A mystery for Thoreau
By: Kin Platt ; foreword by Christopher J. Platt.
Contributors: Platt, Christopher.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780374353377
Subjects: Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862 -- Fiction; Journalists -- Fiction; Murder -- Fiction; Algonquin Indians -- Fiction; Indians of North America -- Massachusetts -- Fiction; Mystery and detective stories; Concord (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1846 Concord, Massachusetts, sixteen-year-old Oliver Puckle, a reporter for his uncle's newspaper, investigates a woman's murder, aided by the tracking skills of his Algonquin friend, Charley Bigbow, and the deductive skills of Henry David Thoreau.