A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage by Mark Twain

-John Grey is a farmer
-the setting is a small town, Deerlick
-Reverend John Hurly
-Mary Grey is John Grey's father and she wants to marry Hugh Gregory
-Sarah/Sally Grey is John's wife, Mary's mother
-Tom Grey is Mary's brother
-David Grey-very rich, brother to John, hates Hugh because he tried to cheat Hugh's father out of money/land and Hugh stopped him
-David and John don't like each other
-George Wayne/Count Hubert Dee Fountingblow/Jean Mercier
-David Grey and Hugh Gregory get in a tiff
-David Grey is murdered and Hugh Gregory is in jail for it
-the count pursues Mary Grey
-Hugh and Mary are trying to send each other messages, but John keeps them from doing so
-The count is going to marry Mary, but the hanging is scheduled for the same day as the wedding.
-Hugh doesn't get hung, the count is guilty of David Grey's murder
-Hugh and Mary get married.
-The count wanted to marry Mary to get her fortune that was to be left to her by her uncle, David Grey
-Jean Mercier talks about his revenge on Jules Verne and how he came to the prairie that he was in in the first place. (Mark Twain uses Jules Verne as a kind of condescending character in his book to directly reference the circumstance in which Jules Verne published a work that was almost exactly like what Twain was working on).