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Country United States Publication date 2001 Pages 272 pp Originally published 2001 Preceded by Another Kind of Monday Publisher Atheneum Books | 3/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (hardback) ISBN 0-689-83181-1 Genre Novel OCLC 43798298 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Compass in the Blood is a young-adult novel by the American writer William E. Coles, Jr. (1932–2005) set in 1990s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Synopsis
It tells the story of Dee Armstrong, a freshman journalism student at the University of Pittsburgh, who is inspired to investigate one of the city's most notorious crimes. In 1902 Kate Soffel, the wife of the warden of the Allegheny County Jail, conducted an adulterous affair with a prisoner, Ed Biddle, and helped him and his brother Jack in a daring jailbreak.
References
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