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Mystery
1880
America
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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