Fools' gold
By: Beverley Bassett Broad
Publisher: Akaroa Ostrich
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Banks Peninsula, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780473115128
Description: When Louis Benoit disappears from the gold fields of Hokitika, leaving his wife Emelia pregnant, everyone thinks he has been murdered for the gold he was carrying home from a packing trip, or run off with his ex-girlfriend, the prostitute Donna. However, he has been intercepted by his business partner George and the opportunist Donna, and persuaded to accompany them to finance a secret mission in search of a large amount of gold lost in 1868.
Notes: This is Book 2 of a three-book series: Book 1, West Coast reins, 2002 ; Book 3, Erupting lies, 2006.