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A homeless man's burden : she was only nine / Wesley Murphey.
In his sleeping bag on the bank of the McKenzie River, aged and homeless Sam Hostick is dying alone when modern-day fur trapper Shane Coleman pulls up in his drift boat--just in time for Sam to unload the terrible secret he has carried for fifty years.
Record details
- ISBN: 0964132087
- ISBN: 9780964132085
- Physical Description: 306 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: La. Pine, Or. : Lost Creek Books, 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "In August 1960, a little girl was brutally murdered in a Dexter, Oregon bean field. The killer was never found. This murder-mystery novel "A Homeless Man's Burden" by Wesley Murphey is a fast-moving, present-day story taken from the actual murder that occurred during the hey day of pole bean growers all over the Northwest. Murphey, a Dexter kid himself, picked for many years in the actual field where the girl was murdered, and as a teenager he worked for the girl's father."--Amazon. |
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| Subject: | Children > Crimes against > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Oregon > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Oregon authors. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Harney County Library | FIC MURPH (Text) | 37720000468751 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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