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Samuel Merwin, Sr.
Books by Samuel Merwin, Sr.
Merry Anne
Set on the Great Lakes in 1904, this maritime adventure follows our hero as he gets caught up in a smuggling scheme that threatens his boat and his love life. The fast-paced plot and modern villains keep the story grounded in reality.
Calumet “K”
Calumet "K" follows the story of a young man navigating the complex world of Chicago's grain industry. He faces intense rivalries, labor disputes, and romantic challenges as he strives to build his career and find love amidst the bustling and ever-ch...
Short Line War
The Short Line War follows the story of Jim Weeks, a successful businessman who finds himself caught in a conflict between two competing railroad companies. The novel explores the cutthroat world of business and the power dynamics of politics, while...
Hattie of Hollywood
No writer has ever caught the true spirit of the camera world and translated it into words as Mr. Merwin has done in this remarkable story. Hattie Johnson, a factory girl, just budding into womanhood, without beauty, without brains, without aspiratio...
Drugging a Nation
Drugging a Nation is a journalistic reveal of the extent to which the British Empire was culpable in the dissemination and subsequent near total addiction to opium of the Chinese people in the nineteenth century. So weak did it make China, that is wa...