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The Dead Cry Justice

eBook - A Gilded Age Mystery

Erschienen am 30.11.2021
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ISBN/EAN: 9781496733351
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 304 S.
Auflage: 1. Auflage 2021
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM

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For fans of HBOsThe Gilded Age, explore the dark side of the alluring world of Americas 19th century elite in this gripping series of riveting mysteriesHeiress-turned-sleuth Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter step out of the elite society of Gilded Age New York as they venture into the citys crime ridden streets and most dangerous neighborhoods to search for two missing children . . . THE DEAD CRY JUSTICE May 1890: As NYU Law School finally agrees to admit female law students, Judge MacKenzies daughter Prudence weighs her choices carefully. Chief among her concerns is how her decision would affect the Hunter and MacKenzie Investigative Law agency and her professional and personal relationship with the partner who is currently recuperating from a near fatal shooting. But an even more pressing issue presents itself in the form of a street urchin, whose act of petty theft inadvertently leads Prudence to a badly beaten girl he is protecting. Fearing for the girls life, Prudence rushes her to the Friends Refuge for the Sick Poor, run by the compassionate Charity Sloan. When the boy and girl slip out of their care and run away, Prudence suspects they are fleeing a dangerous predator and is desperate to find them. Aided by the photographer and social reformer Jacob Riis and the famous journalist Nellie Bly, Prudence and Geoffrey scour the tenements and brothels of Five Points. Their only clue is a mysterious doll with an odd resemblance to the missing girl. But as the destitute orphans they encounter whisper the nickname of the killer who stalks themIl diavoloPrudence and Geoffrey must race against time to find the missing children before their merciless enemies do . . .

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