Undertaker's Wife

From award-winning author Loren D. Estleman comes The Undertakers Wife. The undertakers wife waits she weaves she builds.. The undertaker practices his art the Dismal Trade with consummate skill. He has raised it to an art through the high craft of the Connable Method. Through it he has managed to transform the ugliness of death into a thing of dignity and beauty. Victims brutalized by war street fights tavern brawls ambushes fires every hazard in a raw West―these in his hands become presentable. Everywhere on the frontier which erupts with life and death he offers his skill: to the rich of San Francisco the bawds and ruffians of the Barbary Coast to Kansas cowboys outlaws soldiers and sheriffs. He is devoted to dignifying the dead.. She is devoted to making her marriage whole in spite of the tragedy that surrounds it; and most especially in spite of the tragedy that in one terrible afternoon strikes at its center.. Today the undertaker is called to disguise the suicide of a famous financier. It is high drama for only his art can save Americans financial markets. Her task on this day is secret an act of understanding and dedication.. In the end it is the undertakers wife who through love is able to transcend death.