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| Author | William E. Coles, Jr. |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Atheneum Books |
Publication date | 2001 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 272 pp |
| ISBN | 0-689-83181-1 |
| OCLC | 43798298 |
| Preceded by | Another Kind of Monday |
Compass in the Blood is ayoung-adult novel by the American writerWilliam E. Coles, Jr. (1932–2005) set in 1890'sPittsburgh,Pennsylvania.
It tells the story of Dee Armstrong, a freshman journalism student at theUniversity of Pittsburgh, who is inspired to investigate one of the city's most notorious crimes. In 1902Kate Soffel, the wife of the warden of theAllegheny County Jail, conducted an adulterous affair with a prisoner, Ed Biddle, and helped him and his brother Jack in a daring jailbreak.[1][2]
