The Chisholms

Plot

Product Description A family as raw and unyielding as the soil of the Virginia farm they left behind, they pursued their dream, journeying west across the American continent. In a boundless land of unimaginable dangers, they discovered their own will for survival -- and forged a triumph of the human spirit. Review The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) The best wagon train epic since A. B. Guthrie'sThe Way West. --Review About the Author Evan Hunter's first novel,The Blackboard Jungle, was an instant bestseller. He wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock'sThe Birds, and his novelsStrangers When We Meet andLast Summer were made into hit movies; his novelCriminal Conversation has been optioned for film by Tom Cruise. Under the name Ed McBain, he has written the astounding 87th Precinct series. From Cop Hater and the Edgar Award-nominated Money, Money, Money to The Frumious Bandersnatch, the more than fifty novels in the series have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. He holds the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award, and was the first American to receive the British Crime Writers Association's prestigious Diamond Dagger Award. Evan Hunter and his alter ego Ed McBain combined their talents to create Candyland, a novel in two parts, available from Pocket Books. The most recent Evan Hunter novel, The Moment She Was Gone, is also available from Pocket Books.