Robert Broomall's "Murder in the Seventh Cavalry" is a murder mystery in the time of Custer

Sept. 21, 2011 - PRLog -- Camp Hill, PA - Sunbury Press has released Robert Broomall's novel "Murder in the Seventh Cavalry", a murder mystery set in the camp of General George Armstrong Custer near the time of the battle of Little Bighorn.

About the book:
"Fast-paced murder mystery in the camp of General George Armstrong Custer prior to the battle of Little Bighorn. Sure to please history and Western buffs alike." - the Publisher

In December of 1875, George A. Custer hires a detective to solve the killing of a popular Seventh Cavalry officer. Lysander Hughes is a former Texas Ranger and San Francisco policeman. He's also wanted for the murders of four men -- Yankees who killed his fiancée. Lysander goes undercover as an enlisted man, and he encounters a female journalist who is also pursuing the case. Verity Winslow is a woman in a man's profession, and she's got a chip on her shoulder the size of the Black Hills because of it. Driven to make a name for herself, Verity has a mysterious informant who claims to know who killed the officer.

Lysander and Verity mix as well as oil and water, but they are forced to work together to solve the case. They learn that the murdered officer was not as popular as he was purported to be, and that more than one person wanted him dead. They learn that Custer and the Seventh aren't what they're purported to be, either. Custer is a self-obsessed glory hunter, spurred on by his ambitious wife; and the Seventh, far from the elite unit depicted by the press, is filled with men who can barely ride or shoot. When Lysander and Verity start coming up with questions Custer doesn't like, Custer tries to remove them from the case.

That's his first mistake . . .


About the Author:

Robert Broomall has authored a number of previously published novels. Besides writing, his chief interests are history and travel. The idea for Murder in the Seventh came from research he did on Custer for another book. "There's something compelling about Custer and the Seventh," he says. "Once you learn a little bit about the subject, you can't stop." Bob is a U.S. Army veteran and graduate of the University of Maryland. He works as a technical writer at Aberdeen Proving Ground and lives in Bel Air, Maryland, with his wife Sharon.

List Price: $14.95
5.5" x 8.5" (13.97 x 21.59 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
198 pages
Sunbury Press, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1934597705
ISBN-10: 1934597708
BISAC: Fiction / Historical

For more information, please see:
http://www.sunburypress.com/7thcav.html

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