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    Valuables

    By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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    For his entire life, Willard Harrison envied Mrs. Rose Grenlauer, but never more than now. Willard lost his arm, his wife, and everything he owned to the Yankees.

    Now the Yankees hold Memphis, and he can't do anything. Except think of Mrs. Rose Grenlauer, who escaped with her valuables into the wilds of Tennessee.

    Willard wants her valuables. Willard wants her life. And he means to get both.

    Shortlisted for The Best American Mysteries.

    "Kristine Kathryn Rusch's crime stories are exceptional, both in plot and in style."

    —Mystery Scene Magazine

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateSep 20, 2016
    ISBN9781536573466
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    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. She publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov's Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award.   

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      Valuables - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      Valuables

      VALUABLES

      KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH

      WMG Publishing, Inc.

      CONTENTS

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      Also by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      VALUABLES

      On June 8, 1861, Mrs. Rose Grenlauer, with the help of her slaves, packed all of her plantation’s valuables into two railroad cars and disappeared. Willard knew the exact date because that was the day Tennessee seceded from the Union. It was also the day he got conscripted into the Confederate Army.

      Ten months later, he was back in Memphis, such as it was, missing one arm, one wife, and half of his house. The Union army had burned it just after the Battle of Shiloh, when they occupied the city. General Ulysses S. Grant now used Mrs. Rose Grenlauer’s plantation as headquarters for one of his divisions and, it was said, he sat in her husband’s library, drinking port and smoking his awful cigars as he made his plans to destroy the South. Colonel Rufus Grenlauer knew nothing of that, of course. He hadn’t been home since he joined up right after Jefferson Davis, a friend of the Grenlauers’, became President of the Confederacy.

      Willard knew all that because he now begged for coins not a block from the Grenlauer estate. The damn Yankee soldiers would give him nothing for his trouble and for all his losses, but the widows and wives, most of whom were still struggling to keep their fancy homes together, usually gave him a scrap or two. Then they’d plead with him to get off the street, worried that the Yankees would somehow hurt him if they found out he was a patriot, as if they could do worse than they’d already done.

      Besides, the Yankees already knew he was a patriot. A strapping local man, left sleeve pinned to his shoulder, obviously thinner than a man should be, could be nothing else. That they didn’t bother him, that they

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