Jean M. West

Anguish at Antietam: a Mystery of the Civil War Jean M. West

Rob McEntee is delighted by the prospect of accompanying Brady photographer Alexander Gardner through Maryland as McClellan's Army of the Potomac marches to intercept the invading Robert E. Lee. His brother, Andrew, recently mustered out of Ellsworth's Zouaves, has no illusions and packs up hospital supplies in their darkroom on wheels. Neither can imagine that they are about to be swept up into murder most foul on America's bloodiest day in Anguish at Antietam. Civil War photographs and woodcuts embellish the tale. Anguish at Antietam is the third in a series of Jean West Civil War mysteries. In Mayhem at Manassas, Robert McEntee's life is upended by the arrival of the New York Fire Department Zouaves in Washington, D. C. at the outset of the Civil War, drawing him into murder and espionage. During Peril on the Peninsula, the McEntee brothers find themselves enmeshed in murder and the clash between the Monitor and Merrimack. Look for the upcoming fourth mystery, Furor in Fredericksburg: A rock thrown during a brawl between Georgetown Boys and Washington "City Pigs" on Rock Creek Bridge sends out ripples that engulf not only Rob and his brother Andrew, but General McClellan and the bewhiskered General Burnside, detective Allen Pinkerton, photographer Mathew Brady, nurse Clara Barton, and the mysterious Rebel spy -- Thomas Nelson Conrad.