Daniel Plainway: Or The Holiday Haunting of the Moosepath League
by Van Reid
Moosepath League (3), The Moosepath League: Published Order (3), The Moosepath League: Chronological Order (4)
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It is Christmas 1896, in snowy Maine, but holiday cheer eludes country lawyer Daniel Plainway as he contemplates the demise and disappearance of a neighboring family with whom he had shared countless happy times.When Plainway learns that a missing portrait of his friend's daughter has been recovered, he sets out on an odyssey with the ebullient Moosepath League that changes his life and the lives of an orphaned child, a large-hearted ballplayer, and an extraordinary woman he meets along the way.Tags
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Second time reading this book. So good! It has adventure, humor, romance, historical period of 1896 and even a bit of a ghost story. Van Reid has a wonderful cast of characters that rival Dickens, and a sense of pace/plot that will keep you engaged into the wee hours of the morning. Still one of my favorites, and possibly my favorite of the Moosepath League titles.
Daniel Plainway is a Maine country lawyer who is trying to solve the mystery of the disappearance of a neighboring family. When a portrait of his neighbor's daughter is rediscovered, Daniel begins a journey that changes his life. Along the way he meets the members of the Moosepath League and that's when the fun really begins.
Great writing, great story!
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His family has lived in Maine since the eighteenth century, and for the past ten years he has been assistant manager at the Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta. He lives with his wife and children in Edgecomb.
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2000-07-09
- People/Characters
- Tobias Walton; Daniel Plainway; Sundry Moss; Matthew Ephram; Christopher Eagleton; Joseph Thump
- Important places
- Portland, Maine, USA
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3568 .E47697 .D3 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (4.45)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 3
