A Guide to Fiction Set in North Carolina

Site menu:

Tags


A Note About Searching:

The "Search" box above will only search for the term(s) entered within the section you are currently viewing. If you would like to search the entire blog for a specific term, like a place or character name, click on "Home" in the far right sidebar or "Read North Carolina Novels" on the top of the page and search from there.

Links:

Archives

The Read North Carolina Novels blog is produced and maintained by the staff of the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Meta

Hoke

H. F. S. Moore. Murder Goes Rolling Along. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, and Co., 1942.

Murders involving the medical personnel at Fort Bragg.  No, it’s not the Jeffery MacDonald case.  This is a much more straightforward who-done-it set during World War II.  The plot is standard Crime Club fare, but the atmosphere of the base and the surrounding area are authentically portrayed.

Check this title’s availability in the UNC-Chapel Hill Library catalog.

Posted: September 10th, 2009 under 1940-1949, 1942, Coastal Plain, Cumberland, Hoke, Moore, H. F. S., Mystery.
Comments: none

William P. Singley. Bragg. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006.

Numerous colorful characters populate this book, set at Fort Bragg in the 1950s.  The main character, Lt. Sy Margolin, left a comfortable assignment with NATO to become a paratrooper.  The rigors of training are just part of what he has to contend with.  Anti-Semitism is not much below the surface on base, off base life is wild and woolly, and at times the Army seems to value tradition above all else.  Secondary characters–diverse, sly, fun-loving, evil–round out the picture of Fort Bragg in the period between the Korean War and the start of the Vietnam Conflict.

Check this title’s availability in the UNC-Chapel Hill Library catalog.

Posted: November 26th, 2008 under 2000-, 2006, Coastal Plain, Cumberland, Hoke, Singley, William P..
Comments: 1