Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.
328 pages
English language
Published 2013
Subjects
- Fiction
- Nineteenth century
- Partnership
- Cruelty
- Funeral rites and ceremonies