The Wages of Lead

By Jim Head
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Length1h 15m

About this audiobook

In the silver mines of Silverado, Colorado, a man can disappear underground and no one asks too many questions. The ore keeps coming up. The company keeps paying. And the dead stay buried. Thomas Greer spent three months writing it all down — the rotting timbers, the flooded shafts, the foremen who threatened workers who complained. He sent his findings to a Denver newspaper and waited for someone to act. Six days later, he was dead at the bottom of Shaft Nine. The company called it an accident. His widow, Clara, calls it murder. When Reverend Elias Cane rides into Silverado to hold a Sunday service, he finds a town that belongs to the Consolidated Silver Company — its housing, its store, its church, its law. Men who ask questions lose their jobs. Women who speak out lose their homes. And a circuit rider who starts looking into a dead miner's notes might find himself looking down a very deep shaft.

Audiobook details

GenreMystery and Thriller
Length1 hr 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1A Circuit Rider Mystery — Book Three
13Chapter Nine
2CAST OF CHARACTERS
14Chapter Ten
3PART ONE
15Chapter Eleven
4Chapter One
16Chapter Twelve
5Chapter Two
17Chapter Thirteen
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6Chapter Three
18Chapter Fourteen
7Chapter Four
19Chapter Fifteen
8Chapter Five
20Chapter Sixteen
9Chapter Six
21A Note on the Historical Setting
10Chapter Seven
22About The Author
11Chapter Eight
23Circuit Rider Mysteries
12PART TWO

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