Civil Blood: A Civil War Mystery
by Ann McMillan (1952- )
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670899976
- ISBN 13
- 9780670899975
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
196 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black paper with gilt lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition with review notice laid in.
As Ann McMillan's Civil Blood opens, some Richmonders pour into the streets in celebration of a Union warship's defeat, while others--slaves, free blacks, Union sympathizers--mourn in secret. Unknown to all of them, another disaster threatens, quieter but more effective than warships: smallpox, the most contagious plague the world has ever known. The detective team of Narcissa Powers, a white widow turned Confederate nurse, and Judah Daniel, a free black herbalist, encounters a frightening possibility: the victims are being intentionally infected by tainted money flowing through Richmond's network of speculators and profiteers.
Condition: Near fine in a fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L1376
- Title
- Civil Blood: A Civil War Mystery
- Author
- Ann McMillan (1952- )
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670899976
- ISBN 13
- 9780670899975
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 196 pages
- Size
- Royal octavo
- Keywords
- Mystery, Espionage. Detective and Thriller
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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