A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
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Condition
Secondhand
Location
South Africa
Bob Shop ID
615301132
206 Pages, Paperback
23cm x 15cm
Published: 2022
Goodreads Rating: 3.18 * 6,920 ratings * 1,096 reviews
Genres: Historical Fiction/Mystery/Westerns
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand a mystery set in 1850s Gold Rush California, as two young ladies of the night best friends Eliza and Jean 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 financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she cant 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