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- Publisher: St Martins Pr (1993)
- ASIN: B000OT2THO
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Wonderful taste of history/mystery,
This review is from: North Star Conspiracy (Mass Market Paperback)
This wonderful and touching mystery gives wonderful insight into life before the Civil War in various parts of the United States. The characters are extremely well drawn--the reader develops real concern and care for them--and seem very representative of the times. This would be a challenging time period to write about and Monfredo does it with compassion. An excellent series best read in order but don't let that stop you from reading any of them. I can't wait for the next one.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A terrific whodunnit, with a marvelous cast of characters,
By drdebs (CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: North Star Conspiracy (Mass Market Paperback)
Miriam Grace Monfredo is one of the best historical mystery writers today, and her skills are well displayed in this book, the second in the Glynis Tryon series set in the upstate New York town of Seneca Falls in the middle of the 19th century. Glynis is the town librarian, with a strong belief in women's suffrage (along with her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton). Until this story unfolds, however, she has been less supportive of the abolitionist cause which was strongly supported around Seneca Falls through participation in the Underground Railroad. Through the events linked to this murder mystery, however, Glynis is forced to rethink her position and ends up travelling as far as Richmond to fight against the Fugitive Slave Act.One of the best things about Monfredo's stories is that she shares with you an entire town, in all its complexity and liveliness. Every character in the book is lovingly and lavishly drawn, and several plots unfold simultaneously which gives the stories a feeling of authenticity that is hard to beat. You will want to rush out and buy the next story (Blackwater Spirits) immediately, to see how Glynis's friendship with the new Seneca/French constable, Jacques, turns out!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Historical Fiction At Its Best,
This review is from: North Star Conspiracy (Mass Market Paperback)
I loved this book. Though it is the second in the series, it was the first one for me, and I intend to read the rest of the series now. It rates a close second to City Of Light in the realm of historical fiction based in my part of NY State. I like that it includes real characters along with the most important issues of the time, and murder, mystery, romance and good fictional character development.
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A LONG WAIL of warning blew from the steam whistle of a New York Central locomotive, two passenger cars ahead of the one that librarian Glynis Tyron occupied. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Seneca Falls, Judge Trumbull, Miss Tryon, New York, Jacques Sundown, Ian Bentham, Reverend Eames, Michael Olivant, Tavus Sligh, Niles Peartree, Eebard Peck, Fall Street, Moses Rawlings, Chantal Dupont, John Hamilton, Fugitive Slave Law, Lyle Brogan, Thomas Farley, Aunt Glynis, Elizabeth Stanton, Vanessa Usher, Calista Sligh, Captain Cutteback, Frederick Douglass, Isaiah Smith New!
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A LONG WAIL of warning blew from the steam whistle of a New York Central locomotive, two passenger cars ahead of the one that librarian Glynis Tyron occupied. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Seneca Falls, Judge Trumbull, Miss Tryon, New York, Jacques Sundown, Ian Bentham, Reverend Eames, Michael Olivant, Tavus Sligh, Niles Peartree, Eebard Peck, Fall Street, Moses Rawlings, Chantal Dupont, John Hamilton, Fugitive Slave Law, Lyle Brogan, Thomas Farley, Aunt Glynis, Elizabeth Stanton, Vanessa Usher, Calista Sligh, Captain Cutteback, Frederick Douglass, Isaiah Smith New!
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- Bleak House (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on 5 pages
- Bleak House (Macmillan Readers) by Dickens on 5 pages
- Frederick Douglass by Booker T. Washington on page 165, and Back Matter
- The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories: The Whole Story by Edgar Allan Poe on page 153
- Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry David Thoreau on page 161
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- Blackwater Spirits by Miriam Grace Monfredo in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Murder at Manasses (Harrison Raines Civil War Mysteries, Book 1) by Michael Kilian in Front Matter
- The Economics of W.S. Jevons (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) by Sandra Peart in Back Matter
- Uneasy Alliance: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography (Costerus NS 150) by Hans Bak on page 341
- Managing the Mystery Collection: From Creation to Consumption by Judith Overmier on page 198
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