BLACKWATER SPIRITS: A Glynis Tryon Historical Mystery ***SIGNED COPY*** by Monfredo, Miriam G - 1995

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1995. 1st edition, February 1995, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED by the author at title page. "...Monfredo's third historical mystery featuring Glynis Tryon, librarian in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in the mid-18th century. Glynis and the newly arrived doctor, a young Jewish woman from New York City, overhear a farmer voice fears for his life to Constable Cullen Stuart. Soon the farmer is fatally poisoned, and Cullen enlists Glynis's aid in talking to the farmer's angry widow, who suggests her husband's murder will be followed by others. Soon three more men have died. Suspicion focuses on Cullen's former deputy, Jacques Sundown, known to be present at each murder site. When he is arrested for the murder of a woman, Glynis, who has a strong attachment to the quiet, younger man now living with his mother's people on the Black Brook reservation, resolves to prove his innocence...this novel includes a section of historical notes at the end, which provide more detail on the names, places and situations mentioned in the story. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.