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Part I (Pages 1 - 67)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Walter, Jess. The Cold Millions. HarperCollins, New York, 2020.

• This novel was written in the past tense and from a mix of first and third-person points of view.

• In the first chapter, titled Waterbury, 1909, a police patrolman named Alfred Waterbury was doing rounds with two colleagues in a wealthier section of Spokane, Washington coming into the winter of 1909.

• Waterbury liked the Acting Police Chief, John Sullivan, and he tried to be an honest cop.

• Waterbury shied away from the police on the force, including one named Clegg, who were more brutal toward civilians and who also were known to take bribes.

• The three patrolman split up doing their rounds, and Waterbury thought he saw one of them and greeted him, but then Waterbury heard a crack and realized he had been shot...

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