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1) Dead March
Author
Series
[Civil War mystery] volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In 1860s Virginia, Narcissa Powers investigates charges that doctors in a medical school killed a black woman for anatomical specimens. The charge was made by her brother, a medical student who robbed graves for body parts for the school.
Author
Series
Civil War mystery volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
McMillan's haunting second Civil War mystery features the return of detective duo Narcissa Powers and Judah Daniel. A colonel on leave comes home to find his family butchered and his servants clutching knives and raving about spirits, but the weapons don't match the wounds. Are rebellious slaves to blame for this crime, or could it be the work of an avenging angel?
Author
Series
[Civil War mystery] volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In May 1862 the Confederate capital, Richmond, Va., faces both Yankee encroachment and the spread of slow murder from paper money tainted with smallpox, in McMillan's third well-researched historical (after Dead March and Angel Trumpet). Abetted by Judah Daniel, a former slave and herbal healer, and Brit Wallace, a jaunty English journalist, war nurse Narcissa Powers must search for answers under the eyes of plug-uglies from Baltimore, hired to maintain...
Author
Series
[Civil War mystery] volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Ann McMillan has a gift for seamlessly weaving together a "rollicking good mystery and meticulously researched slice of history" (Richmond Times-Dispatch). In Chickahominy Fever she has done it once again, combining suspense with elegant period detail and bringing to life a sweeping, rich, and complex cast of characters from every echelon of Southern society. It is the summer of 1862. The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, its hospitals already...
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