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Skull in the Ashes
Peter Kaufman
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Description for Skull in the Ashes
Num Pages: 298 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
On a February night in 1897, the general store in Walford, Iowa, burned down. The next morning, townspeople discovered a charred corpse in the ashes. Everyone knew that the store’s owner, Frank Novak, had been sleeping in the store as a safeguard against burglars. Now all that remained were a few of his personal items scattered under the body.
At first, it seemed to be a tragic accident mitigated just a bit by Novak’s foresight in buying generous life insurance policies to provide for his family. But soon an investigation by the ambitious new county attorney, M. J. ... Read more
On a February night in 1897, the general store in Walford, Iowa, burned down. The next morning, townspeople discovered a charred corpse in the ashes. Everyone knew that the store’s owner, Frank Novak, had been sleeping in the store as a safeguard against burglars. Now all that remained were a few of his personal items scattered under the body.
At first, it seemed to be a tragic accident mitigated just a bit by Novak’s foresight in buying generous life insurance policies to provide for his family. But soon an investigation by the ambitious new county attorney, M. J. ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Iowa Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
Number of Pages
298
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781609381882
SKU
V9781609381882
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About Peter Kaufman
Peter Kaufman is the author of the novel Barometer’s Shadow.
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