Set in 1912, The Scapegoat propels readers towards a fateful day in a coal miners' strike when distant relatives of the Beulah dynasty, only dimly aware of their blood ties, face off in a dispute that escalates into a frenzy of violence and ends in the slaughter of an innocent man.
- ISBN10 0684188481
- ISBN13 9780684188485
- Publish Date 1 July 1988 (first published 12 September 1980)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 June 1994
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Gale
- Imprint Charles Scribner's Sons
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English