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Fortune favors the dead : a novel
- Title
- Fortune favors the dead : a novel / Stephen Spotswood.
- Author
- Spotswood, Stephen
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, [2020]
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| 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 20-4023 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 321 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "New York, 1942: Willowjean "Will" Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of private investigator, Lillian Pentecost. Lillian's multiple sclerosis means she can't keep up with her old case load alone, so she wants to hire Will to be her right-hand woman. In return, Will is to receive a salary, room and board, and training in Lillian's very particular art of investigation. Three years later: Will and Lillian are on a case: Abigail Collins was found bludgeoned to death with a crystal ball following a big, boozy Halloween party at her home; her body in the same chair where her steel magnate husband shot himself the year before - in a locked room. The case involves messages from the dead, a seductive spiritualist, and Becca Collins - daughter of the deceased. When Will and Becca start a relationship, Will discovers she may have become the murderer's next target.--Publisher.
- Subject
- Women private investigators > Fiction
- Murder > Investigation > Fiction
- Rich people > Crimes against > Fiction
- Sexual minorities > Fiction
- Nineteen forties > Fiction
- Multiple sclerosis > Patients > Fiction
- People with disabilities > Fiction
- Women private investigators
- Sexual minorities
- Rich people > Crimes against
- People with disabilities
- Nineteen forties
- Murder > Investigation
- Multiple sclerosis > Patients
- New York (N.Y.) > Fiction
- New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Novels.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-4023
- ISBN
- 9780385546553
- 0385546556
- 9780385546560 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020003428
- OCLC
- 1139360950
- Author
- Spotswood, Stephen, author.
- Title
- Fortune favors the dead : a novel / Stephen Spotswood.
- Publisher
- New York : Doubleday, [2020]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Spotswood, Stephen. Fortune favors the dead New York : Doubleday, [2020] 9780385546560 (DLC) 2020003429
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-4023