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- Title: Jean of the Lazy A
- Author : B. M. Bower
- Release Date : January 12, 2019
- Genre: Fiction,Books,Young Adult,Mysteries & Thrillers,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3395 KB
Description
This was B. M. Bower’s 15th novel, and like her The Phantom Herd a year later, it draws on her knowledge of the movie business. Sixteen-year-old Jean Douglas, the title character, is a no-nonsense daughter of a Montana rancher, Aleck Douglas, who in the opening chapters is wrongly found guilty of murder and sent to prison. With the help of a ranch hand, Lite Avery, she spends the rest of the novel finding the real killer.
Help also comes in the form of a movie company from Hollywood, which hires her as the stunt double for the leading lady of an action-packed western. Able to ride, rope, and shoot with ease, Jean also contributes ideas for making the film more realistic. Before long she is dreaming up scenarios for a Perils of Pauline-style serial, with herself in the starring role...