Compass in the Blood

Compass in the Blood
Author William E. Coles, Jr.
Country United States
Language English
Genre Novel
Publisher Atheneum Books
Publication date
2001
Media type Print (hardback)
Pages 272 pp
ISBN 0-689-83181-1
OCLC 43798298
Preceded by Another Kind of Monday

Compass in the Blood is a young-adult novel by the American writer William E. Coles, Jr. (1932–2005) set in 1990s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Synopsis

It tells the story of Dee Armstrong, a freshman journalism student at the University of Pittsburgh, who is inspired to investigate one of the city's most notorious crimes. In 1902 Kate Soffel, the wife of the warden of the Allegheny County Jail, conducted an adulterous affair with a prisoner, Ed Biddle, and helped him and his brother Jack in a daring jailbreak.[1]

References

  1. "Compass in the Blood (2001), Publishers Weekly, 2001.". ISBN 0689831811.


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