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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