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1	[[http://www.amystewart.com/books/girl-waits-with-gun/ Girl Waits With Gun]] is a story closely based on the life of Constance Kopp, the first woman to become a Deputy Sheriff in America. The book describes the case that brought her to the Sheriff's attention in the first place.
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3	Three sisters, living alone on a farm, are travelling into town one day when their carriage is hit and destroyed by a DrunkDriver, who turns out to be a powerful businessman. Subjected to a campaign of intimidation, they refuse to back down and insist on pursuing a claim for damages.
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5	Pieced together from news clippings, letters and interviews with one character's living son, the book is notable for the author's efforts to [[ShownTheirWork cite sources]] and to admit which parts she made up.
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7	The title itself was a headline from the Philadelphia Sun.
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9	!! This novel provides examples of:
10	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The author's notes state that she changed the date of Constance's mother's death and made up both the Lucy Blake subplot and the pigeons.
11	* BerserkButton: Kaufman's is being stood up to.
12	* BigBrotherInstinct: Well, Big Sister Instinct: The main event that gets the sisters into trouble is when Kaufman implies a threat to harm Fleurette, the youngest of the three, if they persist in trying to get him to pay damages. Constance responds by [[spoiler:slamming his head into the wall hard enough to damage both. Only later in the book do we discover this to be [[MamaBear a different trope]] at work.]]
13	* BrokenWindowWarning: Or brick-mail as Fleurette refers to it.
14	* DirtyCoward: Kaufman is only ever brave with bigger stronger friends around him.
15	* DrunkDriver: Kaufman is drunk when he crashes into the sisters' carriage.
16	* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Fleurette, [[spoiler:the youngest sister]], is actually [[spoiler:Constance's daughter]]. She doesn't know.
17	* GentleGiant: Constance is occasionally described as being big and imposing. She has no desire to make anybody's life difficult.
18	* MamaBear: After the FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo is known, an act of protection by that mother is revealed to be this.
19	* ShownTheirWork: The book contains references and lists of which details are fictional. There is more on the author's [[http://www.amystewart.com/characters/ website]]
20	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Anyone outside the family who tries to spell Fleurette's name ends up writing Florette.
21	* UnskilledButStrong: Constance is a large farmgirl and is only seen to fight men of relatively average strength, who she mostly pushes and/or holds.
22	* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The Lucy Blake subplot is fictional, though things like that did happen.

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