Title | Eye of the Raven: A Mystery of Colonial America |
Year of Publication | 2009 |
Publication Type | Novel |
Series Title | Bone Rattler Series, 2/6 |
Number of Pages or Episodes | 339 p. |
Language | English |
Authors | Pattison, Eliot |
Publisher | Counterpoint |
City | Berkeley, CA |
Keywords | Battle of the Monongahela; Braddock Expedition; Christopher Gist (1706-59); Daniel Boone (1734-1820); Edward Braddock (1695-1755); French and Indian War; George Washington (1732-99); Jesuits; John Fraser (1721-73); Native Americans; physicians; private investigators; Protestants; Quakers; Roman Catholics; Scottish Americans; soldiers; surveyors |
Abstract | Duncan McCallum and his close friend, Conawago, a Jesuit-trained member of the Nipmuc tribe, stumble into a case with potentially far-reaching repercussions for a peace treaty between the Iroquois and the British. |
Notes | Bedford is referred to as Raystown, as it was then known. |
Author Biography | Eliot Pattison (1951— ), born in Philadelphia, graduated from Indiana University at Bloomington and earned a law degree at Boston University. An Edgar Award winner, he writes mysteries on an 18th-century farm in Berks County, Pennsylvania. |
Time | 1760s |