The Ghosts at Glenn Springs & Other Tales

Ghastly apparitions near a resort community cemetery . . . a gentlemanly tutor's scandalous grand larceny, arrest and inexplicable escape . . . a burglary in which only incidentals are stolen . . . a faceless, snow-covered corpse . . . a dog that points to clandestine doings . . . an undetected crime aboard a passener train . . . strange lights on a Carolina sea island. . . . These and other episodes comprise the first compiled volume of short stories from "The Casebook of MacTavish." Set in late-19th-Century South Carolina, the series follows the adventures of an eccentric young crime reporter who often is a step or three ahead of police in solving crimes and mysteries of his day.Daniel Elton Harmon's characterizations and writing style have been described as a cross between those of Arthur Conan Doyle and Mark Twain—"Sherlock Holmes in South Carolina." The MacTavish "Casebook" serial parellels his original project, "The Harper Chronicles." Volume One of his Harper tales received broad acclaim from mystery fiction reviewers in the United States and The United Kingdom.