Big Peter

by Archibald Marshall

Excerpt from Big Peter
The owners of the Buckingham claim had struck it rich.
There were three of them, and it would have been difficult to find, in all the new gold-field of Kampurli, three partners who were less alike.
They were known as the Swell, Scotty and Big Peter.
No one knew the Swell's real name. He was a tall, handsome man, of perhaps five and thirty, and every feature of his face, every movement of his clean-built body, every tone of his rather low voice, marked him out as a man who had come of a very different stock and lived a very different life from the majority of those about him.
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298 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1922

About the author

Arthur Hammond Marshall (6 September 1866 – 29 September 1934), better known by his pen name Archibald Marshall, was an English author, publisher and journalist whose novels were particularly popular in the United States. He published over 50 books and was recognized as a realist in his writing style, and was considered by some as a successor to Anthony Trollope. Educated at Cambridge University, he was later (in 1921) made an honorary Doctor of Letters by Yale University. He travelled widely and made numerous notable acquaintances.