The Killing Breed. A Mystery of Old Philadelphia

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Smart, savvy and solitary, bitter Civil War veteran Wilton McCleary saw the evil heart of man as a captive in the notorious Andersonville Prison. But the war has been over for nearly a decade. Now he walks the beat in Philadelphia as a city detective, protecting a great and growing town in the last years of the nineteenth century, using hard-won skill and courage to fight for justice his own way: alone.