Title: Black fire
Description: First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.
Subjects: Friends and associates, Arson, Adventure and adventurers, Sources, Fires, Tom Sawyer (Fictitious character), Fire fighters, History, Biography
Places: San Francisco (Calif.), California, San Francisco
People: Tom Sawyer (1832-1906), Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Time periods: 19th century