Echoes of L'Arbre Croche : a tale of murder & intrigue on the Great Lakes /
Johnston, Donald.
Echoes of L'Arbre Croche : a tale of murder & intrigue on the Great Lakes / Donald Johnston. - Ann Arbor : Univ of Michigan Press, 2009. - xv, 325 p. ; 23 cm.
Adapted and updated based on the original text of The Indian Drum, by William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer, 1917. -- Title page.
The year is 1915, and Benjamin Corvet, founder of the ship-owning firm Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman, suddenly disappears, sparking events and questions that baffle even those who are close to him. Constance Sherrill, an attractive, sheltered young woman, feels strangely responsible for what may have happened to him -- her father's best friend and coworker. Alan Conrad arrives in Chicago searching for his identity and an unknown benefactor and is swept into a maelstrom of mystery and intrigue that tests his intelligence and athleticism to the fullest. Henry Spearman, the firm's junior partner, is the most eligible bachelor along Chicago's Lake Shore Drive as a result of his catapult from ships' ranks to successful owner. When a ship sinks off the coast of Beaver Island in Michigan, the intertwining lives of these characters unlock the mystery of the disappearance of another ship twenty years earlier, in a riveting whodunit set on the stormy waters of the Great Lakes. -- Publisher description.
9780472033966 0472033964
Shipping--Fiction.--Great Lakes (North America)
Michigan--History--Fiction.--1837
Detective and mystery stories.
PS3560.O3875 / E27 2009
Echoes of L'Arbre Croche : a tale of murder & intrigue on the Great Lakes / Donald Johnston. - Ann Arbor : Univ of Michigan Press, 2009. - xv, 325 p. ; 23 cm.
Adapted and updated based on the original text of The Indian Drum, by William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer, 1917. -- Title page.
The year is 1915, and Benjamin Corvet, founder of the ship-owning firm Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman, suddenly disappears, sparking events and questions that baffle even those who are close to him. Constance Sherrill, an attractive, sheltered young woman, feels strangely responsible for what may have happened to him -- her father's best friend and coworker. Alan Conrad arrives in Chicago searching for his identity and an unknown benefactor and is swept into a maelstrom of mystery and intrigue that tests his intelligence and athleticism to the fullest. Henry Spearman, the firm's junior partner, is the most eligible bachelor along Chicago's Lake Shore Drive as a result of his catapult from ships' ranks to successful owner. When a ship sinks off the coast of Beaver Island in Michigan, the intertwining lives of these characters unlock the mystery of the disappearance of another ship twenty years earlier, in a riveting whodunit set on the stormy waters of the Great Lakes. -- Publisher description.
9780472033966 0472033964
Shipping--Fiction.--Great Lakes (North America)
Michigan--History--Fiction.--1837
Detective and mystery stories.
PS3560.O3875 / E27 2009