A Hanging at Cinder Bottom

A Hanging at Cinder Bottom
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From the author of The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart and set in the boom years of the West Virginia coalmining industry, this is an epic story of personal ambition, exile and return, and a grand heist.Keystone, West Virginia, 1910In the hot August rain the townspeople gather to witness the first public hanging in over a decade. At the gallows are none other than poker player, Abe Baach, and his lover, the madam of the town’s brothel, one Goldie Toothman.Abe split town seven years prior and has been playing cards up and down the coast ever since. But when he returns to Keystone to reunite with Goldie and to set the past right, he finds a brother dead and his father's saloon in shambles – and suspects the same men might be responsible for both. Only then, in facing his family's past, does the real swindle begin.

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Glenn Taylor. A Hanging at Cinder Bottom

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Author’s Note

THEIR DAY HAD COME. August 21, 1910

ARE YOU A DRINKING MAN? September 22, 1877

QUEENS FULL OF FOURS. February 17, 1897

IT’S A TOAD-STRANGLER. May 15, 1903

THE CROWS WERE IN THE EVERGREENS. April 20, 1910. New York

THE PULPIT WOULD HAVE WHEELS. April 21, 1910

APRIL FOOLS’ HAS COME AND GONE. April 25, 1910

NO BUCKWHEATERS, NO CHICKENS. May 6, 1910

CYANOGEN GAS WILL IMPREGNATE THE ATMOSPHERE. May 18, 1910

A RADIANT AND BLOOD-RED ROOM. May 24, 1910

HIDE THE WHISKEY AND BEND THE KNEE. June 22, 1910

BET YOUR LAST COPPER ON JACK. July 4, 1910

TEN FUN OF THE NUMBER ONE. July 22, 1910

THEIR DAY HAD COME. August 21, 1910

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Also by Glenn Taylor

About the Publisher

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This one is for the people of McDowell County, West Virginia, past, present, and future

And belch their cinders at the fevered days.

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The game at the Alhambra would bring him what he’d always been after. It was something to ponder.

At the window, cold air issued in at the sill. The shade was half drawn, and below him, folks walked the dirt streets laughing. The restaurant beside Fat Ruth’s radiated the stench of hog fat burned black. The cook stood out front in an undershirt despite the cold. He picked his teeth with a thumbnail and watched the ladies coming to work. There were more than usual on account of the grand opening across the creek. There were white ladies and black ladies and foreign ladies too. Fat Ruth’s was the first in the Bottom to do such a thing, and that was fine by the cook. He said to each as she passed, “You looking every inch a peacock tonight.”

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