No Bottom/a Masey Baldridge/Luke Williamson Mystery - Hardcover

Brewer, James D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802731783 ISBN 13: 9780802731784

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1994

Synopsis

In a mystery set during the Civil War era, Masey Baldridge, an investigator for the Mid-South Insurance Company, suspects foul play when Luke Williamson's riverboat goes down.

About this title

About the Author:

James D. Brewer is a former instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

From Publishers Weekly:

Life along the Mississippi during Reconstruction makes a stunning background for this dramatic historical mystery that echoes the works of Mark Twain and Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind . Luke Williamson is co-owner of the Paragon and the Mary Justice , two packet steamers that carry passengers and cargo up and down the Mississippi. When the Mary Justice sinks eight miles north of Natchez, apparently having struck a treacherous sand bar or sunken tree, the cargo, passengers and captain, who is Luke's good friend and visionary business partner, are lost. Luke can't understand how Ed Smythe, a seasoned pilot, could have run aground or why the ship wasn't able to limp into port. Upon learning that Ed had taken out an $8000 bank note against their company, Luke realizes that unless he can clear the partnership's name, his ownership of the Paragon is threatened. To avoid foreclosure, he plans a daring final run downriver at the beginning of "low water" season, while the mystery of the Mary Justices' s exploding boiler is explored by alcoholic insurance-claim investigator, Masey Baldridge. Brewer fashions the uneasy alliance between Williamson and Baldridge and the tensions of the post-Civil War South into a fine historical novel with a fully satisfying conclusion.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0802731783
• ISBN 13: 9780802731784
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 249