Compass in the Blood

Compass in the Blood
Author(s)	William E. Coles, Jr.
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Novel
Publisher	Atheneum Books
Publication date	2001
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	272 pp
ISBN	0-689-83181-2
OCLC Number	43798298
Preceded by	Another Kind of Monday

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.^[1]

References

1. ^ Compass in the Blood (2001), Publishers Weekly, 2001.. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0689831811. 

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