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The best bad things

Title
The best bad things / Katrina Carrasco.
Author
Carrasco, Katrina, 1983-
Publication
  • New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
  • ©2018

Details

Description
386 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • "A period novel about a female detective who goes undercover (occasionally as a man), to infiltrate a smuggling ring, and navigates shifting allegiances once on the inside" --
  • 1887. Alma Rosales was trained in espionage by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, but dismissed for bad behavior and a penchant for going undercover as a man. She now works for Delphine Beaumond, the mastermind of a West Coast smuggling ring. When product goes missing at their Washington Territory outpost, Alma-- in disguise as dockworker Jack Camp-- muscles her way into the local organization while sending coded dispatches to Pinkerton agents to keep them from closing in. But it's getting harder to keep her cover stories straight and to know whom to trust.... -- adapted from jacket
Subject
  • Women detectives > Fiction
  • Undercover operations > Fiction
  • Opium trade > Fiction
  • Smuggling > Fiction
  • Eighteen eighties > Fiction
  • Eighteen eighties
  • Opium trade
  • Smuggling
  • Undercover operations
  • Women detectives
  • FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical
  • FICTION / Thrillers / Historical
  • FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
  • Washington (State) > Fiction
  • Washington (State)
Genre/Form
  • Historical fiction.
  • Detective and mystery fiction.
  • Fiction.
LCCN
2017057595
OCLC
1019845364
Author
Carrasco, Katrina, 1983- author.
Title
The best bad things / Katrina Carrasco.
Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
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