Jane Smiley A Dangerous Business (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)All Tariffs and Duties included - no additional charges
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Jane Smiley A Dangerous Business (Paperback) (UK IMPORT). Author: Jane Smiley. Topic: Historical Fiction. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. Release Date: 08/10/2023. Format: Paperback. Further DetailsTitle: A Dangerous Business Condition: New Author: Jane Smiley Publisher: Abacus ISBN-10: 0349145466 EAN: 9780349145464 ISBN: 9780349145464 Format: Paperback Release Date: 08/10/2023 Language: English Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 126mm Item Width: 22mm Genre: Fiction Topic: Historical Fiction Description: 'I raced through this murder mystery' Good Housekeeping , 10 Books to Read Right Now! 'Smiley is a masterful writer' Sunday Times 'Outstanding. Her sentences are sublime' Roxane Gay From a brilliant 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 . . .' Item Weight: 200g Release Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
