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A dangerous business
- Title
- A dangerous business / Jane Smiley.
- Author
- Smiley, Jane
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 23-642 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 207 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "From the beloved 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...'"--
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Prostitutes > California > 19th century > Fiction
- Brothels > Fiction
- Murder > Investigation > Fiction
- Widows > Fiction
- Young women > Crimes against > Fiction
- Brothels
- Murder
- Murder > Investigation
- Prostitutes
- Widows
- Young women > Crimes against
- Sex industry
- Young women
- California > History > 19th century > Fiction
- California
- Genre/Form
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Western fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Note
- "This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-642
- ISBN
- 9780525520337
- 0525520333
- LCCN
- 2022007952
- 40031462478
- OCLC
- 1300755226
- Author
- Smiley, Jane, author.
- Title
- A dangerous business / Jane Smiley.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Creator/Contributor Characteristics
- Californians
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- Online version: Smiley, Jane. Dangerous business. First edition New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022 9780525520344 (DLC) 2022007953
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40031462478
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-642