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Death's White City — James Sherburne
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Published:
Feb-1988 -
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Print -
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Main Genre:
Historical Mystery -
Time Period:
19th Century 1880's-1890's -
Pages:
363 -
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A girl could get lost in Chicago....
A reporter who freely traded information for ale, Boz Markey knew no newspaper in town would print anything that might drive away the tourists. Besides, disappearing women just weren't news--not in Chicago and not in the 1890s. The times were wild, the city was hot, the bizarre was expected.
But to Paddy Moretti--the Irish-Italian racing reporter for New York's The Spirit of the Times and a man who knew a bit about ale himself--there was one missing female worth finding: Velma LeSeure, a stranger on a train for whom the expression "hourglass figure" must have been coined.
He was supposed to be in town for the big race, though, the American Derby. And there was a man with an ice pick whose job was to see that old Paddy kept his mind on the horses....
A reporter who freely traded information for ale, Boz Markey knew no newspaper in town would print anything that might drive away the tourists. Besides, disappearing women just weren't news--not in Chicago and not in the 1890s. The times were wild, the city was hot, the bizarre was expected.
But to Paddy Moretti--the Irish-Italian racing reporter for New York's The Spirit of the Times and a man who knew a bit about ale himself--there was one missing female worth finding: Velma LeSeure, a stranger on a train for whom the expression "hourglass figure" must have been coined.
He was supposed to be in town for the big race, though, the American Derby. And there was a man with an ice pick whose job was to see that old Paddy kept his mind on the horses....
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