[Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries 01] • The Fall of White City
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- Authors
- Wikarski, N.S.
- Publisher
- Northgate Press
- Tags
- series , gilded age , history , thriller , amateur sleuth , historical , chicago , traditional detective , victorian , mystery , women's studies
- Date
- 2002-06-01T07:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.47 MB
- Lang
- en
To solve baffling crimes in turn-of-the-century Chicago, you only need to know a single fact. Bygone sins in the White City cast the longest shadows.
Wealthy spinster Evangeline LeClair leads a paradoxical life. By day, she fends off marriage-minded suitors. By night, she teaches English to factory workers at a social settlement in the slums. Evangeline is quite satisfied with the status quo until murder disrupts her routine. One of her students, a penniless immigrant, has been stabbed to death in Chicago's most exclusive hotel. The girl's brother, a known anarchist, is accused of the crime.
Evangeline wheedles her admirer, Freddie Simpson, into helping her track down the real killer. Their list of possible suspects is long: a captain of industry, a denizen of the slums, a shady doctor who mixes his own drugs, and a teenage prostitute from a sporting house in the Levee District. The gleaming surface of the World's Fair casts many shadows, and THE FALL OF WHITE CITY exposes the darkness at its core.