All God's Sparrows and Other Stories: A Stagecoach Mary Fields Collection

All God's Sparrows and Other Stories: A Stagecoach Mary Fields Collection - Paperback

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All God's Sparrows and Other Stories: A Stagecoach Mary Fields Collection - Paperback

All God's Sparrows and Other Stories: A Stagecoach Mary Fields Collection - Paperback

by Leslie Budewitz
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Book Overview

Born into slavery in Tennessee, the remarkable "Stagecoach Mary" Fields was a larger-than-life figure who cherished her independence, yet formed a deep bond with the Ursuline Sisters, traveling to their Montana mission in 1885 and spending the last thirty years of her life living there or in nearby Cascade. Mary is believed to have been the first Black woman in the country to drive a U.S. Postal Star Route, the source of her nickname.

In All God's Sparrows and Other Stories, Agatha Award-winning author Leslie Budewitz brings together three short stories, each originally published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, imagining the life of Stagecoach Mary in her first year in Montana, and a novella exploring her later life, including: All God's Sparrows, winner of the 2018 Agatha Award for Best Short Story; Miss Starr's Goodbye, a nominee for the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Derringer Award; Coming Clean, a finalist for the Western Writers of America's 2021 Spur Award for Best Short Story; and A Bitter Wind, a brand-new novella in which Mary helps a young woman newly arrived in the valley solve the mystery of her fianc?'s death and his homesteading neighbors' bitterness toward him. Includes an abbreviated bibliography and historical notes from the author.
ISBN9781960511744
Author Leslie Budewitz
PublisherBeyond the Page Publishing
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages170
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Leslie Budewitz tells stories about women's lives, seasoned with friendship, food, a dash of history, and a heaping spoonful of mystery. She writes the Spice Shop mysteries set in Seattle's Pike Place Market, as well as the Food Lovers' Village mysteries and historical short fiction set in her native Montana. As Alicia Beckman, she writes moody suspense. A three-time Agatha Award winner--2013 Best First Novel for DEATH AL DENTE, the first Food Lovers' Village mystery; 2011 Best Nonfiction, and 2018 Best Short Story, for "All God's Sparrows," her first historical fiction--she is a past president of Sisters in Crime and a former board member of Mystery Writers of America. Leslie lives and cooks in NW Montana.

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