Cover Copyright ©2003 Trace Edward Zaber

Duty, Honor, Murder
by Pamela Cummings
ISBN: 1-59279-065-8 (Electronic)
ISBN: 1-59279-908-6 (Paperback)

When duty and honor at nineteenth-century West Point Academy collide with murder, it's a who-dun-it that challenges even the Superintendent of the military school—Colonel Robert E. Lee.

When newest instructor, Second Lieutenant Garet Morgan, returns to the military academy three years after graduating from its hallowed halls, he is unprepared for his teaching post to become far more than routine duty. Conducting an outdoor class on the banks of the Hudson River, Morgan and his students find the corpse of engineering professor, Captain Edgwick, floating in icy water. The fact that the unlikable Edgwick had enemies throughout the institution does not help Morgan when he learns his honor is being questioned. He has become the crime's chief suspect. Not even the redoubtable Superintendent, Robert E. Lee, appears close to finding the killer. In an effort to clear his own name, Morgan teams up with an unlikely pair—a fellow-suspect and cadet, and Lee's visiting second cousin, Elizabeth—to solve the mystery.

But Morgan's investigation is about to take an unexpected turn, and it has to do with far more than murder as sparks fly between him and the beautiful, unconventional Elizabeth.

Genres: Historical / Mystery / Detective
Length: Extended Novel (98k words / 278 paperback pages)