Killing Mister Watson Author:Peter Matthiessen By the author of "Far Tortuga", "The Snow Leopard", and "At Play in the Fields of the Lord". Set in the Florida Everglades a century ago, the novel is based on the legend of Edgar J. Watson,the man said to have gunned down female outlaw Belle Starr. The book starts with the murder of Watson by a group of his neighbors. The rest of the story is... more » a slow piecing together of the puzzle that explains how this event came to pass. The tale is told through the recollections of his family and neighbors, and from magazines, letters, and other historical papers. While it is intended that that the book read with the deadpan of an oral history,those imagined --or "reimagined"--witnesses provide a rich chorus.« less