TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - German Americans
KW - Pittsburgh Police
KW - Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919)
KW - legal profession
KW - jailbreaks
KW - Jack Biddle (1872-1902)
KW - Ed Biddle (1876-1902)
KW - Kate Soffel (1867-1909)
KW - jail wardens
KW - college students
KW - judges
KW - journalists
KW - homosexuality
KW - Alexander Berkman (1870-1936)
KW - "Pittsburgh Memoranda" (1935)
KW - Protestants
AU - William E. Coles Jr.
AB - Dee Armstrong, a first-year journalism student at Pitt, is inspired to re-investigate the 1902 jailbreak of the notorious Biddle Brothers with help from the prison warden's wife, Kate Soffel. The young reporter learns Mrs. Soffel kept a secret prison diary and she sets out to find it despite many obstacles.
C1 - 1902-2000s
C3 - Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; North Side; Troy Hill; Troy Hill Cemetery; Marshall-Shadeland; Western Penitentiary (1882); South Side; Mt. Washington; Squirrel Hill; Smithfield Cemetery; Lawrenceville; Oaklan
C4 - Children’s; Young Adult; Mystery; Campus
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Dee Armstrong, a first-year journalism student at Pitt, is inspired to re-investigate the 1902 jailbreak of the notorious Biddle Brothers with help from the prison warden's wife, Kate Soffel. The young reporter learns Mrs. Soffel kept a secret prison diary and she sets out to find it despite many obstacles.
PB - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
PP - New York
PY - 2001
RN - William Coles (1932-2005) was born in New Jersey and for years was professor and director of composition at the University of Pittsburgh.
EP - 263 p.
TI - Compass in the Blood
ER -