Research Catalog
The dangerous ladies affair
- Title
- The dangerous ladies affair / Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini.
- Author
- Muller, Marcia
- Publication
- New York : Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates book, 2017.
- ©2016
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-1598 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Pronzini, Bill
- Description
- 252 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- For the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, stopping extortionists is not only grand, but excitingly lucrative. When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided attention.The questions her partner John Quincannon has to unravel are not difficult: Wrixton, a wealthy banker, has met his extortionist's first demand, but the order to pay another $5,000 is too much to face. The banker's real problem is something he doesn't want to reveal. That was fine with the detective, and when he was informed that some private letters were involved and Wrixton absolutely needed them back, there was nothing more Quincannon needed in the way of background. As with so many of San Francisco's elite, the bedroom doors never seemed to stay shut. That was the easy part; far more difficult was the matter of the dead courier, murdered most foully in a locked room within a locked room, creating a trail that will take John Quincannon through most of San Francisco's less savory places and end with a riverboat trip that is anything but a relaxing cruise.
- Series Statement
- A Carpenter and Quincannon mystery ; book 5
- Muller, Marcia. Carpenter and Quincannon mystery ; book 5.
- Subjects
- Private investigators
- Extortion
- Carpenter, Sabina > Fiction
- History
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Extortion > Fiction
- California > San Francisco
- San Francisco (Calif.) > Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Private investigators > California > San Francisco > Fiction
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
- Quincannon, John > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- History.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-1598
- ISBN
- 9780765381057
- 0765381052
- LCCN
- 2017288068
- OCLC
- 2017288068
- Author
- Muller, Marcia, author.
- Title
- The dangerous ladies affair / Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini.
- Publisher
- New York : Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates book, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- A Carpenter and Quincannon mystery ; book 5Muller, Marcia. Carpenter and Quincannon mystery ; book 5.
- Added Author
- Pronzini, Bill, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-1598