Title: The constable's tale
Description: "When a traveling peddler discovers the murder of a farm family in colonial North Carolina whose bodies have been left in bizarre positions, circumstances point to an Indian attack. But Harry Woodyard, a young planter who is the volunteer constable of Craven County during a period in America's past when there was no professional police force, finds clues that seem to indicate otherwise." --
Subjects: Murder, Investigation, Constables, Colonies, History, Fiction, Fiction, historical, North carolina, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: United States, Great Britain, America
Time periods: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775