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Deadly shoals / Joan Druett.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 1452
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Druett, Joan.
- Series:
- Druett, Joan. Wiki Coffin series
- Wiki Coffin series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842).
- Coffin, Wiki (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Coffin, Wiki (Fictitious character).
- United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)--Fiction.
- United States Exploring Expedition.
- Americans--Foreign countries--Fiction.
- Americans.
- Americans--Foreign countries.
- Scientific expeditions.
- Linguists--Fiction.
- Linguists.
- Scientific expeditions--Fiction.
- Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)--Fiction.
- Patagonia (Argentina and Chile).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Sea stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 290 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007.
- Summary:
- A New England whaler shows up, desperate to find the devious trader who has cheated him of a thousand dollars and a schooner. Wiki is assigned to find the missing ship, only to follow a trail of clues to a dead body, half-buried in a hill of salt, its skull picked clean by vultures. The adventure unravels in the impoverished village of El Carmen de Patagones, where the threat of French invasion is imminent, and business is at a standstill under the orders of General de Rosas, the tyrant of Buenos Aires. Wiki must risk both life and reputation in pursuit of a vicious and determined killer who has set his sights on another target: the U.S. Exploring Expedition itself.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-290).
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Schimme Collection copy has burn hole in hinge of back free endpaper and back pastedown.
- ISBN:
- 9780312353377
- 0312353375
- OCLC:
- 163604952
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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