"The Golden Lady"

by Dorothy Gardiner

Novel of the daughter of a professional gambler and a prostitute who climbs and falls from the social ladder of a Colorado mining town

498 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1936

About the author

Dorothy Gardiner was born November 5, 1894 in Naples, Italy to John Gardiner (a Scot) and Maud Clark; daughter of James Maxwell Clark - a founder of Greeley, Colorado, USA. Because of John's friendship with Sir Francis Galton (cousin of Charles Darwin, inventor of fingerprinting): Dorothy was the first baby ever to be fingerprinted. Her fingerprints are still housed at the Fingerprint Museum at Scotland Yard. John was the first head of biology at the University Of Colorado. Dorothy Gardiner grew up in Boulder and graduated from U Of C in 1917, with a degree in History. During World War II, from 1941 to1945, she was in charge of all the files and records for the North Atlantic Area office of the American Red Cross. In 1947 the U Of C awarded her its Recognition Medal. She was the Executive Secretary of the Mystery Writers Of America Inc. from 1950-1957. She became a well-known author publishing ten books (three on the early American West, one on the history of the West before the Union Pacific Railroad, and six detective novels). Her main series characters are Sheriff Moss Magill and Mr. Watson. She died December 4, 1979.