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The night inspector : a novel / Frederick Busch.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.U814 N54 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Busch, Frederick, 1941-2006.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political corruption.
- Journalists.
- Creoles.
- Crimes against humanity.
- Slavery.
- Stockbrokers.
- History.
- Veterans.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans.
- United States.
- Stockbrokers--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Fiction.
- Melville, Herman.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Florida.
- Slavery--Florida--Fiction.
- Crimes against humanity--United States--Fiction.
- Creoles--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Journalists--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Political corruption--New York (Stste)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harmony Books, [1999]
- Summary:
- New York City, 1867: Repulsed by the revelation that the conversion of black souls into merchandise has not ceased after the Civil War, a veteran finds himself drawn into a steamy underworld of murderers, whores, and sewer and slum dwellers.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0609602357
- OCLC:
- 40682698
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