Antietam Assassins (Harrison Raines Civil War Mysteries
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: November 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780727862723
Subjects: Crime & mystery; War fiction; Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Fiction; Mystery/Suspense; Chronological Period/1851-1899; Civil War, 1861-1865; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Mystery/ Detective; History; Topical/Civil War; United States; Mystery & Detective - General; War & Military; Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862; Investigation; Murder; Raines, Harrison (Fictitious character); Virginia
Description: As agent and scout for famed detective Allan Pinkerton's Secret Service in the first eighteen months of the American Civil War, Harry Raines has repeatedly risked his own life and experienced unbelievable horrors. Sick of it, he resigns from the service and retires to the horse farm he inherited from his mother in the upper Potomac Valley near Shepherdstown, Virginia. The idyll is quickly interrupted, however, when the local Presbyterian minister, a family friend, is found shot and hanged in lynch mob fashion,
Notes: Hardcover