Silence is golden
Subtitle: a Connor Westphal mystery
By: Penny Warner
Publisher: Perseverance Press/John Daniel & Co.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Palo Alto, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781880284667
Subjects: Deaf women; Women journalists; Prospecting; Connor Westphal (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: Connor Westphal is a deaf woman who is a newspaper editor in Flat Skunk, a small town in what was once California Gold Country. And may still be: A local man claims to have found gold in an old mine, along with old bones he claims belongs to an ancestor. The small ensuing gold rush brings to town Connor's ex-lover, with his ex-wife, who gets murdered.