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Return to Book Page. Preview — The Maynwarings by Digger Cartwright. A Game of Chance by Digger Cartwright. Family friends have taken to gambling.
Cattle rustlers have increased activity around the massive ranch. A mysterious stranger, Giddeon Van Thorn, has arrived in town on secretive business. A political opponent and the press have launched When United States Senator Barron Maynwaring returns to his family and his beloved ranch, the Greenbrier, much has changed in Carson City. A political opponent and the press have launched attacks on Barron and his family. As bodies mount and the Maynwarings are bushwhacked, it becomes apparent that a sinister game of chance will determine the fate of the Greenbrier and the future of Carson City… yet in this high stakes game of chance nothing is as it seems!
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Arthur Maynwaring or Mainwaring (9 July –13 November ) was an English official, Whig politician, and author. The Maynwarings [Digger Cartwright] on www.farmersmarketmusic.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Maynwarings has received the following recognition: Finalist in.
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Digger achieves another fantastic piece of writing with The Maynwarings. From the very beginning he sets the stage for readers to become engrossed with the intricacies of an intriguing and manipulative plot. Although longer than most novels I read, I finished this book in two days because I could not put it down! He outlines the character of Senator Barron with such precision, it was very easy as a reader to understand exactly the ki Original review posted on briannasbookreview.
He outlines the character of Senator Barron with such precision, it was very easy as a reader to understand exactly the kind of man this character is. However, the plot has an incredible level of depth it provided Barron, along with the other characters, situations in which their darker and more treacherous features could be portrayed.
Part of my enjoyment from this novel stems from Digger's perpetual efforts of keeping his readers on the edge of their seats. Although there is a lot happening with both the plot and characters, I never felt lost or that I needed to re-read something for it to make sense, which can often happen when the writing is cramped or the author does not have the tools to navigate a detailed storyline. I also really enjoyed the setting Digger chose for this novel as it was set shortly after the Civil War. It is easy to see how knowledgeable he is about this time period and what it would have been like to live during it through his scene descriptions.
I highly recommend this novel if you are looking for a maturely written, gripping mystery with excellent character descriptions. Sep 04, Paul rated it it was amazing. Set in the Nevada Territory just after the Civil War, this novel is about a family for whom things suddenly start going very badly. The Maynwarings are one of the founding families in Carson City, the territory's capital.
Barron, the family patriarch, is a United States Senator. The conversion of recusants. The undeceiving of seduced sectaries. Mainwaring's name is usually thus spelt by his contemporaries, though on the title-page of his printed sermons it is given Maynwayring.
He was probably connected, but remotely, with the Maynwarings or Mainwarings' of Over Peover and Ightfield, whose name, according to Lower, assumes different forms Patronym. He died in Manwood married Mary Crayford, of a Kentish family, by whom he had issue. His estate of Priors, part of the dissolved priory of Blackmore, in the parish of Bromfield, Essex, remained in his posterity till the last century, when the male line became extinct. The first published edition of this excellent work, much enlarged and improved, appeared in , London, 4to; 2nd edit. A new and enlarged edition was published in with the title: And what a Forest is in his owne proper Nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a Chase, a Parke, or a Warren, with all such Things as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their severall proper Tearmes of Art.
Also a Treatise of the Pourallee, declaring what Pourallee is, how the same first began, what a Pourallee man may do, how he may hunt and use his owne Pourallee, how farre he may pursue and follow after his Chase, together with the Limits and Bounds, as well of the Forest as the Pourallee.