@book{284,
  keywords = {Pittsburgh Police, Mellon Bank, labor strikes, trade unions, Polish Americans, veterans, Korean War, surgeons, U. S. Bureau of Mines, United Mine Workers, Black Americans, private investigators, Protestants, coal industry},
  author = {Horace McCoy},
  title = {Scalpel},
  abstract = {Forty-three-year-old army surgeon and Korean War veteran Tom Owen returns home to Coalville, a hard-bitten, fictitious, Monongahela Valley town, after his brother’s accidental mining death. Tom falls in love with the mine owner’s gorgeous daughter, gives up his working-class idealism, and moves his medical practice to posh Pittsburgh.},
  year = {1952},
  pages = {373 p.},
  publisher = {Appleton-Century-Crofts},
  address = {New York},
  language = {English},
}