No Certain Rest: A Novel
New York: Random House, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 222 pages. Map. Signed and inscribed by the author. In this intensely intriguing story of murder on the Civil War battlefield at Antietam, a Parks Department archaeologist finds out the truth about what happened and why the wrong man is buried in a small New England town. On a ridge overlooking Burnside Bridge, the focus of the Battle of Antietam, souvenir hunters find the unmarked grave of an unknown Union officer. Don Spaniel, an archaeologist in the National Park Service, is called in to examine the remains. He soon discovers that the officer was murdered and that his identification disk could not possibly belong to him, since its rightful owner is buried elsewhere. So who was this officer? Where did he come from? And why? Condition: Very good / very good.
Keywords: Sharpsburg, Maryland, National Park Service, Burnside Bridge, Civil War, Unmarked Grave, Murder, Historical Fiction, Forensics, Inscribed/Signed
ISBN: 0375503722
[Book #47012]
Price: $50.00