The Deserter

Murder at Gettysburg

Hardcover, 256 pages

English language

Published June 9, 2003 by St. Martin's Minotaur.

ISBN:
978-0-312-30186-6
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OCLC Number:
51389335

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Jane Langton has set part of this dramatic story in the present and part during the great battle of Gettysburg. In the here-and-now, Homer and Mary Kelly try to trace the mysterious shame attached to the name of Mary's ancestor, Seth Morgan, a young student who served his country during the Civil War. In other chapters the secrets of what happened to Seth all those many years ago are unraveled in Jane Langton’s inimitable style.

As Homer and Mary combine clues from both the past and present, they finally solve the perplexing puzzle of what really happened to Seth Morgan. In a final chapter some of the famous men and women of the 1860's speak up, and Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural brings the story to an eloquent close.

3 editions

Subjects

  • Mystery & Detective - General
  • Kelly, Homer (Fictitious character)
  • Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysb
  • Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
  • Mystery/Suspense
  • Mystery & Detective - Historical
  • Military deserters
  • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
  • Gettysburg (Pa.)
  • Fiction
  • Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
  • Kelly, Homer (Fictitious chara