EAN: 9780349145440

A DANGEROUS BUSINESS - JANE SMILEY KARTONIERT (TB)

From a brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery
set in Gold Rush California  as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey
1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight  Eliza Ripple has been working in a
brothel. It seems like a better life  at least at first. The madam  Mrs. Parks  is kind  the
men are (relatively) well behaved  and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial
security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town  a darkness
descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean  and inspired by
her reading  especially by Edgar Allan Poe's detective Dupin  Eliza pieces together an array of
clues to try to catch the killer  all the while juggling clients who begin to seem more and
more suspicious. Eliza and Jean are determined not just to survive  but to find their way in a
lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West - a bewitching combination of beauty and danger -
as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon. As Mrs. Parks says  'Everyone knows
that this is a dangerous business  but between you and me  being a woman is a dangerous
business  and don't let anyone tell you otherwise . . .'

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