Kittling: Books

  First Lines: San Francisco, California. Thursday evening, March 9, 1882. Long vacant, the house smelled of dust and decay . Inez Stannert ...

First Line: There had been occasions in the past when Inez Stannert had looked a man-- and even, once, a woman-- straight in the eye and ...

First Line: Not my hands ! It's 1881, and Inez Stannert and her ward, young Antonia Gizzi, are now settled in San Francisco. Inez h...

First Line: It was hard to find somewhere close by the crowded silver mining boomtown to practice killing a man, but Antonia was nothing ...