Red Jacket - A Lute Bapcat Mystery

Informationen zum Autor Joseph Heywood is the author of The Snowfly (Lyons), Covered Waters (Lyons), The Berkut, Taxi Dancer, The Domino Conspiracy-and the eight novels comprising the Woods Cop Mystery Series. Featuring Grady Service, a detective in the Upper Peninsula for Michigan's Department of Natural Resources, this series has earned its author cult status among lovers of the outdoors, law enforcement officials, and mystery devotees. Heywood lives in Portage, Michigan. For more on Joseph Heywood and the Woods Cop Mysteries, visit the author's web site at www.josephheywood.com. Klappentext From the author of the Woods Cop mysteries comes a new historical mystery set in 1913, featuring Rough Rider turned game warden Lute Bapcat, orphan, loner, former cowboy, Rough Rider, beaver trapper, a man who in 1913, with the enthusiastic recommendation by the Theodore Roosevelt, himself, becomes one of the Michigan's first civil service game wardens. In Red Jacket, he confronts an explosive, bloody labor strike; a siege-like sabotage, including a sudden rash of decapitated, spoiled deer; poisoned trout streams and well water; and unusual deforestation all apparently designed by mine owners to deny nature's bounty to the strikers, and thereby to break the union."

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Heywood, Heywood Joseph
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.2012
• EAN: 9780762782536
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-8253-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Lute Bapcat Mysteries; Lute Bapcat Mysteries
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical mysteries, Michigan, Fiction: general & literary, Midwest