Status Updates From Fool's Gold (Ira Adler #3)

I was, for the first time in several years of reading, rendered speechless by a secondary character. Thank you very much Cain Goddard.

"St. Andrews cocked his head. 'Bring me back a good story. Something with cowboys in it.' His expression grew dreamy. 'I so do like cowboys.'" +1000, would absolutely rather read a novel about St. Andrews, gay Sherlock Holmes otaku cosplayer detective :')

At least nowdays we all know what this beauty oil was used for...

From now on Goddrard is officially NOT my wish-candidate for Ira.

Now I can say it - I was correct with my assumption about the Colonel...

Don't know what's happening!

'Yet at some level, I’d thought he’d always find a way to make good his escape'

Can' help it, I still think so.

THAT was close...

Bass Reeves (July 1838 – 12 January 1910), one of the first African American Deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River, arrested over 3,000 felons and shot and killed fourteen outlaws in self-defense.

Pullman car circa 1890

The only people I’d ever known to wear tinted glasses were syphilitics, and that wasn’t the impression I wished to create.


HAHAHA! I have seen a lot of celebrities who do it. Maybe they are...? Well, it's like over one hundred years later that I am talking about, but who knows...

“But you know where my cock was at the time of the burglary,” I said. “I think you’d have noticed if the rest of me had stepped out for a moment.”

I name it a strong argument :)

Oh NOOOOO!

'The mind boggled. And the heart sank. I'd told Lawrence I'd be no more than a month, but I'd grossly underestimated both the size of the country and how long it would take to cross it. We'd be a month in transit alone.'

Finally, as I was wonder how he imagined going and coming back in just one month.

Oh my heart... Teutonic, not Titanic!

My first thought-to California per train?! Well, first of all they have to come out of London!


Victoria Station, London.



Built between 1875 and 1880, the station was one of Manchester’s main railway terminals, alongside Manchester London Railway Station – the now Piccadilly Railway Station.

But tonight, I was going to find a fireman.

I know, Ira will meet someone dressing like THIS:



but when I see "fireman", I have to think about someone undressing like THIS...



Forgive me my visuals!

end of Chap 6




An 1890 photo of firemen in London.

Okay, an explosive start...