e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Dyer, David, 1966-
Subjects
Titanic (Steamship) -- Fiction.
Californian (Ship) -- Fiction.
Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean -- Fiction.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Dyer, David, 1966-
by title:
The midnight watch :...
by call number:
FICTION DYE
Search the Web
Dyer, David, 1966-
Titanic (Steamship) -- Fiction.
Californian (Ship) -- Fiction.
Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean -- Fiction.
MARC Display
The
midnight
watch
: a
novel
of the
Titanic
and the
Californian
/ David Dyer.
by
Dyer, David, 1966-
St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Call #:
FICTION DYE
Subjects
Titanic
(Steamship) -- Fiction.
Californian
(Ship) -- Fiction.
Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781250080936 (hc.)
1250080932 (hc.)
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
323 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"First published in Australia by Penguin Australia Pty Ltd."--T.p. verso.
Summary:
"As the
Titanic
and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the
midnight
watch
on the SS
Californian
sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the
Titanic
fired. He alerted the captain, Stanley Lord, who was sleeping in the chartroom below, but Lord did not come to the bridge. Eight rockets were fired during the dark hours of the
midnight
watch
, and eight rockets were ignored. The next morning, the
Titanic
was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. When they learned of the extent of the tragedy, Lord and Stone did everything they could to hide their role in the disaster, but pursued by newspapermen, lawyers, and political leaders in America and England, their terrible secret was eventually revealed. The
Midnight
Watch
is a fictional telling of what may have occurred that night on the SS
Californian
, and the resulting desperation of Officer Stone and Captain Lord in the aftermath of their inaction. Told not only from the perspective of the SS
Californian
crew, but also through the eyes of a family of third-class passengers who perished in the disaster, the narrative is drawn together by Steadman, a tenacious Boston journalist who does not rest until the truth is found. David Dyer's The
Midnight
Watch
is a powerful and dramatic debut novel--the result of many years of research in Liverpool, London, New York, and Boston, and informed by the author's own experiences as a ship's officer and a lawyer."--From publisher.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
First
novel
.
Holds:
1
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Captain William Spry Public Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION DYE
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION DYE
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.