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The Great Maritime Detective

The Exploits and Adventures of the Notorious Peachie Carroll

by (author) Monica Graham

Publisher
Nimbus Publishing
Initial publish date
Apr 2009
Category
Historical
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551097053
    Publish Date
    Apr 2009
    List Price
    $19.95

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He was a sailor a miner, a bounty hunter, a prospector, a ghost hunter, and a railway guard, just to name a few. Whether sinner or saint, Peter Owen Carroll, a.k.a. Peachie Carroll, is best remembered as the infamous Maritime police detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Although his methods were sometimes unscrupulous, and he was often considered a mercenary, Peachie Carroll was a formidable investigator. Peachie was fired, re-hired, and quit many times, but as a police officer Peachie solved some of the Maritimes' best-known crimes, such as the murder of Moncton police officer Joseph E. Stedman. He arrested moonshine-makers and embezzlers, petty thieves, rum-runners, bank robbers, and murderers. In 1896, Peachie gained fame again, solving the New Brunswick murders of Eliza Dutcher and her son.

In The Great Maritime Detective, author Monica Graham profiles this long-standing hero of Pictou County and one of the region's ultimate characters.

About the author

Monica Graham is a freelance writer for newspapers and magazines across the country, including the Halifax Chronicle Herald. A member of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia and the Writers in the Schools program, she is the author of Bluenose, The Great Maritime Detective, and The Historic Town of Pictou. Monica lives near Pictou, Nova Scotia.

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