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Who wiped out Dr. Harvey Burdell?
Though there are no witnesses and no clues, fingers point to Emma Cunningham, the enhanced, pale-skinned widow who supervised Burdell's house and his servants. Rumored to be always a black-hearted gold digger with designs on the doctor's name and bundle of money, Emma is immediately put under house arrest throughout a murder inspection. A swift conviction is sure to catapult flamboyant region attorney Abraham Oakey Hall in to the mayor's seating. But one formidable obstacle stands in his way: the protection attorney Henry Clinton. Committed to justice and the law, Clinton will help the susceptible widow in her eager fight to save lots of herself from the gallows.
Set in 1857 NY, this gripping puzzle is also a richly thorough excavation of the lost time. Horan vividly re-creates a tumultuous time characterized by a sensationalist press, competitive new riches, a booming real-estate market, corruption, racial conflict, economic inequality between women and men, and the erosion of the old rules of behavior. A tale of murder, gender, greed, and politics, this spellbinding narrative transports visitors to a period that eerily echoes our own.
