Rats: Murder in a Mining Town

Rats is set in a western Pennsylvania coal mining community in the early 1920s. The story is a murder mystery that also gives insights into life in the 1920s, especially in a mining town. Billy Hart is the main character. Billy gets caught up in trying to clear his father, th e town's Chief of the Coal and Iron Police, from suspicion of the murder of a mysterious stranger. In his quest, Billy inte...