Geraldine Bonner

Geraldine Bonner
Geraldine Bonner (1870–1930) was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter known for her mystery novels and short stories. She gained popularity with works such as "The Pioneer" and "The Castlecourt Diamond Case," showcasing her talent for crafting suspenseful narratives. Bonner also wrote for stage and screen, contributing to early Hollywood scripts. Her writing often explored themes of crime, society, and the American West, reflecting the influences of her upbringing in the frontier towns of Colorado and Nevada.

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CHAPTER I HANDS UP The time was late August some eleven years ago. The place that part of central California where, on one side, the plain unrolls in golden levels, and on the other swells upward toward the rounded undulations of the foothills. It was very hot; the sky a fathomless blue vault, the land dreaming in the afternoon glare, its brightness blurred here and there by shimmering heat veils.... more...

CHAPTER I It had rained steadily for three days, the straight, relentless rain of early May on the Missouri frontier. The emigrants, whose hooded wagons had been rolling into Independence for the past month and whose tents gleamed through the spring foliage, lounged about in one another's camps cursing the weather and swapping bits of useful information. The year was 1848 and the great California... more...