Gwen Bristow Books In Order

Plantation Trilogy Books In Publication Order

  1. Deep Summer (1937)
  2. The Handsome Road (1938)
  3. This Side of Glory (1940)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Tomorrow is Forever (1943)
  2. Jubilee Trail (1950)
  3. Celia Garth (1959)
  4. Calico Palace (1970)
  5. Golden Dreams (1980)
  6. The Invisible Host (2020)
  7. The Gutenberg Murders (2020)
  8. The Mardi Gras Murders (2020)
  9. Two and Two Make Twenty-Two (2020)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. From Pigtails to Wedding Bells (1977)

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Gwen Bristow Books Overview

Jubilee Trail

The history of California in the mid 19th century comes alive in this captivating historical novel. Garnet Cameron, a fashionable young lady of New York, is leading a neat, proper life, full of elegant parties and polite young men, yet the prospect of actually marrying any of them appalls her. Yearning for adventure, she instead marries Oliver Hale, a wild trader who is about to cross the mountains and deserts to an unheard of land called California. During Garnet and Oliver’s honeymoon in New Orleans, she meets a dance hall performer on the lam who calls herself Florinda Grove and is also traveling to California. Along the Jubilee Trail, Garnet and Florinda meet kinds of men never known to them before, and together they make their painstaking way over the harsh trail to Los Angeles, learning how to live without compromise and discover both true friendship and true love.

Celia Garth

Bringing to life the heady days of the American Revolution through the eyes of a hero*ine who played a brave and dramatic part in the conflict, this novel follows Celia Garth, a Charleston native, as she transforms from a fashionable dressmaker to a patriot spy. When the king’s army captures Charleston and sweeps through the Carolina countryside in a wave of blood, fire, and debauchery, the rebel cause seems all but lost. But when Francis Marion, a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army known as ‘The Swamp Fox,’ recruits Celia as a spy, the tides of war begin to shift. This classic historical novel captures the fervor of 18th century Charleston, the American Revolution, and a woman who risked her life for the patriot cause.

Calico Palace

This thrilling story of the California gold rush is not about the forty niners, the prospectors who came rushing to the San Francisco area in 1849, but about the men and women who were there when it all began with the first discovery of gold in 1848, when San Francisco was a village of 900 people. These were the people who went up to the hills and came back staggering under the weight of the treasure they carried, and who began transforming San Francisco from a shantytown into one of the most brilliant cities in the world. This novel tells the unforgettable story of how these people walked into one of the most spectacular adventures in the world’s history. They saw the first samples of gold brought to the quartermaster, who said they were flakes of yellow mica. They were there when the first people who saw the gold were laughed at and called crackbrains. And they laid the foundation of the golden empire before the first forty niners got there. Some of them could not meet the demands of this strange new world; others grew stronger and shared the greatness of the country they had helped build. Calico Palace is their story brought to vivid life.

The Invisible Host

1930. The Invisible Host is the first novel published by the husband and wife team of Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning. The tale of murder was based on a facetious scheme to get rid of a neighbor whose raucous radio disturbed them day and night. The novel begins: That makes thirty seven words, said the girl. Will you read the telegram again? came the voice over the wire. She read: Congratulations stop plans afoot for small surprise party in your honor Bienville penthouse next Saturday eight o’clock stop all sub rose big surprise stop maintain secrecy stop promise you most original party ever staged in New Orleans Signed Your host.

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