The Indian Drum

"The Indian Drum" by William MacHarg is a novel that unfolds in the early 1900s around the perplexing vanishing of Benjamin Corvet, a ship owner with connections to his business partner, Lawrence Sherrill, and his daughter, Constance, where the past's haunting echoes affect his life. Exploring the weight of the past and the mysteries of identity, the story is set against the panorama of the Great Lakes, rich with Native American stories, where an ominous storm and whispers of an "Indian drum" signal impending doom. Benjamin Corvet is a complicated man, haunted by memories and seemingly destined to confront not only his past but also Alan Conrad, a young man summoned to Chicago by Corvet, whose arrival hints at secrets which could determine both their fates.