, the head of security for an overextended insurance company, a Mafioso hit man trailing a man in debt to a loan shark, the FBI and the Marines, among others. The reader who slogs along with this cardboard cast will finally enjoy a rather unpredictable and satisfying end.
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