The WHOLE TOWN’S TALKING by Fannie Flagg

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Mystery
1880
America

Twenty-eight year old Swedish born Lordor Nordstrom discovers that there is American farmland to be bought cheap, so he goes for it and buys some rich Missouri land and by means of placing adverts in the papers to attract other young farmers to follow his example. After a decade he still has no wife, so once again decides to us the press.

Chicago maid, Katrina Olsen reads ‘Swedish man looking for Swedish lady for marriage. I have a house and cows,’ she also goes for it, despite fears of the wilderness and savage redskins and wildlife. Exchanging photographs and letters, which still do not prove whether she could be entangling herself with a violent man, she receives a train ticket, and the match is settled.

Lordor is proud of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where residents are now settling along with a preacher and someone to mind the store. It seems a nice, suitable town but Still Meadows cemetery – with land donated by our ’hero’ has something odd about it…

Fannie Flagg produces novels which abound with wonderful characters, although the mystery in this particular story is slow to reveal that there even is a mystery, let alone have it solved, but read on for the tale is an absolute delight.

© Anne Holt

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