Death in Kingsport
By: Curtis Parkinson
Publisher: Tundra Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780887768279
Description: Kingsport, a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario, is struggling through the fall and winter of 1941 in the aftermath of the Great Depression. For fifteen year old Neil, life is simple and routine, until his favorite uncle, Chester, suddenly dies. At his uncle's cremation aboard a freighter in the harbor, Neil hears a thumping sound inside the coffin. Could Uncle Chester be alive?